Digital BW, The Print

Hi Martin-

I am running OSX on my wife's iMac- I think it's a G3 400 or 500.  I don't
see any reason you couldn't run QuadToneRip on such a machine- although be
aware that since you are printing from PS, you will need the ram to open up
those huge 4x5 Howtek files!  ;^0

Also, you will definitely (IMHO) need a second hard drive (or at least room
for the two systems on your primary drive)- but not a big deal with today's
prices.

As far as it sounding "more like DOS than windows," be careful, buddy,
them's close to fighting words for certain Unix geeks I know. ;^)


Bill Morse
PhotoProspect
Cambridge, MA USA

on 6/6/03 11:40 PM, Martin Wesley wrote:

> Keep us posted on this or anyone else who gives it a try on a G3. Are you
> printing directly from PS or from QT-RIP as a seperate operation? The
> ability to follow the cheap print server approach would make it much more
> accessable. In fact if both QT-RIP and OPM worked under such a setup it
> would make the extra investment more appealing.


 
>>> Shell scripts? Terminal program? You lost me there. How
>> familar with the Mac
>>> and OS X does a person need to be to work with it at this
>> point?
>> 
>> I've probably made too much of a deal about this.  It mostly
>> boils down to text editting a description file and running a
>> couple programs, instead of a cute graphical interface.
>> For someone who has never used a Mac, its like me who
>> has pretty much never used windows.
> 
> Sounds more like DOS than Windows. Typing in commands at a prompt type
> stuff. The Windows users are not going to be any more experienced with that
> sort of thing than the Mac users at this point. For myself having learned
> Fortran on a key punch machine I could probably deal with it but would need
> some kind of description of what to do.
> 
> Martin