Digital BW, The Print

Tom and Jim,

For the record, I wasn't suggesting "passing off" a target printed with
Generations as being OEM ink. Jim's right...that would be a disservice
to others. My thinking is that if I pay $500 for $100 software and
"free" profiling is part of the justification for that, then I damn well
ought to be able to get profiles made with both the inks and papers of
my choosing! IOW, I'd tell them up front it's Gen. I don't see anywhere
on their website that the profiling service is limited to OEM ink.
Refusal to do so after the fact would result in complaint to the
consumer protection authorities.

I'm glad to read that Colorbyte's President hasn't completely lost touch
with reality and plans to update his pricing strategies for the small
printers. I believe he should rethink the ban on 3rd party color ink
sets as well. They do claim to support the 1200 series of printers. Who
in their right mind would buy a $500 RIP for a printer that is only
useable with inks that fade in a year? I also don't see that expense for
quads only. There are surely some of you out there that are so into B&W
that you might do that, but not me. There are good, less expensive
alternatives to IP for quads.

The more I read about the beta-software type problems you are having
with the 2200 version of IP, my feet are getting colder and colder. If
the software is still a work-in-progress, then I would want a guarantee
of free upgrades before I would buy. Heck, from what I've read
lately...the 2200 itself doesn't seem very reliable. Perhaps now is not
the time to upgrade after all.

Lloyd




-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Fors [mailto:tom@...] 
Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 4:00 PM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Colorbyte and Ink questions



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.

--Tom



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