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Re: [Digital BW] Re: New Printers announced by Epson - Jon??

2005-05-10 by Mark Savoia

Thanks for the input, good points. Hope I sleep better tonight,  
starting to feel like a typesetter.
Mark

On May 10, 2005, at 3:24 PM, piezobw wrote:

> Mark,
>
> As EPSON creates newer printers, each one of course is supposed to  
> be "the
> solution"...  But the standard is very hard to achieve for a  
> company which
> creates printers for a very broad and sometimes general audience.
>
> For example EPSON is just releasing 3 dilutions of black in this  
> generation,
> while InkjetMall is about to release seven true dilutions of one  
> black tone
> in just a few weeks.
>
> If we thought that the best print possible was created with three  
> dilutions
> of ink, we would have followed the trend of current solutions which  
> use warm
> and cool inks in a set. Rather we see the remarkable quality and  
> improvement
> of producing a new Piezography system with 7 dilutions - each  
> printing at the
> same time.
>
> So while personally I think that the new EPSON printers each year  
> are "good
> enough" for an ever increasing percentage of the market...  we go  
> the other
> way, producing a more narrower focus of product which has to be  
> "more than
> better", which has to really satisfy those photographers who  
> believe their
> work should be printed and presented at the highest standard possible.
>
> We look really, at new EPSON printer releases as offering us some
> interesting options to continue making monochromatic ink solutions  
> for.
>
> regards,
>
> Jon Cone
> http://www.piezography.com



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