Digital BW, The Print

Tom:

Price on IP5.5 LE is $295 through Lexjet.

Duncan

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Tom OConnell" 
<TomOC@s...> wrote:
> Chatzebussi -
> 
> The IP 5.5 lite is $495 and it doesn't have a very user friendly 
> upgrade policy or maintainence (i.e. they have it but it is very 
> expensive). Their new documentation is pretty good and there is a 
> yahoo group that is very supportive and can help you with almost 
any 
> problem. 
> 
> The Epson RIP was wildly anticpated and equally disappointing by 
> report of the early adopters (no updgrade that I know of) and 
> probably isn't worth the $200.
> 
> There is a new rip that sounds great called Pixelpicasso sold by 
> www.bwguys.com but it isn't for sale yet in the 2200 flavor and the 
> pricing for the 2200 isn't yet known (the wide format version is 
> $1500).
> 
> Image Print is a little clunky on the interface side, but once you 
> get used to it, it does make outstanding prints, and it's available 
> today.
> 
> The only other suggestion I have for windows users is to use 
> pictorico paper and use the profiles and workflow that they have 
> created and are available for free downloading on their site. I 
tried 
> these while I was waiting for my copy of IP to arrive and I must 
say 
> they were pretty darn good (if you work with them for a while you 
can 
> most likely make excellent prints ...on thier paper).
> 
> The advantage of IP and PP is that they have lots of profiles (more 
> than 200 with IP and PP says they will have more than 50)...both 
also 
> are great for color (though the Epson driver seems to be pretty 
good 
> for color, too).
> 
> You've seen the other posts on a couple of really good MAC 
> solutions...this is the first time in my life I have considered 
> getting a MAC (but sanity finally prevailed <g>...the OPM runs on 
OS9 
> (yuk) and the quad rip written by Roy is )OSX (and also free).
> 
> You can almost buy a used mac for the price of these rips...that 
> really got me thinking <g>. But I don't want to be messing around 
> with 2 operating systems, life is complex enough and I have too 
much 
> other software that is windows only, I'd wind up psycho...
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Tom O'Connell
> 
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "chatzebussi" 
> <chatzebussi@y...> wrote:
> > Hi out there
> > 
> > So many RIPS around now, one could easily get confused. Most of 
them
> > far too expensive for the
> > avarage black-and-white amateur though - others not yet ready for 
> the
> > PC-Platform... Hélas!
> > 
> > But there is an EPSON RIP around. First made available for the 
EPSON
> > 2200, later for the EPSON 2100. I take it that it is the same 
piece 
> of
> > software.
> > 
> > looking at the pictures here
> > 
> > http://studio-nelson.com/inkjet/bw22003.htm
> > 
> > I would have thought that it isn't doing too badly. I am 
considering
> > buying it as it is rather modestly priced. Any advice? Any serious
> > drawbacks? I am a bit suspicious as this RIP doesn't seem to 
belong 
> to
> > the favorites among the members of this group. In fact it is 
hardly
> > ever mentioned.
> > 
> > Thanks for replying and your info
> > 
> > Chatzebussi