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Choosing a Computer System for Digital Imaging
-- Paul Gittins, January 17, 2002
A point that needs to be emphasised when considering striping drives for speed:
this will half the reliability of your drives. Backup then becomes critical, and the
risk of downtime rebuilding a system goes up. That's not to say striping is all bad,
but it's something to bear in mind.
-- Rodger Donaldson, January 17, 2002
It's nice to see some general recommendations here, but I think two important
aspects are completely missed:
1) Establishing a color management workflow is not the simplest of tasks. Expect
to spend substantial money and/or time "learning the ropes" until you get the
required results.
2) No matter how much money you have and no matter how much hardware you've
bought, learning PhotoShop intimately will take a long time. Don't expect to see
magnificent results overnight.
-- Dan Wolfgang, January 17, 2002
..."Should you get an inkjet printer for proofing your images before sending them to
a service bureau for high end output? Absolutely not."...
I really don't understand this comment. This is common practice. It's farily simple
to profile a certain printer and duplicate its output on a good inkjet. Certain inkjets
can be used with software like Adobe PressReady - which does a fantastic job at
simulating CMYK press output on cheap inkjets. HP has just started shipping a
whole line of pre-press proofing inkjets (starting at $800).
-- Steven Lyons, January 17, 2002
Perhaps this title should have read "Choosing a(n) (Ideal) Computer..."? Albeit the
thrust of this article is to address new computer system purchasers but there are
many of us out here running with adequate (as per Adobe specs) systems that may
only need a bit of tweaking. Yes, our systems are slower and Yes, they may be less
than desirable but probably are 'good enough' to start with.
As example, I'm printing with an Epson 880. With this printer I lose out on having
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