Digital BW, The Print

The upgrade path is 499.00 from Platinum to i1Pro... I just keyed in my dongle number.. I realize that Platinum is more costly then other products but the 499.00 is the same price they have had for years for similar upgrades.. They have not raised it at all. The newer product just happens to be less costly.. Color management is used far more today so it makes sense to me that they are able to offer a product more cost effectively. Back when we bought Platinum color management at that level was far less prevalent. This industry has grown significantly.. actually to much so I think.. You could always continue to run Platinum rather then upgrade.. It's still top of the bar software.

jimbo
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: dfaprinting 
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 11:23 AM
  Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Monaco Profiler now officially dead.


    
  I'm trying to work on a deal, might be trivial like a free Digital SG chart or anything for those of us that bought before they dropped the price to $2000 and then basically ended development. I suggest sending an email to sales and letting them know you are not happy that the upgrade is the same price for Platinum as it is for i1 Pro or Design with CMYK (both about $1500 each). I suggest reminding them of your loyalty when competing products were cheaper and you'd like a little reciprocation now since they've abandoned their previous product so many years ago (2009 was a minor fix for OSX 10.5 and nothing for Windows since 2008 or really 2007).

  BTW, the Pulse is still my favorite spectro, still not sure why they haven't made a cordless i1. With current battery technology and wireless technology it could be a cordless but connected device. This might effect my opinion for favorite device.

  --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Patrick Carr <patcarr@...> wrote:
  >
  > Yes, I'm in the same situation as you--spent a lot of money on Platinum, 
  > and a Pulse spectro (also gone).
  > However, from what I've read so far, there doesn't seem to be any 
  > compelling reason to change.
  > 
  > Pat
  > 
  > Carr Imaging
  > 
  > 
  > On 4/12/2011 7:59 AM, dfaprinting wrote:
  > >
  > > Not sure how many of you received the email, so I'll pass it on...
  > >
  > > I just received an email from Xrite announcing that Profiler owners 
  > > (as well as anyone else) are able to upgrade to i1 Publish for a 
  > > reduced rate:
  > > http://www.xrite.com/product_overview.aspx?ID=1472
  > >
  > > This of course made me mad that the $4000 product I bought is worth 
  > > the same amount as the $1000 (or less) i1 packages. For those of you 
  > > with an i1 design LT package, this is a good deal. For the rest of us 
  > > that spent serious coin it appears to be a grumble and deal with it. I 
  > > did send them an email saying that this was not the most equitable for 
  > > those of us with Profiler Platinum, but I doubt they will do anything 
  > > about it, the bigger Xrite corporation doesn't really care that much 
  > > about their customers, not like before the merger (at least in my 
  > > experience).
  > >
  > > 
  > 
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