Digital BW, The Print

I wrote to colorbyte last week and requested they consider a B&W only 
version.  No response (yet).

There's really no concrete way of knowing how many people would be 
interested in a B&W-only version.  But, as Epson's canned color 
profiles get better and better (witness the R800 and the 4000), the 
other primary benefit of IP for me -- the library of color profiles --
 begins to wane in importance.  (In fact, I was never really blown 
away by the difference between IP's color profiles and Epson's on the 
2200 -- there was a difference, but not nearly as significant as for 
B&W.).  Given that, the price of IP is a LOT to pay for IP's B&W 
ability.

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Tom Baker 
<tbaker1328@s...> wrote:
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> mainstay of their business as the small B&W market segment...."
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> That's certainly true.  As far as I know they don't make a b&w only 
product.  A b&w IP version probably wouldn't make any business 
sense.  However, It would be interesting to find out how much people 
would 'willingly' pay for a stripped down, b&w only version.
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