Digital BW, The Print

px3n120x wrote:

>
>Nothing personal and didn't call you anything but in this day and age when there are 
>zillions of choices of both platforms and software for you-name-it, to hear yet more 
>dissatisfaction about why this or that is not available on my platform (as if it should),  
>is mind bugling.
>
There is not a similar WinTel product.. THat is the point, and why I 
call it a "missed opportunity."

> If you use a Mac as you say below I just don't see the problem.
>Unless your point is that Widows compatibility is a must for every developer which I'm 
>sure many of them would disagree with.
>  
>
The fact that I do use both platforms doesn't mean I want to dedicate an 
iBook to playing print server any more than I want to install a Linux 
box and lose the Windows driver functionality..

Beyond that, I'm NOT the issue.. The broader market is..

ESPECIALLY when as with serious B&W printing you already are dealing 
with a niche market, why throw away ANY OS based segment of the 
market..  I'd be saying the SAME thing, but to a lesser degree based in 
simple economics, was the product a WinTel only product...

In fact, I have done so if there aren't parallel or similar Mac 
offerings already, for example: I have made the point with WinTel only 
offerings like Filters Unlimited, Bryce (who Corel is apparently 
dropping the  ac version of), Plugin Manager, Buzz Pro and some of the 
B&W conversion plugins hitherto, that Macs constitute a disproportionate 
part of the high end graphics market - so, especially for higher end 
products, they should offer unique products that have no similar 
competing products on both platforms....  We won't EVEN get into how 
much I'd love a Linux native version of  PhotoShop..

In my PERSONAL case, given that I already have OS 9 lying around, adding 
a used desktop or tower Mac to my intranet may make the most sense... 
Then I could conceivably retain BOTH EPSON driver functionality and use 
OPM/IJC.. (or am I mistaken in that belief?) 

So..... Do any of you Mac believers know what a rational minimal 
configuration (which CPU, how much RAM, HD space, etc.) would be for 
running OPM/IJC on a networked Mac (also assuming I intend to use the 
last pre OS X update of OS 9)? I want to make sure that I can print 
files of at least 200-300 mb (16x20 inch prints - and perhaps up to 
500-600mb on occasion) without the Finder and  GUI acting like they took 
'ludes..


 
Keith Krebs

"Just some guy," and caretaker of the Multiverse's largest EPSON printer 
User Community (highly recommended by Vogon Poets and MegaDodo 
Publications), at:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EPSON_Printers/
 
"For the rest of you out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together 
guys"