Digital BW, The Print

one flaw in your main point is that you seem to be assuming that we 
are going to be sticking with whatever system we already have 
forever, but these printers break, CFSs clog etc. etc. and for one 
reason or another we will be going from one system to another quite 
often.  I'm still trying to get my 1160 back online, but if I can't 
do that I'm certainly not going pay a lot of money to fix it and even 
if I replace it with a 1280 I have to reassess my inkset selection 
etc. etc. as well as consider other printers.  So information on 
other systems is useful, even if it doesn't drive me to immediately 
scrap what I have now.

Mark

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> But just what would you learn?
> I mean to say if you liked the Piezo in preference to the other 
samples,
> would you dump all your current consumables and buy the Cone 
product. A
> costly business, especially if having done the swop, you found you 
gained
> nothing extra printing your own work.
> 
>  Then again just what does (what you Americans quaintly refer to 
as "a shoot
> out") really prove? Little or nothing except on that particular day 
printing
> those particular subjects a panel with a particular set of 
preferences chose
> one particular suppliers samples.
> 
> Next month another panel could well chose somebody else's.
> Another month and somebody else gets the nod and so on and so on.
> 
> Come sir, if you like what you are currently producing be satisfied 
and stay
> away from Pandoras box.
> 
> Richard
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