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Thanks to you both for your effort. As both of you have pointed out, it is most definitely a problem of limited number of levels. Beyond that, I still have not found a setting that affects it, but I will keep trying as I get time. I must say, the industry has made great progress. The...

Yes, the subject has morphed, Mr. Hat, but I'm learning something. :) I like Macs too. They're purty. Purty but unrepairable. :D

CakeHole, thanks, I just saw your post. I'll have to digest it later. I think upscaling can be done properly, however, because I've seen it on an LG (played through an unknown DVD player, however). A DVD video must be upscaled somewhere in the chain in order to display it, unless I want to...

Thanks. That's quite a resource that I wasn't aware of, and I'm sure there are differences between TVs. Nevertheless, the explanations I've seen don't make any sense. Upscaling is just interpolation, and nothing about interpolation should make the image blocky. The resolution over most of...

Do you know why this is? I just bought a 4K TV, and upscaling from 480 (DVD) to 1080 makes it look blocky. Not pixelly, but blocky. It looks exactly like an image that's too highly compressed. My 1080 computer monitor has no such problem with the same source (even if I put my face up close...

That deal is long gone, but there will probably be two more to take its place. I'm happy to gloat about this, but don't feel too bad. The flip side of living here is that now they're going to court to try to take away our health insurance.

Yes, I'll betya they can be Freedom filled without even blinking.

For postcards? It's reputed to be top-notch (I have one still in the box), but quite slow. By the way, The Hat is onto something. The photo paper I have can be printed on one side only.

Here it is. https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=WO2013112125 I can't imagine any reason why this couldn't be refilled.

I don't know if these bacteria need light, but it seems like a good precaution to store ink in total darkness. There is, unfortunately, one other thing to keep in mind. Those of you who use a CIS and are bothered by air in the lines should know that air becomes more soluble as the temperature...

You beat me to it, Mr. Hat. I do note that a CIS unit is supposed to be all right as long as the intake isn't on the bottom, where some of the pigment settles and clogs the intake. It is possible to build a unit with an intake that consists simply of a small tube coming in from the top. CIS...

The first thing is, I don't know why you want a duplex unit. It takes time for the ink to dry before the duplex unit can flip the page. A LOT of time if you are doing a lot of prints. I also suspect that card stock would not work well with a duplex unit. If you're printing postcards, you...

Mikling says he found bacterial growth in a new bottle that came straight from the manufacturer.

Ahem. It's hard to imagine how the sky could be any more interesting. I suppose that cloud over on the right could have a bit more detail. I can't judge it against the competition, since I don't know who was there, but apparently the judges must have been stark raving mad. Well done, Roy...

PlusTek makes several scanners that are specially built for books. They have a wide variety of price ranges, but all are cheap compared to the competition. Also, look at the do-it-yourself scanner forum.

I missed this thread, but what's stopping you, Nifty? Why not just open for business and see if anything lands there. I don't know anything about them and have no plans to get them, but I'll bet toolman can be tempted to get one and entertain us. And then I can send him that broken plastic...

I'm not sure any of the suppliers engineer their ink for matched fading. In this case, gray or black fading is unlikely to affect the color balance a lot. I don't know about this ink set or this cartridge set, but of all the dye inks I have tested, all the third-party black inks have all been...

Wow, there's a lot of good stuff in this thread. :)

Mike, your shipping costs are almost uniquely economical because you are willing to ship by mail. That is very much appreciated, considering that we're all refilling to save money. Unfortunately, mail to the U.S. can be unreasonably slow (like 3 weeks or something), but private shipping would...