Digital BW, The Print

If you consider that a lot of those users are schools and labs then the 
market saturation is pretty good and probably better than Jon expected 
to do in two years.  Especially if you consider that originally it was 
only available for the $1500 epson 3000.

It was not really priced for the "average inkjet consumer" and that was 
never the original intent. 


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Martin Wesley" <
mwesley250@e...> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Austin Franklin" <darkroom@i...>
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2003 6:41 PM
> Subject: RE: [Digital BW] Epson v Canon
> 
> 
> >
> > > Only a few thousand copies of the R9/Piezo plug-in
> > > have been sold.
> >
> > Er, didn't Jon just say 4,000+?
> >
> Austin,
> 
> That is about what I thought, with the "+" being the versions sold as the R9
> plugin, maybe somewhere around 5000. Considering the size of the  market it
> seems like a tiny amount. Although at a questimated average price of $200
> per copy that is $1,000,000. Still that's spread over 4(?) years and two
> companies. Nice cash flow for a small company but not much to an Epson or
> Canon.
> 
> Martin