Digital BW, The Print

Thanks everyone for your opinions. It helps and I really value this 
group.

JH

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "lenzzman44" 
<lenzzman44@y...> wrote:
> 
> I've had both refurbs and new. I think there's a lot of merit in a
> general principle: If the original product design was excellent,
> refurbs will usually be as good or better than new and save some
> money. If the original was crap, refurbs are proly supercrap. 
>    Good refurbs undergo more exacting quality control than new units
> (often there never was anything wrong with the unit, just user
> ignorance, etc.). With bad designs, the refurbs are apt to be the
> worst of the bad, and no amount of patching will make them a good
> design. 
>    Only consider refurbs if you really need to save money (and not 
for
> mission critical purposes unless you get several).
>    This list is one of the best places to tell the difference. If
> these folks like and use a unit, it's a goodun.
>    And all generalizations are wrong!
> 
> My <.02 worth.
> Jim