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      How badly do you want to contiue using PressReady? <

Ho, 

I'm coming to the conclusion that it's best to consider options that don't include PressReady! 

My PC is about three and a half years old, a P3 450, so not desperate to be changed, but will need to be eventually. One solution is to find a PC manufacturer that would provide a dual boot win 2K / XP system, but if the rumours are true about April being the cut off date for a manufacturer to ship Win 2K on a system, it puts a time constraint on it (I currently run a Win 98 / 2K dual boot system --- replacing W98 with W2K would have invalidated my Dell 3 year warranty, which has now expired). 

Coupled with the fact that my Epson 1270, intermittently puts black ink splotches over the paper, a new printer may be in order. 

The Canon S9000 gets very good reviews and the UK Canon web site now recommends the iProof 2000 postscript RIP as a solution for turning it into press proofing with the printer, both of which work with WinXP. I know there have been mixed reviews on here of the iProof RIP, but you can download a trial version to work with the 1270, so at some stage, I will do that. 

Other new printer options are the HP 1700ps and HP designJet 10ps. The latter uses a proper Adobe Postscript 3 RIP, and I think the 1700 also does I�m not sure if you can add custom Press Profiles or are limited to standard SWOP and Euroscale though. 

So I�m beginning to think the best way is to put the PC upgrade off longer so that I can afford a new printer at the same time, or go with a dual boot system, depending on if I could get one and how long Microsoft allows Win2K as an OEM operating system choice. 

Dick