Digital BW, The Print

I just have to take exception to all those who complain that Imageprint - and many other software products - is a ripoff.  Maybe it's a matter of definition.  A ripoff is generally meant to describe a situation where one does not get what was expected when they paid their money.  Imageprint certainly does not fit that category.  We know exactly what we are getting when we send Colorbyte our money.  And, Colorbyte delivers.  I just don't see how that is a ripoff. Expensive, yes.  Ripoff, definitely not.  'Supply and demand', 'competition', 'free market forces', etc., are all at work here.  None of us are being forced to send Colorbyte, or other RIP makers, our money.   If there is a better, cheaper solution out there, let it preset itself.
 
Why would anyone believe that software developers should not be paid for their efforts?
 
Tom Baker

Tim Atherton <timatherton@...> wrote:
either $400 Imageprint or around the same price for septone inks and driver
(at least with the former you can do colour as well) - either way it's a
ripoff...

But having just bit the bullet and got Imageprint, it does do a very nice
job. B&W on Fine Art Hot Pressed look lovely (and it generally prints better
colour on a lot of papers)

Or if you a MAC person - you can try one of the free RIPish options out
there

tim






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