Digital BW, The Print

Tyler,

I agree with you and I want to add that we all need to keep in mind 
that manufacturing and marketing quad/hex ink sets and software has a 
very low probability of getting anyone onto Forbes' list of richest 
people on the planet. Folks, this is a very small market at this 
point and very vulnerable to a B&W solution by Epson (might not 
satisfy the hardcore here but would definitely pull buyers out of the 
market.)

So the companies involved are in a real juggling act of how much R&D 
they can afford and I suspect that it is not a great deal.

The other issue is that this is not easy stuff. Making the inks 
and/or developing the software costs money. Any company that survives 
in this market will need good business sense as well as good ink 
technology.

As end users we need to discuss the relative strength and weaknesses 
of all the inks and technologies available to us but we also need to 
keep the not so big "big picture" in view.

Martin Wesley

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Tyler Boley" <tyler@t...> 
wrote:
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Jerry Olson 
<jerryolson@r...> wrote:
> snip
> 
> >...Because of Cone's refusal to release a cool color inkset
> 
> Jerry, I'm wondering why, when Cone doesn't release something on a 
schedule you approve of, you indignantly claim he 
> "refuses". You said the same thing about an EAM profile, here it 
is. Time after time they have said a cool set is in 
> development, rather than refusing. Perhaps they are putting a 
little more into it than sloshing some color ink in there and 
> tossing it out on the market, perhaps there is some other problem. 
In my opinion, it's not going to be as easy as it may 
> seem.
> I'm also wondering how good an idea it is for me to now hit the 
send button...
> Tyler