Cleaning the print heads removes any blockages in the print head nozzles. Clean the print heads if printing is faint or a specific color fails to print.
Aligning the print heads corrects the installation positions of the print heads, lessening deviated colors and lines.
By printing a nozzle check pattern, you can check whether the print heads are working properly. Print the pattern if printing becomes faint or a specific color fails to print.
To prevent smudges on the back side of the paper, executed Bottom Plate Cleaning before you execute duplex printing.
http://www.print-digital.info/articles/printer-maintenance.html
Friday, May 25, 2007
Photo software and image manipulation software
Once you have taken a photo you may decide to make some changes to it, like resizing or cropping the photo. You may get a little more creative and want to change the colour or remove something from the image - like a lamp post in an out side shot! There are many different bits of software on the market that you can buy or use for free, they can range from £20 up to £500 or £600 professional packages such as PhotoShop CS.
IrfanView
Irfanview is a very popular free to download image viewer and audio player. Its not designed to be a full blown image editing peice of software like PhotoShop for example, instead its main features are image resizing, cropping and taking screen shots - and these features can not be faulted, it rivals many of the exspensive bits of professional kit. These are only a few of its many features, its free and a small file size so why not download it from the official website: http://www.irfanview.com/. Irfanview Photoshop
Photoshop
Photoshop has long been the photography industry standard for professionals. There have been 17 upgrades to the software over since febuary 1990 and the most current version is Photoshop CS (version 8). The features that this offers are vast, for digital photos it can offer all you will ever need and more, from colour management, cropping, resizing, cloning with advanced colour spaces and advanced printing. It also provides everything a desktop publisher could wish for and the images that can be created from scratch are only limited to your imagination. For full spec visit the Adobe Photoshop website.
http://www.print-digital.info/articles/photo-software.html
IrfanView
Irfanview is a very popular free to download image viewer and audio player. Its not designed to be a full blown image editing peice of software like PhotoShop for example, instead its main features are image resizing, cropping and taking screen shots - and these features can not be faulted, it rivals many of the exspensive bits of professional kit. These are only a few of its many features, its free and a small file size so why not download it from the official website: http://www.irfanview.com/. Irfanview Photoshop
Photoshop
Photoshop has long been the photography industry standard for professionals. There have been 17 upgrades to the software over since febuary 1990 and the most current version is Photoshop CS (version 8). The features that this offers are vast, for digital photos it can offer all you will ever need and more, from colour management, cropping, resizing, cloning with advanced colour spaces and advanced printing. It also provides everything a desktop publisher could wish for and the images that can be created from scratch are only limited to your imagination. For full spec visit the Adobe Photoshop website.
http://www.print-digital.info/articles/photo-software.html
Kodak's New Inkjet Printer -- and Bold Claims -- Put To The Test
Eastman Kodak's recent entry into the inkjet printer market came with much fanfare and bold claims. Among them: 4x6-inch color prints for as little as 10 cents each. That's up to 50% less than their competitors.
In an exclusive analysis in the Pop Photo Lab, we put Kodak's boasts to the test.
According to Executive Technology Editor Michael J. McNamara, the Kodak EasyShare 5300 All-In-One printer ($199, street) turned out only 165 borderless color photos from an $18 package of paper and ink that is billed as producing 180 photos.
"That's about 11.5 cents per print," said McNamara. "But more importantly, the quality of the prints was so low in color saturation that they could be deemed no better than ‘draft' quality by professional or lab-print standards."
To get what photo enthusiasts would judge "lab-quality" prints, says McNamara, requires more expensive Kodak paper, which boosts the cost to more than 35 cents each.
Hundreds of prints showing a range of colors and subjects were produced on the Kodak unit, and the results were analyzed in the magazine's $1-million-plus testing facility.
To see how the Kodak stacked up against other all-in-ones in a range of prices, McNamara pitted it against units from Epson, Canon, and HP (ranging in price from $150 to $379). The AIOs were tested on various criteria, including printing and scanning quality and speed.
"For the price, the $150 Epson Stylus Photo RX580 features the highest print image quality and extremely fast print speeds," said McNamara. "While the more expensive Canon and HP machines offer high print quality and more features."
"For it's price the Kodak is not the ideal choice for photo enthusiasts," he said.
http://www.popphoto.com/popularphotographyfeatures/4012/kodaks-new-inkjet-printer-and-bold-claims-put-to-the-test.html
In an exclusive analysis in the Pop Photo Lab, we put Kodak's boasts to the test.
According to Executive Technology Editor Michael J. McNamara, the Kodak EasyShare 5300 All-In-One printer ($199, street) turned out only 165 borderless color photos from an $18 package of paper and ink that is billed as producing 180 photos.
"That's about 11.5 cents per print," said McNamara. "But more importantly, the quality of the prints was so low in color saturation that they could be deemed no better than ‘draft' quality by professional or lab-print standards."
To get what photo enthusiasts would judge "lab-quality" prints, says McNamara, requires more expensive Kodak paper, which boosts the cost to more than 35 cents each.
Hundreds of prints showing a range of colors and subjects were produced on the Kodak unit, and the results were analyzed in the magazine's $1-million-plus testing facility.
To see how the Kodak stacked up against other all-in-ones in a range of prices, McNamara pitted it against units from Epson, Canon, and HP (ranging in price from $150 to $379). The AIOs were tested on various criteria, including printing and scanning quality and speed.
"For the price, the $150 Epson Stylus Photo RX580 features the highest print image quality and extremely fast print speeds," said McNamara. "While the more expensive Canon and HP machines offer high print quality and more features."
"For it's price the Kodak is not the ideal choice for photo enthusiasts," he said.
http://www.popphoto.com/popularphotographyfeatures/4012/kodaks-new-inkjet-printer-and-bold-claims-put-to-the-test.html
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