Digital BW, The Print

On Dec 9, 2006, at 8:58 PM, hhchapman4104 wrote:

> Hello Sam,
> Thank you very much for the references to the Mac Epson and  
> MacInTouch. I was not
> aware of them. I look forward to learning from them.

Good, Harlan; I think you've got a real treat waiting for you.


> I was able to figure out the print driver. All the utility is  
> there, I think, the interface is just
> vastly different and perhaps a little less convenient, but not bad.  
> The settings for paper,
> gamma, BO vs color, etc. are accessed through the regular "print"  
> selection in the drop
> down menu and then selecting the "copies and pages" option for a  
> variety of settings to
> use for printing that cover the same things one encounters in the  
> Epson driver on the PC.

Sounds a lot like my R200, which I'm trying to do my first serious  
printing with in the context of Christmas cards. So far, so good  
except for some font problems which I tend to think Apple, rather  
than Epson, is causing.


> We had been using a G5 desktop as our main computer. As our house  
> is very small we
> were also considering changing to a macbook pro in '07 given its  
> putative performance for
> its size. 5 weeks ago our G5 went in for service, fortunately  
> covered under Apple Care. In
> the mean time we had to use an old PC laptop to get by, thus the  
> printing (barely) using
> the PC platform. Apple was unable to fix our G5 and replaced it  
> with a MacPro desktop. A
> nice ending, but it took them 5 weeks to get to that point, which  
> was frustrating. So we
> are now on the Intel Mac platform ahead of schedule and on a  
> desktop, not a laptop as
> planned. I can't comment on the performance of Aperture and  
> Photoshop CS2 on the
> MacBook Pro. I can say that I'm very happy with how they have run  
> on the new Mac Pro
> desktop for the last 24 hours...
> -Harlan

What a story; I guess it's a happy ending; it's certainly better  
performance. What I'm hearing is that the current MBP is already good  
enough, but not really good, for Photoshop, much less for Aperture.  
But that the next MBP might very well be due to further chip  
developments. In any case, Lightroom might be enough less demanding  
to work fine on even the current MBP, and I'm not sure I won't prefer  
Lightroom anyway.

Good luck with your new Mac, Harlan, and happy holidays printing from  
it.
--
Sam


>  --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, Sam  
> McCandless <samcc@...>
> wrote:
>> [snip]