Category: Printers

  • 100 fonts with top character

    Again, I come back to the issue of free fonts of great quality. DaFont holds links to hundreds of character fonts readily downlodable for both Mac and PC. Usually, this leads to a bunch of crap fonts. Here, the top 100 list is really of impressive quality. Waltograph is copying Walt Disney’s signature, Evanescence is…

  • Free fonts – Maximum quantity

    After posting previously about 25 top quality fonts, I also got a link to an interesting web site providing a LOT of free fonts. It does not mean that they are all useful, interesting or good-looking, but you have some impressive choice: 13,000+ fonts in one search engine. SearchFreeFonts

  • Supersize your images

    If you ever dreamed of printing images in much larger size than what your personal printer allows (let’s say 3′ by 6′), you have either to buy a very expensive printer or use a very expensive photo printing service. You see the common words here: very expensive. The Rasterbator creates huge, rasterized images from any…

  • Cover your iPod nano in paper

    Some people wish they could cover their precious iPod nano with a decorated paper. The first solution is merely to go and buy to Sector29. But, I really think that $19,95 is a little too much for a piece of colored and folded paper. The solution? Do it yourself without spending so much. Use the…

  • The 8.6 giga-pixel image

    In the rush for higher resolution images, HAL9000 Iconos has a significant advance over the competition with its 8600 mega-pixel image. They obtained this enormous image by assembling it from 1145 individual photos of about 12 Mega-Pixel each. The result is on the Italian web site of HaltaDefinizione.com and it is impressive. You can also…

  • Top quality free fonts

    Plenty of web sites try to attract you with free fonts (or other free items) and fail to deliver this. If you are lucky you will find a couple of ugly (but still free) fonts. Now, it is quite exceptional to find true top-quality fonts on the web. Vitaly Friedman just did this on his…

  • Canon EOS 30D new firmware

    Version 1.0.5 fixes a bug around wrongly displaying the number of continuous shots which can be taken and adds a semi-gloss paper option for direct printing (on PIXMA Pro9000 and other PictBridge-compatible printers). Download the new firmware, copy it on a memory card and the Canon EOS 30D will update itself on startup.

  • Black & White profile for color printer

    Who was not hurt by the weird colors of a digital print? Often, the solution is to use the right color profile from the printer manufacturer (depending on paper, ink, printer, etc.). But it is not always enough. If you have an old printer, you may not find the color profiles; If you use generic…

  • Your photo on a pillow

    This is the product offering of an American company (TreasureKnit). You can ask them to knit a plaid, or the surface of a pillow or a blanket starting from the photographic image that you would provide. Even better than the large format prints, here comes tailor-made tapestry. I doubt it will always produce fine art…