Digital BW, The Print

It will eventually happen because niche markets always find their place. People still sell platinum and van dyke brown chemestry and gelatin silver paper, view cameras, and Pyro developer and 8x10 and 5x7 black and white film, and how big is the market for that?

But the reason that the big three will not create such a durable and totally versatile inkjet printer of any size is that then they would open up the entire concept that all kinds of inksets, color and black and white, specialty inks, and all kinds of media could be produced by smaller niche companies. And that would certainly take the ball out of their court and into wider arena they couldn't couldn't control. That is what it boils down to.

But it will happen eventually,in some form in some part of the world. When, people actually have money to spend.

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it's also obvious the large multinationals we currently deal with have no interest in that small scale. I can't image they ever will, any solution in the future will probably come from somewhere else, in a better economy.
> Tyler