Digital BW, The Print

At 3:47 PM +0000 5/22/03, jim hayes wrote:
>[snip] ... as I moved my head (mine, not printhead) up and down 
>under my OTT-lite, the streaks moved! It turned out my progressive 
>glasses created a tiny difraction line which just looked like roller 
>marks! So an oldish guy is baffled again by his (progressive) 
>bifocals!!<g> [snip]


But "progressive" lenses - specifically polarized SOLA/Sola's or 
Varilux - have been recommended to me, both for viewing the screen 
and for other close but variable-distance viewing, not just of prints 
but also of something being photographed from a short distance away, 
topographic maps on the screen of a notebook computer in the 
passenger seat, etc.

So I'd appreciate any advice about any or all of this, especially 
since both with and without my old glasses, I found the entries in 
the Photoshop palettes dismayingly small on Apple's LCDs on a recent 
visit to an Apple Store.

I had assumed I could change the resolution to make the palettes' 
entries larger and more legible. But was told Adobe hadn't provided 
for that and shown that on LCD displays that just makes the palettes' 
entries fuzzy as well as larger.

That dismayed me because I'd like to replace my old desktop with a 
new dual-display notebook and use the notebook's LCD display for the 
palettes. For the image, I thought I'd use Sony's Artisan Color 
Reference monitor. It's a CRT but at less than 21 inches diagonally I 
don't think it would accomodate both the palettes and a near 
life-size image to be printed as large as 11 x 14.

So I'm hoping for an eyeglasses upgrade which will make Photoshop 
palettes on a notebook's LCD display legible for me. Hopefully 
without also making non-existant roller marks legible for me!

Thanks for any help with this.

Sam