Digital BW, The Print

Rick,

Well said.

> However, Epson
> could lose every member of this list and their support and advocacy  
> and it
> wouldn't even be be a mosquito bite, let alone a bee sting.


Probably so.  If I can borrow a term from the darkroom, "careful"  
printers are probably a niche too small for them to even notice.  At  
first I thought well, then why is Epson so concerned?  But then I  
realized that unfortunately we are getting lumped in with average  
users who have no interest in better quality but who will buy cheaper  
ink.  There are, for instance, refilling outfits.  There is a chain  
of them here.  This must be what Epson's concerned about, where you  
can buy a small printer knockoff cart for about $9 as opposed to $25  
or whatever Epson carts are (it's been a long time since I've bought  
one :  )

There's a very well-written letter to Bush on the QuadtoneRIP list by  
Daniel Jackson which sums up the concerns well.

James

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