Digital BW, The Print

I see, 

So if we just made metric cars, we could sell them in Japan, India, and
Great Britain?
A 50 cm US TV would be just right for Europe?

I'm afraid your view is a bit naive. There are lots of changes a company
must make to sell a product in a different country/culture. Measurements are
a minor variant. 

-Stephen
 www.sbillard.org/Stephen


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hogarth Hughes [mailto:hogarth@...] 
> Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 11:44 AM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Re: OT - U.S vs. Europe paper sizes???
> 
> 
> Why should we Americans change? Because the whole cost of maintaining 
> dual systems around the world is paid by us. Think about it. If the 
> Japanese have to make things in a size just for us, to accomodate us, 
> they can't sell it outside of the US market. No one else in the world 
> wants it. So we have to pay for all the R&D for the US 
> version. We have 
> to pay for the second inventory for the US version. No 
> economy of scale.
> 
> People making screws and nuts and bolts in this country have 
> to make two 
> sets. The "American" sizes can't be sold outside the USA. The metric 
> ones have a world market. That means that Americans pay the 
> whole cost 
> for tooling for the American sizes. No one else want's the 
> damn things. 
> That's why you can't buy a car today that isn't metric. GM 
> went metric 
> long ago to get out of this very problem.
> 
> Our costs are already up because of this. We should change, 
> to get our 
> costs back down. To make our goods more competitive around 
> the world. So 
> we don't have to make two versions of everything.
> 
> That said, I do everything in metric that I can. But I can't 
> find anyone 
> who will sell me Hahnemuhle Photo Rag in 60cm or 110cm wide rolls...
> 
>