[Leica] OT Epson P5000

[abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge)]

It's good to know that the herd mentality is working in areas other
than the stock and mortgage markets! :)

I wonder if two issues aren't in play here: comfort zone and software.
If you're using a RIP like ImagePrint then to change to either another
RIP or repurchase a new version for the new printer looks awfully
expensive and you'd better see a darn good improvement on print
quality/productiving in order to justify the expenditure. Sorta the
Windows to Mac issues. Plus all the workarounds for the existing
Epsons are known / understood while the HP or Canon would be a
substantial learning curve.

Still, I find the "everyone who's serious is only using Epson" (given
the massive defect in Epson's design - the lack of both photo black
and matte black inks available at the same time in their large format
printers) hasn't seen the new HP's much less printed on them. HP
doesn't make it easy to find vendors selling them, though. Geesh. Talk
about lack of sophistication!

Adam

>
> I think the people producing images in the galleries and museums and
> collected by serious collectors are not shopping around for HP's and Canons
> at all. And I think its rare to see stuff up there produced by HP's and
> Canons at all. Less than one percent. If that.
>
> When you do have a gallery opening and it's an HP or Canon print you've got
> the HP or Canon marketing people there because they're the ones who've been
> giving the photographer all his paper and printers. And girls with swimming
> pools and helicopter rides.
> And walks in the park and rides in the car.
> But that's if they were bribing my dog. Who didn't print.
> Paw prints that's it. With real organic mud.
>
>
>
> I thought when people sit around talking serious inkjet printing its an
> Epson conversation. I don't think anybody's all that interest what HP and
> Canon is about to do. Except website people like Luminous LightJet.
> Landscape.
>
> Mark William Rabiner
> Harlem, NY