Re: define linearization
Re: define linearization
- Subject: Re: define linearization
- From: SKID Photography <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 22:03:43 -0400
- Organization: SKID Photography
Graeme Gill wrote:
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email@hidden wrote:
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> I think most of us have a hard time justifying
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> buying a RIP that can easily cost as much as the printer!
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Keep in mind that the printer manufacturers heavily subsidize
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the cost of the printer by making all the money on the ink
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and paper. The RIP manufacturer has to make their money
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in one go at the start. You really need to look at the
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cost of the _system_ that solves your problem, rather
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than agonizing over the division of cost between each
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component.
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Is it really a problem that the RIP costs more than the printer,
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if it is the RIP that makes it a proofing system, rather than simply
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an expensive way of dirtying paper ?
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Graeme Gill.
Yeah, but with a printer not only have they developed essentially duplicate software
(albeit not as good), they also developed a printer(s), which in itself is a phenomenally
complex machine, you get to keep the printer, and not just a license.
Harvey Ferdschneider
partner, SKID Photography, NYC
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