Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Thomas Fors" 
<tom@f...> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <jimhayes@f...>
> 
> > >
> > > I was mistaken.  The price for additional desktop printers is 
$200.
> > > Although, I did get a reply from John at Colorbyte regarding
> > > pricing.  He said they realize desktop printers need to be 
supported
> > > at a reasonable price and that they're working on that now.
> > >
> >
> > Can you tell more about this at this point? I suppose they won't 
give
> > me a rebate since I already bought it, but will they extend tech
> > support or something other?
> > <snip>
> >
> 
> Unfortunately, that's all I know.
> John (johnp@c...) did seem very receptive to criticism
> about their pricing strategy though.
>

Thank you. They really should extend my tech support beyond 90 days 
for $500. I have been bugging them a lot lately, but I suspect that I 
will only need it occasionally after my Eclipse woes are solved...
 
> > After a paper was profiled for a particular printer/ink/dpi/%ink
> > reduction (optional), why would you reprofile it exactly with same
> > parameters? Perhaps I misunderstand your answer...
> 
> I thought the original question was about printing targets with 3rd 
party
> color inks and passing it off to Colorbyte as if they were OEM inks 
just to
> get them to profile it.  In that case, they might have a problem if 
their
> policy is to not support 3rd party color inks and it looks like 
you're
> duplicating a printer/ink/dpi combo that already exists.

Oh, okay. I wasn't thinking along that line, since in the drop down 
box for paper profiles, some MIS-FS profiles for 1280 already exist. 
So unless these are obsolete profiles, at least this flavor of 3rd 
party IS supported. A few Piezo varients show up too, but whether old 
piezo or PT or what I don't know.

Hypothetically, if you mislabeled the target when you sent it in with 
the wrong ink, printer, dpi, etc, you would be doing a disservice to 
others, as the profile would be given a name and then given out to 
others as bonafide.<g>
Jim H.

> 
> --Tom