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i was at fry's electronics super store the other day and was looking for a small printer for home use. i finally found one but the sales person told me they are out of that model because epson is going out of business! is this correct or was he smoking his pipe from the wrong end? ;-)

cheerz.
 
rebel99 said:
i was at fry's electronics super store the other day and was looking for a small printer for home use. i finally found one but the sales person told me they are out of that model because epson is going out of business! is this correct or was he smoking his pipe from the wrong end? ;-)

cheerz.
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NO, should not be. Epson should have very profitable products including inks and projectors, and of course, printers too.

Two weeks ago I was phoning their tech support and they promised me to send me an email, however they never did.

By the way, I have several pro printers from them so I got SAT support :-)

@W
 
by the way, Epson used to be the patents leader, so if they really want to sell their business, google and apple must act quickly...
 
buhhahaha

epson going out of business?

made my day really

Epson Ltd. has just release some astonishing new products for the professional market to sweep most of their competedors of their feet.

SureColor SC-F2000

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and more
 
Serhat Abaci said:
buhhahaha

epson going out of business?

made my day really

Epson Ltd. has just release some astonishing new products for the professional market to sweep most of their competedors of their feet.

SureColor SC-F2000

http://global.epson.com/innovation/precisioncore/

and more
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yeah, reminds me of that other pile of rubbish state of the art, 4900 printer, that i paid a lot of $$$ and it is sitting in the box stone dead. it failed to work after a few use ;-) i am so sick of epson and i think the word of mouth is spreading, which will be the demise of epson sooner or later. i am surprised that the owners of 4900 haven't started a class action law suit yet.

cheerz.
 
Serhat Abaci said:
buhhahaha

epson going out of business?

made my day really

Epson Ltd. has just release some astonishing new products for the professional market to sweep most of their competedors of their feet.

SureColor SC-F2000

http://global.epson.com/innovation/precisioncore/

and more
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Nothing "astonishing" about an inferior photo printing technology that sprays dots of ink.

Continuous tone should be the goal for photo printing of high quality. For most consumers ink jets are also a huge waste of money and deliver inferior results. The industry should have kept developing dye-sub technology. A shame.
 
rebel99 said:
i finally found one but the sales person told me they are out of that model because epson is going out of business! is this correct or was he smoking his pipe from the wrong end? ;-)
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Not for nothing, but a lot of salesmen can get a "spiff" (which means a financial consideration) for directing customers towards certain company's offerings. You never want to trust a retail salesman when it comes to who is and isn't "going out of business".
 
Can you recommend a reasonably affordable one to try out. What is more interesting is how inkjet printers have replaced printing presses for so much work.
 
Look up Epson's FY2013 financial report they lost a lot of money, FY2014 ends in March, 2014, so those numbers will be key.

The bottom line is just how many consumer printers does Epson actually sell, nobody knows. I would bet HP sells more consumer printers than Canon or Epson, and mostly likely more Canons are sold than Epsons.



I would say Epson is looking to stay in the commerical printer market and lower it's exposure to the consumer market, and maybe even get out of that just like Lexmark.



I belong to a photography club of 50 memebers and less than 10 print their own prints, the rest use custom labs.





Bob P.
 
One reason casual photographers do not like to print is the high cost of ink and the inconvenience of dealing with small cartridges. Maybe the vendors need to rethink this. Charge a reasonable price for the printer and a reasonable price for the ink. The hidden cost of the ink is not really hidden since everyone who has ever bought a printer gets hit with this immediately.
 
I was one of those people who rarely printed my pictures, mostly for the reasons you gave. Recently, however, I have been printing with a Canon Pro9000 Mk II and I am blown away with the 13x19 prints it makes. Even with the cost of OEM ink and Canon paper, they are FAR cheaper than the commercial labs, and, since jtoolman staightened me out on work flow, they come out matching my screen beautifully. (And easily.) (And no waiting.)

Now, where to put all these luscious prints?
 
Jeff Schewe said:
rebel99 said:
i finally found one but the sales person told me they are out of that model because epson is going out of business! is this correct or was he smoking his pipe from the wrong end? ;-)
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Not for nothing, but a lot of salesmen can get a "spiff" (which means a financial consideration) for directing customers towards certain company's offerings. You never want to trust a retail salesman when it comes to who is and isn't "going out of business".
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Gotta laugh...

You can bet he heard someone say that the printer was an "end of line" model and completely obfuscartaboodled the heck out of that into "Epson is dead, long live the next OEM".

All professionals who understand their trade of course... ;)
 
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Basalite wrote:...

Nothing "astonishing" about an inferior photo printing technology that sprays dots of ink.

Continuous tone should be the goal for photo printing of high quality. For most consumers ink jets are also a huge waste of money and deliver inferior results. The industry should have kept developing dye-sub technology. A shame.
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It's been many years since I had a dye-sub printer, it was OK but I used it only for on-site event printing. It was great for that, but I've never seen a hi-res model.

AFAIK, dye-subs all heat the ink, which sublimates (changes from solid to vapour, then finds it's way to a point on the paper, where it condenses back to solid). So my guess is that they can't get really fine dots because the heat at any particular point/dot is going to leak into adjacent points.

A severe case of 'dot gain'?

Maybe they've found a way to prevent that tho.
 
Basalite said:
Serhat Abaci said:
buhhahaha

epson going out of business?

made my day really

Epson Ltd. has just release some astonishing new products for the professional market to sweep most of their competedors of their feet.

SureColor SC-F2000

http://global.epson.com/innovation/precisioncore/

and more
Click to expand...
Nothing "astonishing" about an inferior photo printing technology that sprays dots of ink.

Continuous tone should be the goal for photo printing of high quality. For most consumers ink jets are also a huge waste of money and deliver inferior results. The industry should have kept developing dye-sub technology. A shame.
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You really must not be serious! Inferior results?

OK Yes I agree that continuous tone should be the goal BUT I seriously believe that the proper inkjet printer in the hands of someone that knows how to print will easily surpass most of the wet prints still out there. Maybe not Ansel's legendary work. Though I am willing to bet that had he still been alive, he would be busy producing masterpieces on Photoshop and printing them on a PRO 3880.

Joe
 
jrkliny said:
One reason casual photographers do not like to print is the high cost of ink and the inconvenience of dealing with small cartridges. Maybe the vendors need to rethink this. Charge a reasonable price for the printer and a reasonable price for the ink. The hidden cost of the ink is not really hidden since everyone who has ever bought a printer gets hit with this immediately.
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It's not even April 1 yet!

I'm sure the Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Fox Business Channel, and others would really love to interview this newsbreaker. Could be a Pulitzer hanging in the balance.

Uh, Epson is not going anywhere.
 
rebel99 said:
i was at fry's electronics super store the other day and was looking for a small printer for home use. i finally found one but the sales person told me they are out of that model because epson is going out of business! is this correct or was he smoking his pipe from the wrong end? ;-)

cheerz.
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I remember around 7 or 8 years ago going into a camera store looking for a Pentax lens and being told they don't carry Pentax any more because they are going out of business.
 
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