Digital BW, The Print

CDTobie@... wrote:
> In a message dated 1/15/08 5:41:14 PM, scott_now_coming@... writes:
> 
> 
>> Also, what  find disturbing about this printer is, Wilhelm doesn't list
>> any test results for B&W printing. :>(
>>
> 
> Its not really a printer for the B&W market, its a glossy color printer, to 
> replace the older glossy color printer, the R1800. Its an improvement on the 
> 1800, for the things the 1800 was good at; not a universal solution to the 
> worlds printing needs.
> 
> There is a story about a church looking for a new minister, spending two 
> years interviewing candidates based on criteria that only Christ himself could 
> possibly meet. Once that phase had passed they got down to the business of 
> finding an actual human being to fill the post (sound anything like a Presidential 
> Election?) We tend to treat every new Epson printer release in the same way: we 
> aren't looking for incremental improvement on the previous model in the same 
> line, we are looking for the perfect printer for all uses; and when we don't 
> get it, we're unhappy.
> 
> C. David Tobie

There's another end to that tale where the only candidate 
that passed the test didn't belong to the same religion. To 
keep the analogy going: Epson might call that printer 
evolution, I think it is more marketing creationism.


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Met vriendelijke groeten, Ernst


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