Digital BW, The Print

Kodak has announced printers with much less expensive ink and greater
volume cartridges than their competition.  Kodak's site here
<http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier.jhtml?pq-path=2/3/9/1441/10580&p\
q-locale=en_US&_requestid=7865>   and USA Today article here
<http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/2007-02-06-kodak-printer_x.htm?cs\
p=34>  .

  Kodak is doing well in the consumer point-and-shoot camera space, but
they are barely on the radar for printing.   It looks like they are
trying to stir up the market by addressing customer discontent with the
leading printer makers' expensive OEM replacment inks.

Given Kodak's impressive history of innovation in the imaging realm, I
am befuddled how they have simply allowed the transition from film to
electronic imaging pass them by.  I wonder how good these printers will
be and if they might work for fine art B&W printing?

I wonder if this is the first shot in a battle over super cheap printers
and expensive inks?



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Brian Smokler wrote:
> Kodak has announced printers with much less expensive ink and greater
> volume cartridges than their competition.  Kodak's site here
> <http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier.jhtml?pq-path=2/3/9/1441/10580&p\
> q-locale=en_US&_requestid=7865>   and USA Today article here
> <http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/2007-02-06-kodak-printer_x.htm?cs\
> p=34>  .
> 
>   Kodak is doing well in the consumer point-and-shoot camera space, but
> they are barely on the radar for printing.   It looks like they are
> trying to stir up the market by addressing customer discontent with the
> leading printer makers' expensive OEM replacment inks.
> 
> Given Kodak's impressive history of innovation in the imaging realm, I
> am befuddled how they have simply allowed the transition from film to
> electronic imaging pass them by.  I wonder how good these printers will
> be and if they might work for fine art B&W printing?
> 
> I wonder if this is the first shot in a battle over super cheap printers
> and expensive inks?

We have had more Kodak truths in inkjet printing like their 
fade resistance measuring system that was a fake. Wonder why 
they didn't go for separate ink carts per color if their goal 
was a reduction of ink costs for the customer. That isn't 
solved by increasing the cart contents . It isn't an 
environmental friendly method either. The big inkjet 
manufacturers switch to separate tanks more and more.


Met vriendelijke groeten, Ernst

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