Category: Printers
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Blog action day: Save the planet, energy-saving computer tricks
Today is Blog Action Day: The day that bloggers chose to try and help save the planet from the impact of Human activity. For my own part, I decided to collect a few ideas to save energy in your computer usage: Upgrade your gear Dim your screen Consolidate and virtualize computers Turn off peripherals Kill…
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12 monochrome laser printers
12 monochrome laser printers compared by Tom’s Hardware. These are not the printers that grab all media attention, but a mere B&W laser printer can reduce significantly your printing budget and they come at really low prices.
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Color laser printers: 12 to compare
It is already an old tradition of this site that we keep repeating that color laser printers, without being able to do full photo-quality printing, progressed to the point where they are priced reasonably (often less than $300 and with a price-per-page that is strictly out of range for inkjet printers). Beyond the comparisons already…
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BibliOdyssey, a quality library
BibliOdyssey is a web site about art in antique prints. You love books, you love quality books, you must stay tuned to BibliOdyssey. Today, I just want to point to one single impressive post there: Drawing on the Renaissance.
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Inkjet impressions will be dead soon
Previous articles about inkjet printing 2005 highlights about inkjet printing (including prints longevity). Canada’s National Archive experts are worried that we don’t have enough knowledge about how inkjet prints age. They fear that most of them will die early because the dried ink is much more exposed to external stresses than the pigments of traditional…
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Color-blindness and software specification
Do you happen to know that 5% of all male population is actually affected by some form of color-blindness (females are much less prone to it). It means that plenty of activities that tend to rely on color identification by the user is significantly flawed for about 2-3% of the user population. This can become…
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Comparison of A3+ inkjet pigment printers
Choosing a photographic inkjet printer able to produce high-end A3+ printsis not an easy task even though the list of candidates is much more limited than for A4+ sizes. Nevertheless, as prices are steep, it’s worth avoiding errors. This makes the comparison done by our firends at photo-i the more interesting. They oppose three impressive…
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Dye sublimation explained
I previously wrote about the various techniques used for inkjet printing, but a good reader (thanks Daniel!) made me notice that there is a technique less common than the usual dye-based or pigment inks. I admit easily that I did not know it before. But it is a slightly older technique that was used by…
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Wallhogs: Big prints for your walls
Essentially, Wallhogs is accepting your picture files to prepare special prints of large size: Decals, that would be nice to stick on a wall or on your fridge Posters (you know that don’t you?) Canvas prints, that would mimic a canvas paint