Digital BW, The Print

Therefore, I can see this board, 3rd party vendors and all the carbon/hybrid
solutions staying very much alive for a long time, as there will always be
purists that want more affordable solutions that are less "tainted" by the
masses. Just think of how many 9600, 7600, and 4000's will be on Ebay 
before
Xmas!!

Claude

That's a very good point. There are so many of those ultrachrome printers out 
there that are ripe for conversion. It seems to me that the way to overcome 
Epson's threatened dominance in high-end monochrome output would be for 
more of us to buy and use bulk inks. I mean buy em by the quarts and gallons. 
These littel 220 ml carts are where our money goes. I can see a stronger 
movement within this growing underground community to purchase our non 
Epson inks in larger and larger quantities. Of course this means easy to use 
and reliable cfs systems that don't clog print heads and/or well designed and 
easily refillable carts with chip reprogrammers. 

John