Digital BW, The Print

Zerox had a brief excursion into the color inkjet market and a 
friend of mine at Zerox stated that their printers were loss leaders 
and the profot was projected on inks. For Epson printers at the 
lower end of the range this is likely also true but not I am sure 
for the $600+ 'prosumer' printers.

If you have an Epson C86 (?) with rebates the printer is free in San 
Diego. That's what killed the Zerox printers, to gain sales they 
rebated printers to such a degree that the printers cost less than 
the replacemnet ink cartriges and sneaky folks were buying complete 
printers, taking out the cartridges as throwing away the printers!!

Seems unfair to consumers for Epson to kill aftermarket inks when 
printers without them struggle to attain reasonable B+W (without a 
RIP). Of course Epsons reply might be to trash one's 2200 and buy a 
2400!

Regards

Martin



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Steve Kale 
<stevekale@b...> wrote:
> When I was at Photoplus last year the Epson guys said they only 
broke even
> on the hardware.