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

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On Wed, 12 Apr 2017 01:20:30 +0100,  wrote:

> On 2017-04-12 00:04:23 +0000, "James Wilkinson Sword"
> <imvalid@somewear.com> said:
>
>> On Tue, 11 Apr 2017 23:50:14 +0100,  wrote:
>>> On 2017-04-11 22:34:22 +0000, "James Wilkinson Sword"
>>> <imvalid@somewear.com> said:
>>>> On Tue, 11 Apr 2017 23:29:57 +0100,  wrote:
>>>>> On 2017-04-11 22:07:10 +0000, "James Wilkinson Sword"
>>>>> <imvalid@somewear.com> said:
>>>>>> On Tue, 11 Apr 2017 22:43:47 +0100,  wrote:
>>>>>>> On 2017-04-11 21:23:38 +0000, "James Wilkinson Sword"
>>>>>>> <imvalid@somewear.com> said:
>>>>>>>> On Tue, 11 Apr 2017 21:12:54 +0100, Mark Lloyd <not@mail.invalid> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 04/10/2017 07:09 PM, nospam wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> [snip]
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> it's cyan. it's not light blue. that's why it's called cyan ink and not
>>>>>>>>>> light blue ink.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I used to have a printer with SIX ink cartridges. IIRC they were cyan,
>>>>>>>>> light cyan, magenta, light magenta, yellow, black.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Mine has NO ink cartridges.  You actually buy a new little plastic
>>>>>>>> container all the time?  I have huge tanks sat on the desk beside it.
>>>>>>>> When one looks a bit low, I pour some in from a bottle.  Equivalent to
>>>>>>>> 3p (4c) a cartridge.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> So you don't give a damn when it comes to color printing?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Why would having the ink in a different container change the colour output?!
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And it makes no difference at all to the output.  All you need is
>>>>>> decent paper and fine ink nozzles.
>>>>>
>>>>> ...and a color managed workflow with a properly calibrated system.
>>>>
>>>> Printer manufacturers must love you.
>>>
>>> ...and yet I can produce superb color prints from my dedicated Epson
>>> photo printer, and fairly good color prints from my general purpose
>>> Epson "all-in-one" printer.
>>>
>>> What do you use for your photo prints?
>>
>> An Epson with 4 colours, on decent paper, in the mode with the highest
>> resolution.  They look just like photos from a 35mm camera done in a
>> professional lab.
>
> An Epson 4 color printer is going to give you acceptable, sometimes
> very good color prints, but in no way the best photo reproduction. My
> general document and occasional photo printer is an Epson XP-610, a 4
> color printer capable of producing good photo prints no larger than
> 8"x10". However, there is no comparison when I compare what it produces
> against my 8 color photo printer, especially when using high quality
> papers, and matching printer/paper specific icc profiles in my color
> managed workflow.

If I set mine to maximum quality (which takes fucking ages) it's perfect quality.

> As for making prints look just like those from a 35mm camera, that sort
> of degradation is easily done with software.

I take it you didn't have a professional SLR 35mm camera.

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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 19:06 +0100
  Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-15 14:45 -0400
  Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2017-04-15 13:22 -0700
    Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-15 21:52 +0100
      Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2017-04-15 14:50 -0700

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