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Very impressive. But first comes the Canon Pro 1000. ;) rs

Ah - The Quebec delicacy known as Poutine. Also includes cheese curds with the gravy and fries. Optional extras being a defibrillator on the side and anti-Chlo-restoral medication. It is the dietary secret explaining why our hockey players are the best in the world. :( Seriously, the McDo...

You're correct there. McDonalds is a trademark name like Kodak etc. For Mr MacDonald one can also use the commonly accepted abbreviation Mr McDonald. Such fun the English language. rs

Had to check that your reference was what I thought it was, and it was. Hopefully your name and address was not in her little black book. ;) rs

I was going to reply to this as I like to break rules - but out of respect for @The Hat whos does an oustanding job here I will refrain.

What if you lived in Scotland and your family name was MacDonald? With or without the farm :( I seem to recall a case in Scotland many years ago on this very issue and the judge ruled in favour of Mr MacDonald. Of course one resatauant in one location in his home town. But it illustrates the...

Excellent summary!

rade rade Copyright, franchises, patents, trade-marks, license agrreeements, and such are all fodder for the legal beagles and probably beyond the comprehension of our non legal minds. Maybe one of the reasons there seem to be more lawyers than engineers in Silicone Valley. ;) To me it...

Sounds like a win-win as the saying goes. Amazon makes the big bucks, and Ivanka Trump can now market her jewellry with the help of the CIA and Amazon fulfillment. ;) However, on a more prosaic note and based on the quoted text in the OP. I find it hard to believe that even Jef Bezos'...

Interesting. My recollection is that in the UK market NCR was deemed to stand for NO CARBON REQUIRED, and was marketed under that patented name by the paper merchants. Later as the patent expired or was sold alternative brands appeared, mostly from Asia. Now the generic term is carbonless and...

Welcome. You will find lots of resources and help from the knowledgeable people on this site. Not from me - I just make the snide comments in lieu of real help. I lived for many years in Durban and Pietermaritburg and really miss the weather. Especially around January and February. rs

A mere dusting and you call that snow. From Ottawa, the snowyest (created a new word) capital city in the world. :)

...''ah Banks. Institutions that chain down their pens, but hand over cash with gay abandon. My local banks marketing slogan is, "You are richer than you think". They omit the, "and we are coming to get it" part RS

Those were tha days! The laser printer combined with digital imaging evenually finished off the NCR forms business. Large printing companies specialising in this product range vanished overnight. A few remain to service a fraction of the volume that existed 30 years ago. Eastman Kodak and...

Nice thing about historical facts, everybody has their own version. My first recollection (Yes I am that old and lived through it) was the that the first commercial inkjet style printer was the Iris printer. A large-format color inkjet type printer introduced around 1985 by Iris Graphics in...

... better known as submersible coffins. Ask Mr Hunley. http://www.history.com/news/the-hunleys-daring-submarine-mission-150-years-ago as a small time history buff I find this fascinating. rs

POSTER Back in the day I worked for 50 years in the comercial print world - Offset printing. A world where we purchased ink by the ton. Frequently artists or photogrphers would ask the cost to produce limited edition reproductions of their work. When given the price of several thosand dollars...

One of the first things in Genesis is: “Then God said, ‘Let there be light’; and there was light. God saw that the light was good....” Ever since then, photographers have been complaining about “bad light.” From the opening chapter in Jay Maisels book, "Light, colour, gesture" For me it lets...

Apparently Mark McCormac's long awaited report on the PC inkset for the Pro100 is imminent. Can't remember where I saw the news. Either from one of J. Toolman's excellent video chats, or a posting from MarK himself. rs

DPReview currently has a thread on this print resolution issue titled "Image resolution/quality overrated for most people?" You can find it at: https://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/59772528 You will find an interesting range of opinions, eventually coming back to the definitive, "IT DEPENDS" rs