Roland 8 Color
Roland 8 Color
- Subject: Roland 8 Color
- From: "DuWayne Comcast" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 00:00:19 -0400
The Roland released 6 color hexachome printing over 5 years long before most
of us knew what a profile was. The 8 hexachome with variable droplet machine
FJ-400 a few years later. There has always been a profile package from day
one that could build both 6 color and 8 color hexachrome profiles them called
Colorcal for $700. This was years before anyone else could deal with orange
and green, much less 8 colors. Monaco has been able to generate 8 color hex
profiles for a while now and just last month Gretag can generate an 8 color
profile.
Epson can build a good print head, they just have no idea what to with it.
Roland was first with pigment ink, the first hexachrome, Roland was first with
variable droplet. If you add postscript into the game, Roland gave you a free
adobe postscript rip. Epson was so clueless about postscript they had use
Brimy Graphics PS rip for the first few years, because their's didn't work.
Then Epson had to use EFI to build a rip, we all know how well that works.
Epson didn't even build their own plotters, they had to have Mutoh do it.
Epson just copies everyone else's ideas, they are to busy screwing customers
with service calls to change sponges/empty ink, putting chips in the
cartridges, giving you faulty inksets, making silly claims about long life
under glass, and giving you a crappy driver that even Bill Atkins couldn't
untangle after millions of measurements. Epson leaves no profit to their
dealer channel, so they are not will to help customers very much. Epson sends
the air conditioning repairman to fix your plotter when its broke. It usually
takes about two weeks or more by the time they make 3 trips and get the
parts.
Roland has never changed their inkset in 8 years, given customers the ability
to empty their own ink tanks. Roland didn't put in any chips in so you can use
anyone's ink if you wish (Even to this day). Roland was the first to develop a
coated fine art paper with profiles. The first to do print and cut machines.
The first to make a low priced solvent machine.
Epson machines have cost many people lots of money -- required service calls,
inks that fail, crappy drivers, faulty models, stuffing dealers with inventory
when a new model is going to release. Epson is just leading the sheep to
slaughter.
If it were not for Roland we would all still be playing with HP's.
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