I was laser #printing a #sewing pattern this afternoon, opened the rear exit to allow the heavy cardstock to come out flatter without having to curve around the rollers when my printer displays an error saying that double-sided printing is disabled this way. Realizing my print settings must have been incorrect, I cancelled the print job and re-printed it, but forgot to select “100% scale” instead of the default "scale to fit”… @sewing
Anyone got any knowledge of good printers particularly suitable for high-quality printing things like cards, pin badge art, posters, etc? Thanks in advance! #art#printing#AskFedi
florid poem by Col. J. J. von Scheler in honor of the 54th birthday [when you're an enlightened despit, it doesn't have to be a round number] of Duke Carl Eugen of Württemberg
Small folio from the presses of Court Printer Christoph Friedrich Cotta the elder, Stuttgart
Huge update: its FUNDED!! and following some advice theres now stretch goals & ways to add additional copies to ones' order. Keep boosting so i can make the best bird book i can!!
Taken with a Bronica S2 camera and Fuji Acros film, printed using Moersch Easylith chemicals. I believe I used old Foma paper for the darkroom print, but I don't remember the specifics.
I only printed perhaps half a dozen (or fewer) images using the Lith process; this was the most successful one. I've always intended to do more. I love the way Lith prints look. So much texture.
Come to the Anarchist #DIY#publishing meet-up 10th of April where we gather around our book-info store!
We want to:
⭐ Generate a space where we can find reflection materials and editions (#books, #fanzine, #magazines, #pamphlets) that are an extension of the ideas and struggles in which we believe and participate.
⭐ Organize #workshops that actively encourage the do-it-yourself #layout, #printing and #binding.
#HP said in January that it hoped and dreamed to make #printing a #subscription. Now, the company has done just that, with the All-In Plan that allows HP customers a limited number of printed pages per month for a monthly fee, with a two-year commitment and potential overage charges, too. #printers
Somehow our uni printing backend turned my 6MB PDF into 10 GIGABYTES... How? I have no idea. I had my worst printing experience today and got home with only 80% of what I wanted to print out 💀 It works normally but today (after giving up on uploading and using a USB stick) I had my funds run out mid-printing, then after that had the color run out mid-printing and after that it said I have no funds even though I charged my account again! #print#printing#uni#studying#computerscience#tech
My mom was having so many issues printing on her computer (Windows). I had her email me the doc, pulled out my computer (Linux), and immediately printed without any issues. This is how it begins!
German inventor and craftsman Johannes Gutenberg died #OTD in 1468.
His early printing process, and what texts he printed with movable type, are not known in great detail. His later Bibles were printed in such a way as to have required large quantities of type, some estimates suggesting as many as 100,000 individual sorts. In the following decades, punches and copper matrices became standardized in the rapidly disseminating printing presses across Europe. via @wikipedia
Found this place pretty much by chance, but it was really interesting. It gives a great idea of the challenges of printing Japanese before advent of the computer age and desktop publishing (one needs to select from more than 2,500 characters!). We also did a fun hands-on experience printing color on a bookmark with a manual letterpress, and had coffee decorated with topical latte art.
(And before anyone asks, yeah, I tried it through GNOME/the graphical settings app. This is the only thing that worked, using a legacy driver that I had to scroll though a list of thousands of entries to find in a – thank fuck it exists – legacy web interface from what looks like circa 1993, which I’m informed is not going to exist for much longer.)
I suspect that the introduction of moveable type to Germany greatly contributed to both witchcraft panics and anti-Jewish pogroms.
Even before the first actual, regular newspaper was published in 1604, Germany was rife with "news sheets" that printed all sorts of lurid and fantastical tales in order to increase sales. Think of modern-day tabloids or FOX News at their worst. And all those tales must be true, or else they wouldn't have been printed, right?
Some of the tales are rather amusing (like the Sankt Andreasberg cat that gave birth to 300 kittens and a goat in a single night while under the influence of a comet). But then there's a tale of a Jew who supposedly tried to "torture" blessed altar bread and, when he could not destroy it "with fire or water", he tried to "bake it into a cake". And then the dough became red, and he beheld a vision of Baby Jesus within the oven...
Such tales took on lives of their own, and helped keep all sorts of bigotries alive. Just like modern-day social media do...
(By the way, if anyone can give me some recommendations for scholarly works on the early era of mass printing, I am all ears - so far, I've mainly picked up individual anecdotes.) #printing#witchcraft#antisemitism#history
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After a full year of not thinking about printers, the best printer is still whatever random Brother laser printer that’s on sale.