Digital BW, The Print

OF COURSE connecting the printer to the old computer in the network 
gives advantages.  This way whenever you do the heavy task on your main 
computer the printing is not going to slow at all.  Otherwise the 
printing sometimes almost stops when the resources are dedicated to for 
example sharpening of the 350MB file on your machine.  The old computer 
can access the file wherever it is on the network and print without 
slowing down, not stopping your other task.
I have this sort of network myself (with three computers).  If I decide 
to I may print from my main computer through the network to the printer 
connected to the old computer, or print from the old computer not 
bothering the main one.  It helps.
By the way - my main computer is 2.4 GHz P4 (WIN XP) and the old is 
550MHz (but with the 1GB of RAM -- WIN 2000 Pro).
Have a nice weekend.
Jack

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Jack M Kucy
JMK Gallery (www.jmk-gallery.com)
917-991-2096     jmk@...
Member of ASMP (www.asmp.org)
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Paul D. DeRocco wrote:

> > From: wolarsky [mailto:wolarsky@...]
> >
> > I'm upgrading from a Windows 98 machine to an XP machine in order to
> > use the new PS. My question is whether there would any advantages to
> > the digital workflow to keep the old computer and create a two-
> > computer network?
> >
> > Would the printer (1280) be connected to the new computer, the old
> > one, or a print server (whatever that is).
>
> Probably no workflow advantage--unless you had an assistant.
>
> However, if you can put the two machines in different areas, and put an
> extra disk in each, then you can back up each machine to the other, using
> something like SecondCopy. That way, if half the building burns down...
>
> --
>
> Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
> Paul                mailto:pderocco@...
>
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