Digital BW, The Print

It is true that HP and Canon would also have the same desire to
control the golden fluids that will run in their machines as well as
Epson does. It's hard for me to imagine that the new competitors in
fine art pigment printing will come out with a machine and say, ok
guys have at it and put other inks in these devices, we don't care,
we're all for ya. But, it does give us an alternative should Epson
become bent on totally destrying the third party markets, especially
the superior black and white ones.

The one thing that I never understood about Epson is how many
different printer models they have to service and how they can
function that way. They must be supplying about 10 different inksets
throughtout the world, and maintaing perfect consistency with them
all. Now that has to be costing them a forture just to keep up with it
all and keep them on the shelves. They just make too many printers,
but it isn't an easy business to keep current in. It seems like
everytime they design a new inkset they have to completely redesign
the printer.

john




--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "dlruckus"
<dlruckus@...> wrote:
>
> Hi.I'm not Keith but have to comment on this.
> 
> Neither Epson nor any other commercial entity (save perhaps public
> utilities by law) have a "right" to recover anything. They exist only
> by the sufferance of the market they serve. When and if the market
> itself decides to do without their products or services they are
> immediately in deep doodoo. Whether it's by way of lousy
> service,monopolistic practices that p'off customers,bad products,a
> change in fashion or just some unfathomable twitch in the ether the
> results are the same. Some other firm will always come along to fill
> the vacumn. Enraging a portion of ones customers is a very unwise
> practice. IMHO
> 
> Regards
> Duane
> 
> 
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "bwinkjet"
> <bwinkjet@> wrote:
> >
>   I 
> > agree it is a thorny issue, but as I said in my initial post Epson, 
> > and now Canon and HP have spent many research and development dollars 
> > providing an amazing technology to us and as such have the right to 
> > recover their costs, no matter what the business model they choose.  
> > In my opinion that is.
> > 
> > Paul Hathaway
> >
>