Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Steve Kale 
<stevekale@...> wrote:
>
> Carl paid $895 for the UV Pulse Spectro (only) from X-Rite.  RIP 
plus
> separate profiling is expensive.  I think I'm going to hang back 
for now
> although I could buy a RIP and outsource the profiling (given I can 
do the
> measurements).
> 


Actually, my price was going to be less, they were going to give me 
an additional discount for being a Profiler Platinum owner. I found 
a "new" Pulse UV system with Optix XR2 on ebay for $900, so that 
really couldn't be beat. The XR2 just has a different color case, so 
that it matches the DTP20 spectro.

If you want to look into other RIPs, I would suggest the Evolution 
from www.digifab.com . For the 4800 the price is only $500 USD, and 
it will work with your spectro. Then as you say you could outsource 
the CMYK profiles (at least until the Xrite/GMB purchase is final and 
the product line stabilizes).