Digital BW, The Print

On 8/19/02 3:37 PM, "Martin Wesley" <mwesley250@...> wrote:

>> IP's profiles for the Piezotones are much, much better  than those in the
>> piezo plugin or Piezopro profiles.
> 
> Are the Piezotone profiles already available for the 1280 version?

I'm expecting them in the next couple of days...they were working on them
last week.

> (snip)
>> 
>> Absolutely.  The newer dither is fantastic...the best out there in my
>> opinion.  This is a rapidly evolving product and each change makes it
>> better
>> and better in my opinion.  The soon to be released OSX version, I believe,
>> will be the ultimate print engine.
> 
> Sound pretty good. Are you paying the annual $495 maintenance fee for
> support and upgrades? How is the support, by the way?

Support is excellent.  No I'm not paying the maintenance fee yet.  My guess
is that once you have the profiles you need you and get over any initial
interface issues you won't really need support.  There has been talk...and
it is just talk at this point...of making the profiling software available
so that people who have a densitometer or spectrophotometer could make their
own quad profiles.  When I met with Colorbyte last week they sounded ready
to do this...I obviously encouraged them...finally...do it yourself quad
profiling!  If you had that you probably wouldn't need the tech support.
The tech support does include unlimited version upgrades, though, including
support for new printers and inksets and such.  As all of us who recently
upgraded to PS7 are reminded...most good things aren't free forever.

One thing that many of us need to get over...in my opinion...is feeling that
software should be free...if you have ever written code before you know it
is hard, time consuming work...and if you are running a business that is not
supported by printer and ink sales you need to make money someway!

Robert