Digital BW, The Print

Unless Epson sells their inks in bulk, they will never capture serious fine
art printers. They want a CHOICE of inks and papers!, and they want their
inks in bulk.

Jerry




Tyler Boley wrote:

> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Johnny Deadman <john@p...>
> wrote:
> > 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
>
> I've heard that too, then also that it will never happen from an
> equally reliable source. With Epson, it's all about profit, we
> don't represent a very big market. Recovering the costs of developing
> and bringing such a product to market would take
> much longer than Epson is comfortable with. Even after that, how
> profitable would such a product really be?
> Look at the competition. Did the 2000P bring all the Generations and
> other 3rd party ink users back under the Epson fold?
> Not even close, and other alternatives like the Cone color pigments
> still still come out under the shadow of the Epson pigs.
> Considering the alternative monochrome aproaches we have at this
> point, they would be jumping into crowded waters
> with no gaurantees of grabbing the majority of a relatively small
> group of users.
> So, that's the aurgument against it, from a reliable source. But as I
> said, I heard it would happen from a reliable source too,
> quite a while ago.
> Tyler
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