Digital BW, The Print

on 8/19/01 6:10 PM, Dan Culbertson 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
> 
> It makes a perfect sense to me -- but I am surprised it makes sense to Epson
> -- unless they finally got a look at the grayscale market and decided it was
> bigger than a minor niche.  Someone is going to do it and whoever does will
> win a lot of persistent customers, maybe Epson sees that as a way to keep
> everyone in the fold?   But, unless it is a very inexpensive printer, I
> would think, given printer trends, that it would more likely be a CcMmYKkk
> printer -- meaning it would be a standard six color printer with a "black
> ink" print mode that really used two extra lighter gray heads with the black
> to make a tritone.  Only thing I can think of better would be to make that
> printer have a mode that allowed some variable tinting with the color heads
> though use of printer sliders.  But now I digress into my wish list....

It could even allow for a couple of chambers for an epoxy style varnish to
be applied on the fly. Epoxy style, meaning each component on it's own
wouldn't harden (and clog the crap out of your heads) but when mixed on the
paper, they'd form a nice bond....

Todd