Digital BW, The Print

Don't forget the ink needs to be as good as well  ;-)

As I see it the new printers don't offer too much to the B&W guy prepared to
use a RIP like QTR or IJC/OPM EXCEPT the better ink.


> From: john dean <deanwork2003@...>

> 
> Therefore, I can see this board, 3rd party vendors and all the carbon/hybrid
> solutions staying very much alive for a long time, as there will always be
> purists that want more affordable solutions that are less "tainted" by the
> masses. Just think of how many 9600, 7600, and 4000's will be on Ebay
> before
> Xmas!!
> 
> Claude
> 
> That's a very good point. There are so many of those ultrachrome printers out
> there that are ripe for conversion. It seems to me that the way to overcome
> Epson's threatened dominance in high-end monochrome output would be for
> more of us to buy and use bulk inks. I mean buy em by the quarts and gallons.
> These littel 220 ml carts are where our money goes. I can see a stronger
> movement within this growing underground community to purchase our non
> Epson inks in larger and larger quantities. Of course this means easy to use
> and reliable cfs systems that don't clog print heads and/or well designed and
> easily refillable carts with chip reprogrammers.
> 
> John