Digital BW, The Print

At 10:04 AM -0500 11/23/05, Barry Schaffer wrote:
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>... I was going to upgrade to CS2 but I'm not sure I want to get 
>involved with more distractions.
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Jack Winberg" <jack.winberg@...>
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Until my 1160 died recently, my situation was somewhat similar to 
Barry's except that I was using my 1160 with my Mac and the Mac OS of 
the same vintage as Barry's Windows OS. And I too have a CS2 upgrade 
in mind. But, with the older Mac OS I too preferred for printing to 
the 1160, I don't think CS2 is an option. So I suspect it also might 
not be an option for Barry's older Windows OS either.

Not that I'm suggesting Barry should try to upgrade his older Windows 
OS: my daughter has it on an older Dell PC, and Dell advised her not 
to try to upgrade it. Photoshop 7 might, however, be a feasible 
upgrade for Barry. It was for me even with my older Mac OS, and my 
impression is that PS 7 is more useful than PS 6 on both platforms.

Incidentally, I don't upgrade Photoshop until the next version of 
Bruce Fraser's & David Blatner's "Real World Photoshop 
...(whatever)..." is available from Amazon.com. And my copy of their 
"Real World Photoshop CS2" came just a few weeks ago. Nothing in its 
first chapter, "Building a Photoshop System", suggests to me that CS2 
could or should be used with older hardware and software on either 
platform. Which is a little frustrating given that both Apple and 
Microsoft are now working on platform re-do's so radical that they 
make me nervous about upgrading my hardware now and finding it 
obsolete by this time next year.

Maybe for those of us with older systems it's a good time to focus on 
peripherals, which in my case, except for one lens, also need to be 
updated. My refurbished R200, which I'm eager to use for black-only 
printing, just came from Epson, and I hope to get an order for a 
2400, for larger prints, both grayscale and color, off soon.
--
Sam