Digital BW, The Print

This remark made me cringe as well and I am English. I just happen to 
live here in California. 

Sierra Gold
--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "islandbuck2" 
<islandbuck@b...> wrote:
> "what you Americans quaintly refer to
> as a shoot out"
> 
> Is this kind of vile sarcasm really necessary on a forum that deals 
> with B&W digital printing?.  I strongly suggest to the moderator of 
> this board to ban all negative cultural remarks and the bigots that 
> wrote them from this forum.  Hate is always a product of ignorance 
> and malice. This forum should not be a vehicle for hatred.  The 
> number one rule for all human beings sould be mutual respect.  My 2 
> cents worth.
> 
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Mark Hahn" 
> <markhahn2000@y...> wrote:
> > 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
> > 
> > ...
> > > 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
> > ...