Digital BW, The Print

> 
> And we might add, Wilhelm missed this completely. Those inks went
out to 
> the marketplace with his stamp of approval. Hundred year life, I think 
> he said.


I belive that is wrong. Wil wasn't working closely with Epson at that
time. Those were the days when he was testing everything, Lyson, Media
Street, Iris, anything. A lot of Epson's papers he gave horrible
ratings to at that time, and the dye inks like the 1200. His figures
for the 1270 inks on Premium Glossy was 29 years I belive which is the
figure for 450 lux illumination with those dye/hybred inks. Yes, he
missed the ozone problem from airconditioners but look, he started out
testing silver materials and this was something that didn't suffer
from it. None of us knew either until we either experience it or read
his comments. If we want to blame somebody for that we blame Epson. It
was their baby at that point.  I have to give credit to Lyson though.
They started selling their print protective spray in the very
beginning even with the papers they were repackaging from Hahnemuhle.
I think they must have known more about the airborne contaminants.

The Premium Glossy type paper was new then. The inksets were new then.
Everything was new then. No one knew anything, especially Epson. It
wasn't in use for very long before this was revealed, I think less
than a year. I remeber becasue I stared with the Epson 700, then the
1200, the the 1270, the 10K, etc. The inks were changing even faster
then. I'll tell you though compared to the other junk on the market
even now with innovative sounding names, those inks perform
wonderfully for certain purposes. And HP still doen't have an answer
to anything that versatile, ozone or not. 
John