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Choosing a Computer System for Digital Imaging
Photoshop - enough less that you can buy a SCSI drive with the difference!
-- Ray Paseur, March 5, 2002
One compromise between the processor load of the typical IDE drive and the cost
of SCSI drives is to invest in a high-end IDE RAID card. (A currently-shipping
example is the Adaptec ATA RAID 2400A.) These cards include a dedicated RAID
processor (often an Intel i960-family chip), thus presenting a much smaller load to
the main processor in the computer.
-- Dan Tremitiere, March 14, 2002
Rather than giving a direct feedback to the article, I would rather talk about my
own experience with regards digital darkroom equipment. I have a Mac G4 with
640 MB RAM and 40 G drive. I have an Epson 1280 printer that can print up to
13" x 19" and a midrange Epson Scanner. I use MIS archival dye/pigment inks on
Somerset Archival Photo Enhanced (Textured Finish) watercolor paper. The prints
I get from this set up are museum quality comparable to very expensive giclee that
one can get from service bureaus. BTW, gicleé prints are in reality just prints
printed in expensive inkjet printers using pigment inks on archival fine art
watercolor paper.
Below, are some of the links I went through while doing research on printers, inks
and papers. I hope that you will benefit from these sites as I did.
• http://www.fineartgicleeprinters.org/ • http://www.digitalartsupplies.com/ • http://
www.tssphoto.com • http://www.visual-artists.com/ • http://www.einks.net/lyson.
html • http://www.inksupply.com/index.cfm?source=html/arcnew.html • http://
www.legionpaper.com/digital/resellers.htm • http://www.peimag.com/site_central.
htm
-- Ayos Kah, March 26, 2002
Hi,
I enjoyed this article. I was wondering of anyone could elaborate on the dual
monitors. How is it done. Besides a monitor, what do you need.
Andrew
-- Andrew Delianides, March 26, 2002
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