Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "pr_roark" 
> One issue that bothers me is the printer driver compatibility for my old 7500 and probably other printers.  I haven't even checked the situation for my Nikon 8000 scanner.  But if Vista can't run these things, a Mac that can run XP or a cheap XP laptop might be needed.
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> It turns out there is a way to run the 7500 with Vista 32.  Bob Shram on the Epson Wide Format forum at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/EpsonWideFormat/message/88351 published a clever work-around that allows my Vista 32 laptop to driver the old printer.  Whether there is a similar work-around for Vista 64 is something I'd like to know.


Windows7 is supposed to have a virtualization to run XP apps. I haven't kept up on the discussions to see if it really works though. I think that anyone can still download the win7RC1 and give it a try.

For fast disks I would suggest a good fast hardware RAID card and the 2.5inch Velociraptor drives in some form of RAID 0 array. More drives equals faster speeds but minimum of 2 drives to build the array. I use 3ware cards at work and they are generally great, we also have some Adaptec cards in a couple of the servers that work well too, but most of our arrays are either RAID5 or RAID6 for data protection.