Digital BW, The Print

Firstly, a belated thank you to everyone on the list who helped me out
with advice.

After some fairly extensive trialling, I decided to go with Idimager
rather than Imatch or any of the others.  The reasons were:

- Idimager has a few useful features that Imatch doesn't - such as
archiving of images to removable media (with an inbuilt burning
facility); versions and ratings;

- the responsiveness of the author to suggestions and bugs is
fantastic.   Most of the bugs reported have been fixed inside a week -
sometimes days.  Not only that, but the author will happily add
features in response to suggestions - again, often within a week.  The
contrast to Imatch in this regard, is stark.  

- there are few useful features of imatch and bridge that idimager
doesn't have (yet) (e.g variable size for viewing of thumbs; bridge
'slide show' function for quickly rating & rotating images) but the
commitment to development means that this is likely to change in the
not too distant future;

- previous versions were a little slow on drawing up images but this
is now largely fixed.

Anyway, thanks again

Regards
Gareth