Digital BW, The Print

There are plenty of examples of a product being priced for the platform. 
The scientific s/w package Machematica cost a lot more on a Sun or Cray 
than on a PC or Mac. The same for Matlab. It fact I would think this is 
more the rule than the exception.

Truman

Wendel White wrote:

> I hate to jump into these discussions but as an ImagePrint user - I have
> never been disappointed by the product or the fact that based on features
> and capability, they have a sales model based on a sliding scale.
>
> There are other examples of this model - Silverfast  has different prices
> for different scanners (for a Coolscan III its $119.00 but for my 
> LS800 its
> $600.00) and  Adobe's Framemaker software is $799.00 for MAC and Win but
> $1350.00 for Unix. Let's not forget that there is a consumer version of
> Photoshop (Photoshop Elements 2.0) at $99.00 - cleverly labeled with a
> slightly different name.
>
> ImagePrint does much more than print quadtones, for the large printers (I
> don't know the features on the desktop versions) it is also a network 
> print
> queue and page optimizer designed to save paper by loading many jobs 
> to one
> sheet. As an artist I don't use those feature but that is not Colorbyte's
> problem.
>
> Wendel