Digital BW, The Print

Dan, its already here. MIS hextone inks and Paul Roark's curves!  No need now
for Cone OR epson to
come out with cold inks, or in Epson's case, quad or Hex inks.  Unless they are
available in bulk, who cares? And Epson would never sell their ink in bulk!

Jer


Dan Culbertson 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
>
> 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...
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