Letters, feedback, get it off your chest: 20 May 2010

Andy McCourt’s prolific blogs draw a strong reaction from readers. Let us know your view on these, or any of our other stories.

Re: IPEX 2010 Blogs - Andy McCourt Number 4
Andy, you old b**tar* – I am so enjoying your blog. Please keep the thing coming; it’s better than being at the show ... just as well, since I’ll only be making the briefest of cameo appearances on Friday (God, volcanic ash – not necessarily a direct threat to El Spa – deadlines, walking the dog, a perpetual hangover and other sundry impediments notwithstanding).

Des King

Andy,
absolute rubbish about the Xerox article ...   
 
Fujifilm, Fuji Xerox and Xerox Corporation (all connected mate!).  And all have significant patents and concerning inkjet technologies (from heads to inks etc … )  Mate, you should also do your homework on solid ink ... it's the basis for the ColorCube 9200 in the US, which has outsold nearly any other model we've come out with in years. See here.  
 
Now hypothetically, say this office device (which only a couple of years ago was only a desktop) suddenly becomes a Production Digital Press (Sheet or Web fed)...  you've got some serious accounting to do when Xerox comes out with this and no-one else has it.
 
Dude, you get paid to go all the way over there: do your homework before you write such rubbish. Have fun on your junket!
 
Cheers,
Duane Mackey

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Hi Duane,

Thanks for reading my rubbish and getting right to the point. There is no question ColorQube (with a Q buddy), is great OFFICE technology for colour documents. My assertion is that it has little benefit in production high-quality colour, and that's why Xerox has been poisitioned only at transactional print so it seems. In Australia, your company is called FujiXerox, so I am well aware of the connections. Patents or no patents it does not matter – your inkjet-machine-with-no-name will not cut it in high quality ISO/Fogra/Ugra colour. Wanna tell the folks how you are going to achieve similar quality as you get on an iGen4 (which is BRILLIANT!) on a phase-change high speed inkjet? So I say again, Xerox is not whole-hearted when it comes to high speed continuous production quality inkjet. Otherwise, you'd be offering pigmented and dye-based aqueous inkjet colour, which is currently holds about 80% of the world market in this sector (continuous feed, high volume, full colour). The other 20% is toner including Xerox 980s.

Hey Duane, I paid my own way here buddy! Just ask that mean b**tar* publisher I occassionally write for.

Keep 'em coming.

Andy McCourt