Digital BW, The Print

> Thoughts?  Any chance colorbyte would do this? (I'm talking mostly about the
> "the B&W only version" idea -- the de-bundling of support from product is
> probably much more of a longshot).  I'm posting this here, in addition to
> writing 
> colorbyte soon, because (a) I hope others would also write to colorbyte and
> suggest they do this and (b) because I know people from colorbyte
> occassionally contribute to this board, so it would help if they see support
> for 
> or refinement of this idea from others on this board.

I have not looked at all the products that are available but, one of the
things that drew me to IP a few years ago was the fact that Cone's B&W only
product for the larger printers was the same price as IP and with IP I got
Color and B&W. The most important value that Colorbyte offers is that they
will create a profile for your ink and paper combo if it does not already
exist - these are features that I would not want to be without. I guess the
big question would be to ask how profitable has it been to offer a $500
product, and would a $200 product really produce enough additional customers
to be worth the investment in reprogramming? If they got a lot of new
customers who would provide the support? This brings me to a point I made
regarding another post lamenting the absence of a Windows product - it may
be that some small companies don't want lots more customers.

Wendel