Linux is not good for Desktop

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 04 March 2014 09:56:07 David Fletcher did opine:

> On Tue, 2014-03-04 at 08:51 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Sorry, I can't concur.  I am currently running two Brothers, on their
> > own linux drivers, an HL2140 B&W laser, and a HL3170CDW.  The B&W
> > Just Works(TM), the color I am still fine tuning the colors of
> > although part of
> 
> HL-3040CN works fine for me but I only use it for occasional documents.
> Photo printing just isn't worth screwing around with. When I need prints
> I take the files around to Asda Walmart and they do it on a proper photo
> printer for very little money.
> 
> On the original topic, it depends on what desktop you're using. I hate
> Unity, but Mate works just fine for me.
> 
> Dave

In my defense, I should note that my history in color photography gets 
started back in the late 60,'s, doing my own darkroom work using chemical 
development, with the color paper developer being a concoction I put 
together myself until well into the late 80's.  I can look at a print that 
I am about to sell someone and say to myself, this one needs another cc05m 
dialed into the dichro head on my Besseler 23C enlarger.  I am Picky about 
what I sell IOW.  I have shot weddings, and sold the spread, printed on an 
Epson C-82 printer.  Epson, despite claiming the later cxx printers used 
the same inks, none of them was ever able to match the color accuracy I got 
from the C-82. Those prints have held the correct color over the years 
unlike ANY chemical process with the exception of Cibachrome. But 
Cibachrome was never that accurate either.  Like HP inks, the reds are 
orange.  Blues are a tad shifted to cyan too.

Unfortunately the chemistry involved in Cibachrome is an environmental 
disaster on a scale with the chemical etching of printed circuit boards 
(ferric chloride is truly NASTY stuff) in addition to being about 5x more 
expensive than Unicolor even after I made my own developer.

Cheers, Gene
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