Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "djon43"
<djon43@...> wrote:

> I do think it's silly to imagine that the opinions of professional
> printers with big machines are nearly as important as the opinions of
> the vast majority of skilled users, who are amateurs or active
> photographers, rather than lab operators. 
> 
> 
> 


What's silly is that if a company has an inkset that is for 7 or 8
channels, that they don't want the opinions of those people with only
6 channel printers like you mentioned earlier. It's a good thing Jon
Cone didn't think this way. It would be all to simple to remove one of
the shades to work in the 6 inks printers. Or even weed it down to 4
shades for those "ancient" 4 color printers, or maybe even an EZ set
for the newer 4 color printers.

But the truth is when testing something new you really do want the
most highly skilled operators doing the testing, else the feedback can
get kind of garbled. Once it goes mass market though, then you need
the opinions of the mass market users too. If it's technically too
challenging for the mass market, then you stand little hope of it
selling very well.