Digital BW, The Print

On Apr 15, 2009, at 3:50 PM, Ernst Dinkla wrote:

> Lots of ideas have been uttered by others on the lists like this and
> some of them have been picked up by smaller companies and by big ones.
> If we all should think that the idea has commercial potential and we
> shouldn't talk about it and put it in the drawer for ever then we are
> halting progress. If Paul Roark wasn't so eager to explore the  
> countless
> ways to mix black pigments this list would have lost 50% of its  
> content.
> And Paul picked up suggestions, advice from others on this list and  
> the
> Leben list before that. That MIS made most of the money on the work  
> Paul
> did is how our society works but both forces brought Digital B&W
> printing many steps further. It keeps MIS and its employees busy,  
> keeps
> competition alert, Paul enjoys it and we all benefit in a way.

Paul's relationship with MIS was rather unique in my experience. There  
are other cases of people developing for love, so to speak (the  
meaning of amateur), and getting the results produced for  
availability, but its not the standard, or even a common, method.

C. David Tobie
Global Product Technology Manager
Digital Imaging & Home Theater
CDTobie@...


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