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[Digital BW] Re: New graduated black inks -Blue wool ratings

2007-03-03 by koloshor

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, CDTobie@... wrote:
>
> 
> In a message dated 3/3/07 9:17:55 AM, failedthespian@... writes:
> 
> 
> > My contention is that many organisations use WIR to give them a
level of
> > credibility that they often don't deserve.
> > 
> 
> Unfortunately very shady companies have used that same claim and
logic for 
> prefering Blue Wool over Wilhelm in the past, and the result has
been inksets 
> that were claimed to be very long-lived via the Blue Wook standard,
which were 
> extremely short-lived in reality. At least with the Wilhelm failures
we know 
> exactly what went wrong. If you are looking for legitimacy in the
inkjet market, 
> you will need to use the same types of testing the big players
(Epson, HP) 
> use, not those that the fly-by-nights (I'll avoid inserting a list
here <G>) 
> use, no matter what your personal opinions of the various test
methods may be; 
> its not yourself you need to convince.
 

Wow, arch enemies C. David Tobie and Joseph S. Wisniewski in complete
and total agreement on this one.

Ciao!

Joe

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