My Epson 1500W printer failed last year, leaving me, as always, with a load of ink which I can no longer use. Having had two Epson printers I decided to change horses and get a Canon IP8750. So far I’m finding it a good printer. My main gripe is that paper sizes are somewhat idiosyncratic. It’s very much geared to…
A plugin which I always install on websites now is Limit Login Attempts Reloaded (there’s an earlier one, Limit Login Attempts, which hasn’t been updated for some time). As well as doing what it says, it also gives visibility to how hard the website is being hit by login attempts. This site often gets targetted and yesterday there were more…
This site has been languishing for over 3 years so I’m now coming back to it. A number of things had gone wrong due, I think, to WordPress being updated and leaving the theme behind. I’ve rebuilt it using the Blocksy theme, which I’ve used now on several websites, and have switched to a different photo gallery package. No new…
Earlier this year I replaced my Panasonic G1 with the G7. The main motivation for this was the expectation that the newer camera would have lower sensor noise at high sensitivities. The highest setting is 25,600 compared with 3,200 on the G1. I’ve found that the noise is not really noticeable up to 1600 and above that images are still…
This website uses a child theme based on the Inkness theme. I decided this morning to update the Inkness theme (from 1.0.3.1 to 1.0.4.4) – what a disaster! It had completely changed. Most dramatically the banner image disappeared along with the theme settings page. So I had to upload the files for the old version of the theme and set…
As reported in my last post, I am now trying out ‘Think’ inks in my Epson 1500W. Having just had printer profiles made for 3 papers using the Ink Express inks which I’ve now abandoned, I was a bit embarrassed to go back to the paper supplier for more profiles, so I turned to Profile Prism, which I haven’t used…
In a previous post I reported favourably on my experience with refillable ink cartridges. Unfortunately this didn’t last. On first use they were fine, but as soon as I had to take one out and refill it, I started getting problems with blocked nozzles (i.e. lines across the print). After conversations with the supplier it seems that this was caused…
In addition to photography I have an interest in developing websites. This site uses the Inkness theme (with one or two tweaks) but I have written themes from scratch, so I’ll be making posts from time to time on this subject. WordPress is now the most popular platform worldwide for websites and that inevitably means that it is a target…
In my last post I praised my new Epson SP1500W printer. The downside is the cost of ink. With the first set of cartridges I kept a tally of the number of prints made, ignoring the occasional document which doesn’t use much ink. The colours ran out at different times but the average was the equivalent of 20 A3 prints…
I currently use Pinnacle papers from Paper Spectrum (www.paperspectrum.co.uk), which leads to the question of what are the correct printer settings? For glossy paper the printer setup has a choice of: Glossy, Premium Glossy, Ultra Glossy or just plain Photo Quality Inkjet. I found a useful test image on the Northlight Images website (www.northlight-images.co.uk). This prints squares from 0,0,0 (black)…