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

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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?

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Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2017-04-11 21:41 -0700
  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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