Epson's Facelift and Next Generation

Sometimes large Japanese companies act as if their national subsidiaries in various countries around the world are autonomous entities. This made a sort of sense in the days before the Internet. It would be months before any product announced in the UK, for example, received exposure in the US; usually not until air-mailed copies of UK magazines (sometimes a couple of months later) appeared on specialty news stands in a few big cities.
But,that was then and this is now(as the saying goes). Today if an Australian sub of a Japanese company announces a new product for the Tasmanian market, people everywhere in the world know about it 8 nanoseconds later, whether they live in New York or Nairobi. One only has to look at the geographic distribution of the readership of this site for this reality to become manifest.
Luminous Landscape readership distribution – July, 2007
In early July Epson USA held a media event in New York to show its new printer line, which was scheduled then for p...