Digital BW, The Print

> I hear from a normally very reliable source that Epson are working on a
> dedicated monochrome quadtone printer. No, doesn't make any sense to me
> either.
> -- 
> John Brownlow

It makes a perfect sense to me -- but I am surprised it makes sense to Epson
-- unless they finally got a look at the grayscale market and decided it was
bigger than a minor niche.  Someone is going to do it and whoever does will
win a lot of persistent customers, maybe Epson sees that as a way to keep
everyone in the fold?   But, unless it is a very inexpensive printer, I
would think, given printer trends, that it would more likely be a CcMmYKkk
printer -- meaning it would be a standard six color printer with a "black
ink" print mode that really used two extra lighter gray heads with the black
to make a tritone.  Only thing I can think of better would be to make that
printer have a mode that allowed some variable tinting with the color heads
though use of printer sliders.  But now I digress into my wish list....

-- Dan Culbertson
so many years, so little time...