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    Pro100 - Limited knowledge, found banding & tried cleaning... meh

    Try a new Canon cartridge. That will tell you for under $20 if it is the cartridge or something else. My PRO-100 is barely sullied. My intention is to run official Canon inks except for the black and grays. I have those ready from PC. My philosophy is that if you are running a "pro" printer...
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    20 Years in 30 days fading test

    The latest in my series of tests in the Florida sun. As before, Canon PRO-100 CLI-42 ink images taped to windows on the SW side of the house. Not as before, the windows are now open, so the angularity in relationship to the sun is more direct. Probably a nuance and not critical to the...
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    Is Cartridge Refilling Dying?

    I got a "new" pro camcorder, ca. 2000. I downloaded the manual from Sony, set it up to print two pages to each side of a sheet of paper, print from the back, voila! Took it to Staples for a $3 binding, I'm happy. Thank you Canon!
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    Is Cartridge Refilling Dying?

    I looked up "nuff nuffs" and I found, "Passive, led around by their nose rings consumers without a sense of moral or social obligations or having a whit of creativity, hell bent for living a life of the lowest common denominator. See: http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/" Was my source close?
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    Is Cartridge Refilling Dying?

    I think home photo printing is on the Big Wain. Why print photos when quantity on your "device" is more important that selection and quality? In my small city of 50,000 plus surrounding county, Walgreens has shut all the minilabs except one. The closed ones are now drop-off sites. They...
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    Is Cartridge Refilling Dying?

    Can't see any reason to disagree, barfl2. I hope to keep my CLI-8 iP4500 and CLI-42 PRO-100 going for many, many years. And I have a backup iP4300.
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    Is Cartridge Refilling Dying?

    So, how do you think that complicated, highly engineered, amazing thing you call your inkjet printer is priced so low? You may feel ripped off on the cartridges, but did you write Canon a letter thanking them for selling their printers so inexpensively? Mr. Gillette of razor fame figured out...
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    Technique for making prints with text and borders

    Google's Picasa does 80-90% of what I need to do, quickly and intuitively. Easy to email an image from. Biggest complaint is the lack of some traditional right click functions, but they are doable from the menus on top. Limited printing templates. Irfanview for the quick look and a hundred...
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    Technique for making prints with text and borders

    I'm adverse to Adobe for a number of reasons, the most prominent being I utterly lack Adobe DNA. By that I mean, for me, the total opposite of intuitive. Nothing makes sense to me. This goes back almost 20 years. I just recently revisited Elements 8 that came with my Canon 9000. I can't...
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    OBA or FWA good or bad? UV-cut or not?

    @Roy, I've suspected just what you say, but without actual proof or reading about it. I come across old bond and note paper because I live in The Verizzo Family Ancestral Estate, as I jokingly call this house of 55 years. And not one piece even very cheap paper is yellowed or falling apart.
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    Technique for making prints with text and borders

    Your rant stands on firm typographic ground, and I enjoyed it. Especially can appreciate your refusal to pay MS again. I don't see MS Comic Sans anywhere...........except in my informal letters. Hmmm...... Although I stick to one font per piece, no borders. For my text on photo prints, I...
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    Technique for making prints with text and borders

    YOU may want different border adjustments, I don't. Why you think a person needs the aforementioned programs is beyond me. As is your sense of modesty. This is 2015, not 1915.
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    Technique for making prints with text and borders

    I'm sure you are right, except...........as explained, some kind of bug about margins in WordPerfect. Yes, I know it is and I'm a dinosaur, but I've yet to find anything better for me. I won't pay the extortion fee to MS to legally use Word (overlooking the new Word online progams), and I find...
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    Technique for making prints with text and borders

    OK, but why would I want to spend big money and learn a whole new software to do what I do just fine in LibreOffice?
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    Technique for making prints with text and borders

    The Album function has a few very limited pre-made formats. Birthday, Wedding, stuff like that.
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    OBA or FWA good or bad? UV-cut or not?

    Actually, Smile, very rarely. The only papers where inherent paper pH would play a role are ones not PE/resin coated. Yes, there are a lot of "art" papers out there, but I would like to believe that the Inkjet Press, Hannemuhls, Red Rivers have vetted the basic paper stocks. Non PE coated...
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    No Difference in My Pigment Ink Fade Test.

    The South Florida Print Hades continues...... A "behind glass" batch is on the rack right now.
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    How the thickness of paper affects printing

    A very interesting observation! You didn't mention the printer models. Are these "consumer" types with only the standard top/rear feed, or "pro" types with a single sheet only rear feed? 350 gsm is some fat cellulose!
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    Colour fading in food dyes worse than in printer dyes

    I bought the high gamut PRO-100 version............
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    Printer Test Images

    I haven't printed it. I just noticed while on the screen there were jaggies. I guess it doesn't really matter if they are there or not for this purpose.
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