Digital BW, The Print

I hate to jump into these discussions but as an ImagePrint user - I have
never been disappointed by the product or the fact that based on features
and capability, they have a sales model based on a sliding scale.

There are other examples of this model - Silverfast  has different prices
for different scanners (for a Coolscan III its $119.00 but for my LS800 its
$600.00) and  Adobe's Framemaker software is $799.00 for MAC and Win but
$1350.00 for Unix. Let's not forget that there is a consumer version of
Photoshop (Photoshop Elements 2.0) at $99.00 - cleverly labeled with a
slightly different name.

ImagePrint does much more than print quadtones, for the large printers (I
don't know the features on the desktop versions) it is also a network print
queue and page optimizer designed to save paper by loading many jobs to one
sheet. As an artist I don't use those feature but that is not Colorbyte's
problem. 

Wendel

> I merely asked an honest question about why this company
> breaks the standard accepted practice by having this sliding
> scale, for various printers. I have not yet received an answer why
> this is so. I am open to there being a reason. Until I do, it just
> makes me hesitate a bit.
> 
> How about this:
> 
> Photoshop7Consumer (limit of 30meg file) $199
> Photoshop7ProSumer (limit of 100meg file) $399
> Photoshop7Pro (no file limit) $699
> 
> Wouldn't you wonder too?
> 
> And for that matter, from my limited perspective, why should
> software that's print-only be four times the price of Photoshop 7?
> Is the code THAT much more complex than PS7?
> 
> At some point, Adobe found a price point that that knew that large
> volumes of graphics pros would jump in the pool. I just say that
> ColorByte has not found that point yet.
> 
> And they're also talking to people on this list, and the 9000 list,
> who have been promised the moon before. We are, Thank God,
> a skeptical bunch.
> 
> MTucker