Digital BW, The Print

Thanks to visionaries at our little company, we are getting a new, 
faster-than-God G4. I am a PC person with not much mac experience. 
Is it true that the Piezo driver ties up Photoshop for the duration 
of its export? Will this be the case with DP aware Pshop 7 running 
under osX? Or, should I keep my XP box as a print server...?
Thanks,
Dennis Craven

I don't think they've yet released a version of the piezo driver for
OSX, so it's difficult to say yet.

However, other forms of OSX-native printing have very little impact on
system performance. (Whereas "classic" printing can tie up my system
occasionally.) So odds are good that once there's a native version of
the piezo driver, performance should be pretty decent.

-Charley

(I _love_ OSX :) )

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "soprisghile" <ghile@r...>
wrote:

> Thanks to visionaries at our little company, we are getting a new, 
> faster-than-God G4. I am a PC person with not much mac experience. 
> Is it true that the Piezo driver ties up Photoshop for the duration 
> of its export? Will this be the case with DP aware Pshop 7 running 
> under osX? Or, should I keep my XP box as a print server...?
> Thanks,
> Dennis Craven

Dennis, when I print with the piezo driver, I can click on the desktop 
(or anything visible in the background and not part of the PS app) and 
that puts PS and the printing process in "background" operation. It may 
take a few moments for the click to activate, and the activities away 
from PS are sluggish, but this works fine for downloading email at the 
usual speed and for reading messages.

That said, using your XP box for a print server has its advantages, or 
course. For instance, after working on an image in PS, you could 
transfer it to XP box for printing, and return to the Mac to work on 
another image while the first image is coming out of the printer -- 
which can take up to an hour and a half.

Jim

On Sunday, March 24, 2002, at 10:46  PM, soprisghile wrote:

> Thanks to visionaries at our little company, we are getting a new,
> faster-than-God G4. I am a PC person with not much mac experience.
> Is it true that the Piezo driver ties up Photoshop for the duration
> of its export? Will this be the case with DP aware Pshop 7 running
> under osX? Or, should I keep my XP box as a print server...?
> Thanks,
> Dennis Craven
>