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Rich: I would think that while your $30,000 figure is probably correct NOW, and possibly for the near future, chances are that fairly soon it would go down probably as low as $15,000 or lower. I have this really bad habit which I'm trying to break, which is that I like to buy these hi tech toys when the first come out, and I've seen many things that I've bought drop in price almost 10 fold sometimes! While this isn't SO bad when talking about buying something for $1400.00 and seeing it sell for $499.00 about a year later (this actually happened to me with the 040 accelerator in my A3000) I think I'd cry if I bought something for $30,000.00 and a year later the same thing was selling for $5,000.00! BTW, while talking about things that cost $30k, has the price of imagesetters dropped much? Last time I looked into it at all, used Linotronics were around $25k or so for the full setup (imagesetter, rip, processor, etc). The printer that we use here was thinking of getting an imagesetter a while ago, and they ended up getting one of the so called 1000dpi laser printers, and I'll tell you what, yes it's output is somewhat nicer than the 300dpi output of my laser printer, but not THAT much, and nowhere near the quality of an imagesetter. // -Mike Schiller \X/ AMIGA! On AutoPilot in sunny Fort Lauderdale