Digital BW, The Print

Mike -

That's about what I've been experiencing. It's great.

I think Cone would be smart to open up piezo and start actively 
supporting other inks. He might be surprised at how much his total 
business would grow. I accept that it made sense for him to want 
controlled conditions when he was developing it... And then he wanted 
to milk it as long as he could... At some point (we're past it), he 
would be better off going for more volume and to attempt to be 
mainstream to fend off becoming marginalized and passed over. We all 
know that in technology, you can't rest on your laurels (great though 
his are) and expect to survive...a lot of people are putting a lot of 
brainpower on this issue...

Tom O'Connell

TomOC@...
www.thomasoconnell.com


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Michael Kravit" 
<michael.kravit@w...> wrote:
> Tom,
> 
> Case in point....
> 
> I have not run a cleaning cycle in 4 weeks with the MIS FS inks. I 
guess that even if I had to run a cleaning cycle once a week I would 
not complain.
> 
> Mike
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: tomoc 
>   To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y... 
>   Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 11:19 AM
>   Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Piezography Clogging Issues
> 
> 
>   Mike-
> 
>   I believe that the count of only 30 very vocal people is true. 
After 
>   all, what's the point of being vocal about it <g>... There IS a 
>   solution... Just switch to FS ink and continue to use the 
driver... 
>   Now THAT would be a large group <g>.
> 
>   I'm sitting here looking a an unused set of Piezo carts, dying to 
put 
>   them in the second 1160 and do side by side printing with the FS 
inks 
>   just to satisfy myself that I am not giving up anything... but 
you 
>   know, I just don't want to take the chance of having another 6 
week 
>   clog-a-thon to get the printer back to scratch. I'll freely admit 
the 
>   problem is with me or my printers, since Jon is sure it isn't the 
>   ink... I flat don't care what it is, I don't want to waste time 
>   dealing with clogs...but I'll never be vocal about it <vbg>.
> 
>   Tom O'Connell
> 
>   TomOC@y...
>   www.thomasoconnell.com
> 
> 
>   --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Michael Kravit" 
>   <michael.kravit@w...> wrote:
>   > I have thought very hard about posting this message, but in a 
>   effort to share my information in a positive and accurate manner 
here 
>   goes.
>   > 
>   > It has been said by a certain group that there are only about 
30 
>   very vocal individuals having clogging, greenies, and various 
outher 
>   issues with Piezo inks. Well folks, this week I attended 
FotoFusion 
>   in Delray Beach, Florida. I heard story after story of clogged 
>   printers, green prints, damaged printers, CIS units not working 
with 
>   these inks, etc. So I started to take count the stories. ALl I 
will 
>   say is that the number of people that have had problems or 
>   know "someone" that has problems is mind boggling. I guess that 
when 
>   stating that there are only 30 people with problems, the power of 
3 
>   was left off.
>   > 
>   > One think that I was told, and this is only third party info, 
is 
>   that Epson is working on 8 and 16 color printers that will be 
capable 
>   of producing pigmented neutral grayscale images with no color 
cast, 
>   shift, or crossover. Oh, won't life be grand! ;-)
>   > 
>   > Mike
>   > 
>   > 
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> 
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