Digital BW, The Print

Hi André,

Regarding third party inks, I say "amen to that". The HP ink costs were savage with the 7xxx printers, and I guess they will be just as bad with the new one too. Because these are dye-based printers there is a big incentive to use the preferred media because of concerns about longevity. These two factors combined were enough to put me off the 7960, even though the output looked great.

-= mike =-

-----Original Message-----
From: Andre 
Sent: 19 October 2004 18:19
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Digital BW] Re: R800, Ernst



--- 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

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