Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Jonah, Jim"

> My bet is true market for RIPs is very small, 
> hence the price needs to be higher to make it 
> worthwhile for the person/company selling it. 

No, RIPs are expensive because they are big complicated pieces of 
software.   My complaint about RIPs is that their ability to print 
black and white is NOT their raison d'etre but people here act like 
it is.  Buying an entire RIP just to print black and white is like 
buying a new house because you like the carpet in the upstairs guest 
bedroom - it's a lot of trouble and expense to go to to get a piece 
of carpet.


> If you were to write a great tool that graphic pros 
> would love you might find that there's less competition
> in the mac side of the house. Now once you've grown 
> from being a single developer to a true company you might
> consider porting it to the PC side if there's not 
> a lot of competition, for example.

Except that there's NO, ZERO, ZILCH competition in the PC universe 
for this stuff.   Yesterday we identified two separate non-RIP 
products for printing BW on Mac's -vs- none on PC's.

BTW, I notice in your comments that you kept referring to "graphic".  
If you are referring to graphic design, that's an entirely different 
discipline from photography.   Mac's have traditionally been strong 
in graphic design, not photography.   Several of my friends are 
graphic designers and none of those are photographers. 

How come Epson doesn't offer software for making decent BW prints on 
a 2200?