AW: Hardware RIP for 3000

["JŸrgen Ršsch" <jr@best-online.de>]

> ...machines are an example of software now available on Intel
> hardware (NT in this
> case).
>     On the other hand, a lot of the built-in RIPS, like the
> Kodak's, allow you
> to load in updates and use external hard disks for spooling, so
> there's a lot of
> blurring to what used to be an obvious distinction between the two.
>
>     david

There is another reason for built in RIPs (either on a PCI-card or in the
printer) or external hardware RIPs: you buy them with your printer, connect
them to your Mac and start printing. If anything goes wrong, you send it in
for repair or call customer service. With a NT based RIP you always have the
problem to convince people of the need of a PC - "I'll have never a d...
Windows based DOS-Box in my house connected to my Macs!!!".
I know this situation very well because our BESTColor runs on NT. Often I'd
liked to remove the keyboard and monitor and sell the box as hardware RIP
like a Fiery where you cannot reach the operating system and can do nothing
else with the box than RIP.

Juergen Roesch

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