Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Roark"
<paul.roark@v...> wrote:

> Philosophically, I'm a Linux-type guy, but without a lot of technical
> expertise, I'm not sure I want to take the time it seems to require.
> Moreover, with one of my goals being to spread the B&W digital
technology,
> this just seems to be a hopeless OS route.

Without starting an OS war again, thanks to many others who didn't
consider Linux (*nix) "a hopeless OS route" we now have a very mature
OS which slowly but surely is taking away market from microsoft (more
and more communities around the world are replacing Windows with Linux
on the desktop) and developing new technologies. It may still be rough
around the edges and it may still not be supported by major software
companies but IBM and others will help change that.
I don't print from Linux since OS X does it just fine with QTR but I
owe it to  Gimp-Print, CUPS (both Linux technologies) and QTR that I'm
able to do it in style. Sometimes it has to get complicated before it
gets simple, my advice is not to give up on good technology because it
requires a little learning. QTR *is* the least expansive, best
controllable way to do digital B&W printing regardless of platform
preferences, I encourage everyone to take the "pain" and try it.

Andu