Digital BW, The Print

I'm using a G3 Blue and white with 2 SCSI hard drives...it's fast compared
with a PC...but the duals are expensive++++...maybe I should wait til the
G5's are out and the G4 price will drop?

> From: Robert Morrison <rmorrison@...>
> Reply-To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 22:17:00 -0800
> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] dual mac.
> 
> I have a relatively old (now) dual 450 G4 which is much faster at photoshop
> than any PC I've worked with.  I haven't installed OSX on this machine
> yet...but I understand that there are huge performance advantages to be had
> on the dual processor machines because of the true multitasking in OSX. The
> G5's will be the ultimate wintel slayers...because of true 64bit
> architecture.  Coupled with OSX there is no reason to use a wintel machine
> if you are in graphics or music intensive industries anymore...that
> is...unless you want to use Cone's RIP.
> 
> Robert
> 
> On 11/21/01 1:00 PM, "JackG" <jackg@...> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Trish,
>> I have been very pleased with it, my first G-4 did not have it, but I'm not
>> sure I can tell a difference because I have always been a PC person until I
>> started using photoshop last year. I have photoshop on the PC but I have
>> never used it.
>> A friend of mine who is tutoring me on photoshop says the G-4's are so much
>> faster that it is no comparison to what she had been using in the past.
>> 
>> John in OKC
>> 
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "ternahan" <ternahan@...>
>> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 1:47 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Digital BW] For Steadman/To Piezo or Not to Piezo...that isa
>> question.
>> 
>> 
>> | Jack,
>> |
>> | How do you like the G-4 dual?
>> |
>> | TIA,
>> | trish
>> |
>> | > From: "JackG" <jackg@...>
>> | > Reply-To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
>> | > Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 09:27:57 -0600
>> | > To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
>> | > Subject: [Digital BW] For Steadman/To Piezo or Not to Piezo...that is a
>> | > question.
>> | >
>> | > Good Morning Steadman,
>> | >
>> | > If you are in the USA, have a happy Thanksgiving, if not, have a great
>> | > weekend.
>> | >
>> | > After Christmas I will have the time to start experimenting with the
>> digital
>> | > B & W process.
>> | >
>> | > For photoshop6.1 only, I am using a  dual Mac G-4 with one gig of ram,
>> | > Polaroid SS4000 film scanner, Microtek Scanmaster 4 flatbed, Yamaha CD
>> | > burner, Wacom tablet and an Epson 1270 for a printer using their inks. I
>> use
>> | > Hasselblad for work and a Nikon F5 plus an 8008s for vacations.
>> | >
>> | > Would you have a ball park figure as to what you think it would cost to
>> set
>> | > up a system for making the Piezo prints?
>> | >
>> | > As you can see I do not have a system to calibrate the above and I get
>> the
>> | > impression that this would be important to do. What equipment do you
>> | > recommend? I want to keep using the 1270 for Epson Inks.
>> | >
>> | > I have been following, or that is trying to follow this list for some
>> time
>> | > and I am still confused about a lot of things. For instance, as a simple
>> | > question, I still haven't figured out what OEM actually means. I guess
>> it is
>> | > the actual inks from Epson.
>> | >
>> | > Thanks,
>> | >
>> | > John in OKC
>> | >
>> | >
>> | > <BIG SNIP>
>> | >
>> | >
>> | >
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