Digital BW, The Print

There is also the price factor-Epson inks will never be reasonably 
priced, that's where they make their money.  The real danger here is 
having one company's inks become the defacto standard by which all 
others are judged. Even if some 3rd party inks are better in some 
respect, (eg lifespan) where Epson inks to be perceived as the only 
acceptable standard for fine art inkjets it could become difficult to 
sell prints made with anything else. I expect that's where Epson is 
going with the 'Archival Certification Program' they announced a few 
months back.

Steve Karafyllakis

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Jim Jasutis" 
<jimj1946@y...> wrote:
> I was reading a forum on the R2400. Someone was speculating that with 
> the new imporved B&W available on that printer, that third party inks 
> would soon become obsolete. My knee jerk reaction was that this is a 
> real possibility. Then I thought further. Even if Epson optomizes the 
> system to make really great prints on their paper, I don't see them 
> ever fine tuning it to all the different fine art papers out there, 
> and since there will more than likely always be a demand for the 
> ability to use a variety of papers, we will prbably need the third 
> party inks to go with them.