Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Johnny Deadman <john@p...>
wrote:
> I hear from a normally very reliable source that Epson are working
on a
> dedicated monochrome quadtone printer. No, doesn't make any sense
to me
> either.
> -- 
> John Brownlow

I've heard that too, then also that it will never happen from an
equally reliable source. With Epson, it's all about profit, we 
don't represent a very big market. Recovering the costs of developing
and bringing such a product to market would take 
much longer than Epson is comfortable with. Even after that, how
profitable would such a product really be?
Look at the competition. Did the 2000P bring all the Generations and
other 3rd party ink users back under the Epson fold?  
Not even close, and other alternatives like the Cone color pigments
still still come out under the shadow of the Epson pigs.
Considering the alternative monochrome aproaches we have at this
point, they would be jumping into crowded waters 
with no gaurantees of grabbing the majority of a relatively small
group of users.
So, that's the aurgument against it, from a reliable source. But as I
said, I heard it would happen from a reliable source too, 
quite a while ago.
Tyler