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Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution

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On 2017-04-20 13:26:03 +0000, "James Wilkinson Sword" 
<imvalid@somewear.com> said:

> On Sat, 15 Apr 2017 22:55:48 +0100,  wrote:
> 
>> On 2017-04-15 20:55:25 +0000, "James Wilkinson Sword"
>> <imvalid@somewear.com> said:
>> 
>>> On Sat, 15 Apr 2017 21:49:08 +0100,  wrote:
>>>> On 2017-04-15 18:48:14 +0000, "James Wilkinson Sword"
>>>> <imvalid@somewear.com> said:
>>>>> On Wed, 12 Apr 2017 05:41:19 +0100,  wrote:
>>>>>> On 2017-04-12 03:44:10 +0000, Mark Lloyd <not@mail.invalid> said:
>>>>>>> On 04/11/2017 04:43 PM, Savageduck wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> [snip]
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> For many good photo printers you will usually find 6 or more inks. My
>>>>>>>> Epson uses 8 UltraChrome K3 inks; Photo Black, Light Black, Light Light
>>>>>>>> Black, Yellow, Vivid Magenta, Vivid Light Magenta, Cyan, Light Cyan, and
>>>>>>>> when using matte paper Photo Black is exchanged for Matte Black. The
>>>>>>>> newer photo printers user 10 tanks.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Is light black like dark white?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Perhaps the "Light Light Black" would be closer to that description,
>>>>>> but I have never made a print isolated to that ink, so who knows. I
>>>>>> have never thought of it as a "dark white". However, printing a
>>>>>> graduated grey scale using the three blacks; Black, Light Black, and
>>>>>> Light Light Black produces a smoother grad, and gives better shadow to
>>>>>> light transitions, especially with toning in B&W prints.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> That idea can be seen in this shot:
>>>>>> <https://www.dropbox.com/s/c79h3ryxhxp2tu9/DSC_3427-Edit-2.jpg>
>>>>> 
>>>>> I just printed that on photo paper at max quality (it took 5 minutes)
>>>>> with 4 inks.  It looks perfect (well as good as the image on the
>>>>> screen).  Either it's jpeg compressed too much, or I can see artefacts
>>>>> from your CCD.  If you look for example in the top left corner, you can
>>>>> clearly see where the shades of grey change.  If you zoom in, it looks
>>>>> like JPEG artefacts (blockyness).
>>>> 
>>>> You might have noted that image is a resized, 666KB 1476 x 980 JPEG
>>>> intended for the purpose of illustrating a gradient on screen, not for
>>>> the production of a print.
>>> 
>>> It doesn't illustrate it very well, as it's low quality.
>>> 
>>>> So whatever you printed was hardly at "max
>>>> quality" regardless of the number of inks used,
>>> 
>>> It certainly was, the printer was set to the highest setting of 5.
>>> 
>>>> or the time it took
>>>> your printer to grind out a print. I would never use that particular
>>>> file for printing, and I was not about to post a link to a 73MB 4288 x
>>>> 2848 PSD which is what I have printed from.
>>> 
>>> So why not link to something that's a decent test?  I've got broadband
>>> you know, I can download a large image....
>> 
>> Think about it. Why would anybody care to share a full quality image
>> file with a stranger.
> 
> To make your point.
> 
>> I have no problem posting image files for
>> illustrative or demo, but those are going to be resized and somewhat
>> compressed.
> 
> Why?

Think about it, perhaps the answer will come to you.

-- 
Regards,

Savageduck

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Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-15 19:48 +0100
  Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2017-04-15 13:49 -0700
    Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-15 21:55 +0100
      Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-15 17:03 -0400
        Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-15 22:47 +0100
          Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-15 19:10 -0400
            Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-22 18:31 +0100
      Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2017-04-15 14:55 -0700
        Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-20 14:26 +0100
          Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2017-04-20 07:26 -0700
            Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-20 15:31 +0100

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