Digital BW, The Print

Ron-

I work on a laptop. I don't want hardware stuff to carry with me. The 
concept of using hardware security for software is simply a lame 
concept from where I sit. I can't imagine setting up dongles...even 
on desktops (unless it was a dedicated printing machine)...even 
there, you sound like you have every port on your desktop crammed 
with dongles... just not something I am willing to do.

The requirement of Lotus to put the Floppy in the drive when using 
the program was the biggest reason that Excel killed the product 
totally...likely to be the same with any other software product, I 
would think.

Just one man's opinion...

Tom O'Connell


--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Ron Landucci" <ron@p...> 
wrote:
> Tom,
> 
> I don't understand.  My Monaco Profiler software requires a USB 
dongle, my
> Trident software for my Howtek scanner requires a USB dongle, my 
Wasatch
> SoftRIP requires a parallel dongle, and my Cone PiezoPro RIP 
requires a
> dongle.  These are all state of the art programs and I don't 
understand the
> analogy to Lotus 1-2-3.  I find it hard to imagine that me and only 
nine
> other people are using software that requires a dongle.
> 
> In fact, I just upgraded my PiezoPro RIP to the 9000 version, and 
have been
> making 30"x40" and 40"x50" prints for the last week.  If my dongle 
required
> me to stand on my head and whistle Dixie, I'd do it - the prints 
are that
> good.
> 
> What's the issue with having to deal with a dongle?  What don't I 
know?
> 
> Ron
> 
>   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.
>    ...
> 
>    Tom O'Connell
> 
>   TomOC@y...
>   www.thomasoconnell.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
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