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Subject: [Leica] PAW 32 - Possibly not one for Ted ;-)
From: hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (G Hopkinson)
Date: Sat Sep 9 21:37:03 2006

B.D. as you say the (relatively) moderately priced models are regularly 
replaced by many.
I think one consideration is whether enthusiast "fine art" folk take them on 
in quantity and they start to develop specialised inks,
RIPS, curves profiles etc etc. Right now Epson have that world stitched up.
The HP does sound promising from what I've read. The competition has to be a 
good thing too.

Cheers
Hoppy

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org 
[mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
B. D. Colen
Sent: Sunday, 10 September 2006 04:16
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] PAW 32 - Possibly not one for Ted ;-)

It is in fact being advertised at this point, Don. I don't think there's any
question it's coming, and I don't really give a rat's butt whether or not it
makes a dent in the Epson base - I don't own HP stock, I'm just looking for
the best printer for the money. But that aside, we're not talking about
something like an established camera user base, where people have thousands
and thousands invested in  a lens system. We're talking about a printer, and
people replace printers at the drop of a hat, especially when we're talking
about the $600-900 printer market, not the multi-thousand oversize printer
market.


On 9/8/06 9:53 PM, "Don Dory" <don.dory@gmail.com> wrote:

> B.D.
> HP has been promising and promising.  I hope they will pull an AMD but 
> won't
> hold my breath.  The installed base for Epson is huge and the results are
> extremely good.  Now, if the ink prices were a lot more reasonable then I
> think that interesting market share shifts might happen.
> 
> Don
> don.dory@gmail.com
> 
> 
> On 9/8/06, B. D. Colen <bd@bdcolenphoto.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Me, I'm waiting for the HP B9180, which previews suggest will blow the
>> 2400
>> away....Due any day now...
>> 
>> 
>> On 9/8/06 8:46 PM, "G Hopkinson" <hoppyman@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
>> 
>>> Peter, that's a whole other thread right there.
>>> I'm saving for the Epson 2400
>>> 
>>> Cheers
>>> Hoppy
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org
>>> [mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf
>> Of
>>> Peter Dzwig
>>> Sent: Saturday, 9 September 2006 09:39
>>> To: Leica Users Group
>>> Subject: Re: [Leica] PAW 32 - Possibly not one for Ted ;-)
>>> 
>>> Thanks Hoppy, glad that you like it. I have one or two prints that I
>> made with
>>> existing kit and they set me wondering about new printers... ;-)
>>> 
>>> Peter
>>> 



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