Digital BW, The Print

djon43 wrote:
> I don't know what's "wiser" for HP...they design and
> price for marketing reasons...I doubt it costs 5X (FIVE TIMES!) to
> make a $3500 Z3100 Vs a $700 9180. 

It's 3.5 times wider, has an eye one spectrometer aboard for 
calibration and profiling etc, 12 ink channels instead of 8 
and ink is 60% lower in price (ML) compared to a B9180. 
Buy a secondhand Epson 9000 if they still exist and you get 
a nice recycling premium from HP too. Seems the ads didn't 
give enough information. With that price I still doubt that 
it generates enough money for HP on the hardware and the ink 
price per ML from all 3 manufacturers is the same per cart 
size = competing model.

I doubt there's a market for a B9180 with 12 channels and a 
spectrometer, it will be 3-4 times the price of a normal 
B9180. That's why I think they need a 17" that is a hybrid 
between the two models.


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Met vriendelijke groeten, Ernst


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