Digital BW, The Print

In a message dated 11/26/06 10:45:29 PM, deanwork2003@... writes:


> I already have 4 Macs.  It is a hell of a lot cheaper to buy a $500.00
> Pentium machine for running a printer than 2 grand for a Dual Core
> Powerbook. But in the long term your right, we're all one happy
> family. It was hilarious to see the MicroSoft booth at Photo Exp only
> using Mac Powerbooks. I guess they want to make friends with all us
> old bigoted Mac people.
> 
> Microsoft held their first "Pro Photo Summit" this last summer (it was a 
great event, I certainly hope they hold another), and invited two to three hundred 
people that they considered major industry influencers in this area. One of 
the first questions asked of this assemblage (which was liberally seeded with 
Microsoft employees as well) was "How many of you work on the Mac"... I was a 
bit suprised to see well over half the audience raise their hands. I guess at 
the high end, the ratio is more Mac-centric. The response to this show of hands 
was "We're well aware that we have our work cut out for us." 

My solution for taking the ColorVision products with me to Redmond was 
exactly what they chose for PhotoPLUS; I loaded XP under BootCamp on a MacBook Pro, 
and loaded the Windows versions there, as well as the Mac versions that I 
already had on the OS X drive partition. Very portable; no more carrying two 
laptops! Parallels is more convenient than a Boot Camp reboot, but thats not really 
sufficient for demoing in Redmond, and also doesn't technically show monitor 
calibration correctly, as the calibration corrections are the ones from the 
Mac monitor profile, while the profile for the window is the one from the 
Windows monitor profile, which does the trick, in a practical sense, but is not 
really appropriate for demoing monitor calibration.

C. David Tobie
Product Technology Manager
ColorVision Business Unit
Datacolor Inc.
CDTobie@...
www.colorvision.com


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