Digital BW, The Print

I am a fairly good windows user but know nothing about Mac's or 
Linux. 
I would very much like to use a printer rip with my 2200 for B/W and 
QuadTone can't be beaten on price. The question is, should I run 
Linux on one of old pc's and network it as a print server, or, 
should I go and purchase a Mac to do it?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Barry

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Roy 
Harrington" <roy@h...> wrote:
> 
> There's a new version now available.  Both the Mac OS X version 
and the
> Linux source code are included.
> 
> See:  http://harrington.com/QuadToneRIP.html
> 
> The lastest download has a few enhancements.  
> 
> 1) The major addition is an automated Linearization capability.  
This requires a 
> densitometer or the Eye-One spectro-photometer. With this feature 
once partitioning 
> of gray inks is done, by simply measuring densities and entering 
them into the 
> descriptor file a correction curve is generated to achieve the 
ideally spaced stepwedge 
> i.e. one that is optimized for equal visual separation throught 
the range.
> 
> 2) The ink droplet size for 4 picoliter printers using 1440x720 
resolution has been 
> increased.  Several of the most popular printers fall into this 
category --  the 1160, 
> the 1270, and the 1280.  This means that the potential dMax for 
these printers is has 
> been increased when printing at 1440x720.
> 
> 3) Quite a bit of tuning has been done for the 2200 printer. Both 
the internals have 
> been tweaked for greater smoothness and Carl has created all new 
curves for several 
> papers.
> 
>  4) The Run-Install-Curves script is now automatically run 
whenever you create a 
> curve using Run-Quad-Profile.  Also a password is no longer needed 
for this.
> 
> -------
> 
> Just in case there is a flurry of questions, unfortunately I will 
be away 
> for much of August, so I won't be able to answer emails for a 
while.
> 
> Roy Harrington
> www.harrington.com