Digital BW, The Print

Robert,

It is strictly a "check the box" type set up but there is a selection for
"Other Epson". When I redo it I will probably add the 870 and 890 to the
other 800 series Epsons. There doesn't seem to be large interest in the
smaller format printers but it is there.

A lot of people have cast their "votes" and as it now stands the three most
popular printers are the 1160, 1280/90 and the 2200 which comes as no
surprise. Roughly 65 - 70% of the members are using desktop printers and 6%
have wide format printers. Keep in mind there is overlap given the way the
poll is set up. This confirms my suspicion that companies like Ergosoft are
ignoring the major portion of the quad printing market in favor of a tiny
segment.

Obviously there is more cash to be generated and less work expended selling
6 copies of a $1500 - $2000 program than 70 copies of a $150-$500 program.
The "service bureau" or print foundry houses can recoup the cost of the
printers and software in a reasonably small number of jobs. So the high end
software will remain a nice niche market but not something of interest for
the majority of us here.

Martin Wesley


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Morrison" <rmorrison@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 10:56 AM
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re: Printer Poll


> Martin,
>
> Its been a while since I've set up a poll for the Archival color
group...but
> does the yahoo software allow fill in the blank entries for an other
> category?  At the very least you have an other category now...so that
> developers would at least know what percentage of users don't fit into
these
> options...my guess is that it is probably relatively few...right now only
2
> users (1%).
>
> Robert
>
>  6/12/03 10:29 AM, "Martin Wesley" <mwesley250@...> wrote:
>
> > Clayton, Richard,
> >
> > Basically we ran out of spaces. Yahoo only allows 25. If I change
anything
> > in the poll at this point, we would lose the votes of the ~450 people
who
> > already voted and have to start voting from scratch. I think I will let
this
> > poll run awhile longer, close it and start a new one that includes more
> > printers. Apologies.
> >
> > Martin
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Richard Vanek" <richard.vanek@...>
> > To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 6:39 AM
> > Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Printer Poll
> >
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I am running 890 also no selection for that :-)
> >>
> >> -richo-
> >>
> >> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Clayton Jones"
> >> <cj@c...> wrote:
> >>> Hello Martin,
> >>>
> >>>> We started a running poll as to which models of printers are in use
> >>> for B&W printing by the members. Only about 350 of the 2900 members
> >>> have participated so far. If you haven't "voted" or the printer you
> >>> are now using has changed, then please go to the polls section of
> >> the
> >>> home page and let us know what you are printing with.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> I use an 870 but there's no selection for that....
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>> Clayton
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Info on black and white digital printing at
> >>> http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm
> >>
> >>
> >>
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