Digital BW, The Print

Lyson is a pretty big outfit in England and from what I can gather is
primarily in the solvent ink business for the textile industry. Their
Chicago outfit was like you say,  a small marketing division.
john



> It wouldn't surprise me if Lyson COULDN'T pay for Wilhelm.  During  
> the time that their Cave Paints were killing my 7600, I had so many  
> converations with them that I was on first name basis with them.   
> (And I have to give them credit for really doing everything they  
> could.  I can't fault their efforts to try to help.)  But the  
> impression I got was that they were basically two guys in a suite in  
> an industrial park.  This was the US office.  At any given time one  
> or both of them were out of the office, and there was no one else to  
> talk to.  Maybe their UK headquarters is a bigger concern, but it is  
> hard for me to picture Lyson, at least from my US experience, as  
> being a big enough player to afford Wilhelm testing all their  
> products. Actually, that's all Oriental was, too.  I once drove up  
> from San Diego to Irvine to pick up their VC printing head from  
> Oriental, and it was just that- a couple of guys in an industrial  
> park, one of whom was Al Belson, now also passed on.  And it wasn't  
> too many years after that that Oriental was gone.
> 
> James Irelan
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