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Re: [Digital BW] Re: HP Discontinuing Some Printer Models?

2010-04-11 by Dave

Opinion?
Useless.


On Apr 10, 2010, at 8:09 PM, john wrote:

> Blog?
>
> Well that's a useless amateur gadget website if I ever saw one, I  
> guess he's trying to be funny or something. He sounds like a hobbyist.
>
> That old HP model, not an art printer by any means, has nothing to  
> do with the Z series and is kind of like comparing the first Epson  
> 9000s to the 9900. Having said that it was more successful than what  
> Epson  or Canon offered for the graphics industry at that time. Not  
> even related really to the Z series though, its an apples and  
> oranges comparison and pretty much useless. Big corporations do all  
> kinds of bizarre things, especially Epson, HP, and Microsoft. They  
> all make way too many products that end up as a dead end line.
>
> However, HP did produce the first really permanent high gamut highly  
> stable outdoor pigment inks that were encapsulated with a uv resin.  
> They beat the hell out of Ultrachrome.
>
> j
>
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "ClaytonJ"  
> <cj@...> wrote:
>>
>> Mike Johnston at his T.O.P. blog has just posted, in his usual  
>> entertaining style, an article called "The Trouble with  
>> Recommendations" in which he describes his frustrating experience  
>> with an HP pigment printer and says HP has discontinued it's mid- 
>> line pigment-ink printers and wonders if they are retiring from  
>> that segment of the market.
>>
>> It's a good read, here's the link
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/3xdpm7
>>
>> Regards,
>> Clayton
>>
>>
>> Info on black and white digital printing at
>> http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm
>> I-Trak 2.1   http://www.cjcom.net/itrak.htm
>>
>
>
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