Digital BW, The Print

There are two companies that I never saw any interest in discussing what "we" thought about what they sold us, one was Kodak ( Weston in the 1940's withstanding) and the other is Epson.

Oddly enough a couple of years ago at Photo Expo in Ny we were shocked to find out that HP had brought their Spanish and German engineers to Ny to talk to people like us about what we thought about what they were doing.??? They even asked our opinions about what else we might need that they didn't provide in this first model. We were shocked. And from an outfit like HP to boot! Will this continue? I sincerely doubt it but it was the first time I ever saw an engineer in one of those booths other than the Studio Print guys and Cone. 

But Bill is right on. Why don't they? When we walked over to the Epson booth that same day and asked when they were going to offer auto switching between MK an PK without flushing and wasting tons of ink, they were laughing at us and commented don't hold your breath pal, it's not a priority. Course they did it when everyone else was eclipsing them. They knew what we wanted, they didn't care. No, we didn't see any engineers around the Epson booth that year. And, we never will.

john