Digital BW, The Print

I suspect Epson’s volume and factory experience allow them to make a profit
while still selling to Roland for less than they could do it themselves.
What may become an issue is if the next generation Epson printers have 12
channels.

Best regards,
John Moody

-----Original Message-----
From: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of john dean
Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 11:36 AM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Digital Black & White printer test site.

Does anyone know if the new Rolands and Mimaki's are still using the
Seiko/Epson heads in them? I know they both did a couple of years ago.
The Mimaki had two sets of the Epson 10K heads for 12 channels
available and I assume this is what Roland is now doing with their
model driven by Ergosofts DaVinci.

Epson licenced the heads to them. Epson must have made a conscious
decision not to go for the bigger heavier machines but make money on
the R&D by letting the other outfits use the patented heads. But, I
can't image Roland continue paying them for it forever and not making
their own heads, but who knows.

john





[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]