Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Bob Frost" 
<bob@f...> wrote:
> Epson works with ink 
> 'engineers', paper 'engineers', and software 'engineers', so that 
all three 
> are matched.
> 
> Bob Frost.
> 


You forgot the hardware engineers in there. All the third parties 
play catch up after the manufacturer's team finishes and releases the 
new products.

The only instance that I would possibly point to where the above 
wasn't true was Epson and their first pigment inks. Third parties had 
these first to market (for Epson printers), as well as other printer 
manufacturers (Encad's GO inks).