Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Tyler Boley" 
> (witness PressReady) I suspect Epson has no inclination to provide a
> solution that would hamper sales of more expensive solutions from
> people with whom they have productive business relations.
> 
Epson had better look over their shoulders. They have practically
abandonned the graphic office printer to HP to concentrate on photo
printers. But now HP is making inroads into that market with printers
like the HP 8450 which is at least the equal of the Epson R800 in
color printing and outprints it when it comes to b&w.

If HP were ever to bring out A3+ and A2 versions of that printer, my
guess is that Epson sales charts would look like that of a bad stock
hammered by short sellers. HP started a trend with the discontinued(?)
HP 7960 and now it only needs third party paper and ink support. 

André