Digital BW, The Print

In a message dated 9/14/06 10:07:25 AM, bwscans@... writes:


> Well, there may be a real opportunity here for a grayscale inket
> support like those from MIS.
> 

Hmmm... I wonder how long ago it was that I suggested that to HP. The beauty 
of the situation with the HPs is that you can swap inks, and even heads, in a 
jiffy, with no ink loss to speak of. The difficulty with HP in the past was 
that the heads were part of the carts so no one could produce carts without 
violating head patents. Now, with seperate heads, third party carts should be 
straightforward. What is so sad about this is that with new Epson and Canon 
models, you don't need to swap inks for B&W... and HP could have done it that way 
too. But, like the Epson Photo/Matte Black swapping, we can hope for more 
effective solutions in the next generation.

C. David Tobie
Product Technology Manager
ColorVision Business Unit
Datacolor Inc.
CDTobie@...
www.colorvision.com


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