Digital BW, The Print

Paul,

It could very well be that Epson has decided to cut its losses and move toward 
consolidating their efforts into one inkset for the future. Can you image how 
complicated it is going to be for them to keep supporting all these formats of 
all these various inksets ( not to mention the printers parts). They have to not 
only keep the manufacturing system consistent but they have to store and 
ship and keep up with all these inks in markets all over the world. I was 
surprised to see that my local Staples store still has the Photo Stylus 1200 dye 
inks in the store. All these variations have to slow down sometime.

John




--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Roark" <
paul.roark@v...> wrote:
> > www.amazon.com has this statement in the Product Description text for
> > the R1800:
> > 
> > "From the Manufacturer
> > Note: The Epson R1800 is no longer being manufactured. You may want 
to
> > consider purchasing the R800 instead. The R800 offers a lower price but
> > does not support wide-format printing."
> > 
> > Epson might have have huge stocks remaining, of course.
> > 
> 
> Now that is a short product life cycle.  I wonder what the problems are.
> 
> Outback photo noted some profile problems as well as issues with the Glop.
> See http://www.outbackphoto.com/printinginsights/pi033/
Epson_R1800.html
> 
> Perhaps Epson wants to iron out these problems on the smaller printer 
before
> putting more eggs in that technological basket.  From what I've seen of the
> MIS version of glop, I'd move slowly on that front.  I wonder also if the
> smaller dot size is an issue with more clogging or other problems.
> 
> Paul
> www.PaulRoark.com