Digital BW, The Print

> You'd think Epson would catch on.  Almost everyone that has ever 
>seen an official Epson b&w display print talks about how bad it is.  
>They don't seem to care.  On the other hand, they sell plenty of 
>printers anyway.  So why do they bother?  

I don't know about the other countries, but at least here in Germany 
their reputation is not the best. People complain about clogged 
printheads and anyway, most people here are Canon crazy, whether its 
cameras or printers or anything: I guess Canon could go and sell 
bread and people would run to get it and tell everyone that its so 
amazingly good...

For those who want to get superior and archival print quality at a 
reasonable price (third party solutions) Epson is still the only 
choice, and for excellent B&W there are no archival OEM solutions 
anyway, with Epson or other manufacturers.
In Germany I can understand that, because noone or very few people 
are looking for such solutions, so why should they bother? And those 
who do go for Lyson, because they sell their stuff at least in 
Germany, MIS or Piezo dont.

regards Bernie