From: "Elson T. Elizaga" : I read a book about digital printing once. It said the promise that : computers would save time is a myth. That goes for any kind of program. I had a guy in the shop once who'd been through 3 printers and was totally frustrated with his B&W printing, after asking, he confessed that he still had his darkroom so I suggested he give it a go after so long away from it. He came back a week or so later with the biggest grin and the best black and whites I'd seen from him in ages and told me he'd forgotten how quick and cheap darkroom work could be ;) : In a government office years ago, we used to have one computer for 30 : people. We were happy because it enabled us to process quickly the : reports from the rural offices which were using only typewriters. When : they got their computers, we were flooded with a huge amount of reports. : So, we had to upgrade -- more computers and networks to tell those guys : what they had to do, and more reports coming in from them. :) It's funny watching folks haul out a notebook, wait for it to boot, load *word* and then type notes when those beside them have taken out a pencil and jotted the note down before boot completed. horses for courses - computers are fine tools for some tasks, apalling for others, yet people keep finding ways to use their computer to do perfectly simple things for no reason other than they have the thing k
