Digital BW, The Print

Are the "Sundance Image Technology, Inc." and the "R9 Corporation" 
owned by Cone and they just aren't telling anyone?

I think their relationship must be closer than I thought considering 
the upcoming announcement by Cone and Co. tomorrow and the new rip and 
inks by the Sundance people.  Are they going to be in the same booth at 
PMA?

The new rip (updated old piezo pro rip) is being called PixelPixasso 
which I think is mighty funny.

I don't think people are going to want to pay $1500 for the rip when 
cone is coming out with the system that is just based on ICC profiles 
(but maybe they are going to be charging $1500 for the 7000-9600 
profiles, I don't know).  If profiles can do what the piezo plugin does 
and what everyone does with the roark curves etc (et al) than why 
didn't someone come up with them a long time ago?

By the way, I was looking at the cart prices for those larger printers: 
for the piezotones, it costs $510+ for a set for the 9x00. Is it just 
me or does that seem like a lot! Can anyone tell me how many square 
feet a set like that would print?  And why is the selenium and WN more 
expensive than the CN and Carbon Sepia?

-mikeH