Re: printer opinions

2016-01-24 Thread Todd Cole
*I will second Brother Printers MFC line and ADS scanners are second to nonewe have 5 printers and two scanners and only one repair in the last 5 yearsand work with Windows OSX and Linux but the software is proprietary so that isthe only draw back. At home I have a MFC-9440CN that I bought used thr

Re: printer opinions

2016-01-24 Thread Wayne D
(I) have switched to "Brother" exclusively (3 lasers, 1 inkjet and a ADS-2000 scanner. They all have performed flawlessly with no jams. Inkjets SUCK if you don't use them consistently. The latent ink in the heads and tubes dry out and trash the printer. If ever I decide (I) need color again, (

Re: printer opinions

2016-01-24 Thread Stephen Partington
What are you doing with it? On Jan 24, 2016 9:54 PM, "Bob Holtzman" wrote: > My old HP gave up the ghost so I'm in the market. Reading the reviews it > seems that HP quality has gone down the tubes lately, especially in the > low and mid levels. Epson had decent reviews but 6 ink cartridges? Give

printer opinions

2016-01-24 Thread Bob Holtzman
My old HP gave up the ghost so I'm in the market. Reading the reviews it seems that HP quality has gone down the tubes lately, especially in the low and mid levels. Epson had decent reviews but 6 ink cartridges? Give me a break. I'd like some opinions from the group on printers in general and HP v

Re: jpg or tiff

2016-01-24 Thread Michael
thanks On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 10:06 PM, Stephen Partington wrote: > tiff https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagged_Image_File_Format > jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG > > saves me some typing. > > On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 8:03 PM, Michael wrote: > >> what about to restore? >> >> On Sun, Jan 2

Re: jpg or tiff

2016-01-24 Thread Stephen Partington
tiff https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagged_Image_File_Format jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG saves me some typing. On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 8:03 PM, Michael wrote: > what about to restore? > > On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 9:58 PM, Stephen Partington > wrote: > >> Tiff for print, JPG for most e

Re: jpg or tiff

2016-01-24 Thread Michael
what about to restore? On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 9:58 PM, Stephen Partington wrote: > Tiff for print, JPG for most else. > > On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 7:40 PM, Michael wrote: > >> which is better? I'm scanning some old photos and need to know which is >> better to restore from. >> >> -- >> :-)~MIKE

Re: jpg or tiff

2016-01-24 Thread Stephen Partington
Tiff for print, JPG for most else. On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 7:40 PM, Michael wrote: > which is better? I'm scanning some old photos and need to know which is > better to restore from. > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > --- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-

jpg or tiff

2016-01-24 Thread Michael
which is better? I'm scanning some old photos and need to know which is better to restore from. -- :-)~MIKE~(-: --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.

Re: darktable

2016-01-24 Thread Parabellum7
Hi Mike, Unfortunately, that sky is pretty blown-out. I don't think anything can be recovered. There's more than one solution here, what I would do is: Ideally, go re-shoot the photo using a circular polarizer. If that's not an option, try the Graduated Density filter in darktable. There's a