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Rob, With Adaptec, it's "love 'em or leave 'em", I guess! I'm amazed that the output of the 300 dpi printer you saw was as good as it looked to you. Think of this. If you have a 10 x 10 dot area (100 dots) that needs to be 1% cyan, there will be ONE DOT somewhere in that area. And at 300 dpi, that's a pretty big area! I've come to realize this with my HP 550C, which does a darn good job for an outlay of around $650. The 550C is a 24 bit printer, too. Plain paper! For printing photographic images as a hobby it's great, but for a pro it would be only good for proofs. I thing it would be great around the shop, though, as you can get the proofs pretty good before you send out to the service bureau to get the finished stuff done. Now for $10K, I would hope something better than 300 dpi would be coming along soon. A res of 600 dpi would look lots better, but it will probably take 1200 to be acceptable for pro output. I'm dreaming… Just trying to scrape for a little more RAM. Then there are all the other things I 'need'… <g> Dave McKeen