Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "John Vitollo" 
<jvlist@c...> wrote:
> "Peter Nelson" wrote:
> > It's RIDICULOUS that 2200 owners 
> > should have to go out and buy a RIP, which is a professional 
tool 
> > designed for commercial print shops, just to make a decent black 
and 
> > white print.   This is like having to buy a hydraulic lift used 
in 
> > service stations just to change your cars' oil.
> 
> If using  Mac w/OS X the rip to get is QTR using Carl's curves for 
the 2200 w/Epson inks.

Earlier today someone suggested Bowhaus's open printmaker. 

I'm an AAPL stockholder so I suppose I should be grateful, but I 
don't actually use a Mac and the last statistic (from IDC) I saw 
showed Mac's having a market penetration of about 3%.   Even if they 
are 3 or 4 times as common as that in the world of digital 
photography, that still means that probably 80% of us are using 
PC's.   (IDC says desktop Linux is 3.2%)   So how come people keep 
coming out for these things for Mac's?   I write Wintel sw for a 
living so I know it's not hard to program and since the Wintel 
market is vastly bigger how come these's no Wintel product like that 
that doesn't cost an arm and a leg?