Digital BW, The Print

> 
> It uses a parallel port dongle, and they're coming out with a USB 
dongle
> version for the Macs.
> 


Wow... I can't imagine more than 10 people buying software that 
requires a dingle... This is like going back to the earliest versions 
of Lotus 1-2-3. Equally hard to see a parallel port version of 
anything selling well.

I guess Jon Cone has just licensed a version of Image Print...I only 
hope he didn't put a lot of development time and/or money into it 
because this sounds like a loser...and I think that even if the 
quality is significantly better. 

This is just not a concept that is going to be received well by many 
people (IMHO). I have been thinking about ditching my 1160s and 
upgrading to 1280s or 5000s, thinking this new software would be the 
impetus for me...now I'd better find another 1160<g>.

What a disappointment. I usually get incredibly excited about even 
fairly minor improvements in tools I use so much. Hard to understand 
how they could be this far off (at least from my point of 
view...maybe I'm isolated, but I suspect not.).

Tom O'Connell

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