Digital BW, The Print

I went directly from PS6 to CS2 on a Windows 2000 machine and had no 
problem with the OS or the program.  If you can use 6, you can use 
CS2.

Walt



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Sam McCandless 
<samcc@v...> wrote:
>
> At 10:04 AM -0500 11/23/05, Barry Schaffer wrote:
> >[snip]
> >
> >... I was going to upgrade to CS2 but I'm not sure I want to get 
> >involved with more distractions.
> >
> >[snip]
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Jack Winberg" <jack.winberg@v...>
> >[snipped]
> 
> 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
>