To RC and Alchemist,
Some valid points are being made here. Price is just one of the areas where these suppliers compete over. With a lower price always being desired.---even in very small quanities. When the ink mixer only get economy mixing in super large amounts. And then usually sells--not directly to the public---but rather to other third parties---who in turn may or may not sell to the public.
But then one can talk about customer service, but the outfit doing tbe customer service, is seldom the company actually doing the ink mixing. Then we have RC coming along and suggesting color profiles for various printers.--which again begs the question---are the vendors we expect these color profiles from the actual ink mixer or just a customer of the ink mixer. And RC also notes these color profile concerns seem to go in one ear and out the other.
In another thread, I noted the OEM printer makers seem determined to squeeze the home refiller market out of business by using chipped printers, that this segment of the market was facing a actual survival question, and suggested competition in the area of archival quality ink.
But the last question I ask more to industry insiders-------HOW BIG A SECTION OF THE OVERALL INK MIXING INDUSTRY ACTUALLY VENDS INK DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY TO THE HOME REFILLER OF INKJET PRINTERS? With a last comment that if that percentage is very small, so is the probability that our concerns will even be on their radar screens.
Some valid points are being made here. Price is just one of the areas where these suppliers compete over. With a lower price always being desired.---even in very small quanities. When the ink mixer only get economy mixing in super large amounts. And then usually sells--not directly to the public---but rather to other third parties---who in turn may or may not sell to the public.
But then one can talk about customer service, but the outfit doing tbe customer service, is seldom the company actually doing the ink mixing. Then we have RC coming along and suggesting color profiles for various printers.--which again begs the question---are the vendors we expect these color profiles from the actual ink mixer or just a customer of the ink mixer. And RC also notes these color profile concerns seem to go in one ear and out the other.
In another thread, I noted the OEM printer makers seem determined to squeeze the home refiller market out of business by using chipped printers, that this segment of the market was facing a actual survival question, and suggested competition in the area of archival quality ink.
But the last question I ask more to industry insiders-------HOW BIG A SECTION OF THE OVERALL INK MIXING INDUSTRY ACTUALLY VENDS INK DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY TO THE HOME REFILLER OF INKJET PRINTERS? With a last comment that if that percentage is very small, so is the probability that our concerns will even be on their radar screens.
