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To: Pierre Panet-Raymond who wrote (7993)	1/26/1998 5:36:00 PM
From: SG	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 11098

Pierre, Please tell me in detail the significance regarding your intense desire to prove that there are only 175 QM-DI installs in the US. IF this represents more than 50% of world wide installs then we have a number total of ? 380-400? Then based on the 1,000 kits shipped from PRST to Heidelberg it means there are 600 kits sitting in boxes? Somewhere between 600 un-used kits and zero is the truth. How can we arrive at a quantifiable number. I await your response as to the importance of the U.S. installs and I might add that the number you are looking for may be 180. The approx cost to re-plate the QM-DI is $40 to the printer. x 2 jobs per day x 5 days x 52 weeks would represent $20,800 per year per press in plate costs. Are these numbers conservative enough? Given that we may agree on that volume x 180 U.S. press installs = $3.74 million in plate sales for the U.S. only. If the number of press installs world wide is only 400 x $20.8K (plates per year) = $8.32 million. An increase to 3 plate(s) changes per day jumps the number to $12.5 million in plate sales. 600 press's @ 3 changes per day = $18.72 million. Some one help me here??? I can't think when i'm hungry<ggg> SG