Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Barry Kelsall" 
<bktimes@y...> wrote:
> > The analogy with old English cars goes much too far.

That's because you're missing the point of the analogy!

I'm not comparing cars to inkjet printers.  I'm comparing their 
USERS.

I'm saying the what motivates someone to tinker with vintage sports 
cars is the same thing that motivates someone to like to play around 
with all sorts of different inks, drivers, papers, profiling 
software, RIPS, separate printers for color and black and white, 
etc.   They are both "enthusiast" cultures -  collections of 
(mainly) guys who like the process of tinkering and experimenting 
and using arcane, esoteric language. 

My guess is that if Canon or Epson ever DID come up with a decent 
out-of-the-box b+w printing solution it wouldn't change anything 
that most people here do.   They would still be tinkering with this 
stuff just like ham radio operators, despite telephones and the 
Internet, still like to score QSL's from all continents with a 10W 
QRP rig on 20M with a 3 element Yagi.