Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/08/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Mark, what you say may well be true but I have a Canon S9000 which is long in the tooth now and a HP Designjet 130 for huge prints. I am pretty happy with both actually. Epson will need to produce something spectacularly better than what I have to make me change. They haven't done yet as far as I can ascertain. Frank On 22 Aug, 2007, at 09:04, Mark Rabiner wrote: >> I had poor response from Epson when I had troubles with my 1270 >> flooding black ink inside the printer when doing its head clean. I >> replaced it with a Canon which is 5 times faster and has been >> faultless. I probably shan't buy another Epson printer. They -do- >> have the marketing high ground though. >> Frank >> >> On 22 Aug, 2007, at 03:44, Adam Bridge wrote: >> > Frank they totally dominate the fine art serious print and commercial > photographers who wish to look like that market for good reason. > HP and Canon have marketing resources which I'd think over shadow > Epson's > many times over. > What Epson has it a PRODUCT which overshadows HP's and Canons. > You had some bad luck early on. Epson has not waited around for > others to > catch up they still forge ahead and lead by at least the results > they get > from their R&D. Canon's speed lead for what its worth has > diminished as > Epson I think is catching or has caught up speed wise. And that's non > pigment ink printing anyway. > What I'm saying is Epson's printers improve each year faster than > the other > guys. And every year the boxes get easier to open up and get the > printers > going. > What the other guys have done over the past years is almost put > themselves > in the ball game. > > Mark William Rabiner > Harlem, NY > > rabinergroup.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information