Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Alan Hyde" <ahyde@b...> 
wrote:
> I agree.

Just found this on BBC which should encourage others to "see the light" :):
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3436289.stm

Andu

> 
> I've just installed Gentoo linux after a break of 2 years from linux (I last
> tried Debian). I'm impressed by how much the system has matured (using KDE).
> I've got QTR working after some fantastic support from Roy. I can't say it
> was painless but my early results look like it may have been worthwhile. I
> certainly couldn't afford the alternative RIPS.
> 
> Regards from a lurker who has learned a lot from you guys.
> 
> Alan 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: px3n120x [mailto:px3n120x@y...] 
> Sent: Sunday, 1 February 2004 8:38 AM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Getting started with QuadtoneRIP on Linux?
> 
> --- 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
> 
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