Digital BW, The Print

Bernie Ess wrote:

>
>Essentially it says 
>1. the cheapest RIP on the market 
>2. Shareware fee in case of full satisfaction experience - 100SFR must
>be about 65USD or so. 
>  
>
Bernie, more like 85 USD I think

I think you only saw the shareware price of 100 SFR mentioned at the RIP 
page. Check also the price list (at the bottom). The deal starts at 198 
SFR for the package and it is a bit confusing whether the 198 includes 
the shareware price or not. The two pages contradict one another. It 
still is a low price in both cases but not the cheapest RIP on the 
market. The RIP is also limited to UC B&W printing. Nice to get UC HM 
profiles included but they also tell you that custom profiling per 
printer could improve on the quality they already promise. Hard to judge 
without trying the UCrip but I think that QTR has more to offer for an 
even lower price.

We have been told that it is open source, Gimp-Print based, I don't 
think they can do the business the way they do it now. If I'm not 
mistaken they should add a free download for part of the software at 
least and next to that they can ask shareware money. That's how Martin 
Wuerthner, writer of the Risc Os Gimp-Print port does it, that's how Roy 
does it with QTR.

Ernst