For a dozen years, I’ve owned an Imacon Flextight scanner. It started life as a Precision II, and I bought the Imacon kit that supposedly upgraded it to a Precision III. The kit consisted of a firmware upgrade, a third-party FireWire to SCSI converter, and a stick-on rubber thingy with a “III” on it to… [Read More]
Win 7 Aero & 30 bit color
This morning I noticed that, when I hovered my mouse pointer over items in the Taskbar, I didn’t get the usual miniature preview windows. Instead I got a set of small dark blue windows with the names of the documents that were open by the indicated application. I’d never seen anything like that before. Then… [Read More]
The monitor brightness dilemma solved
In my last post, I was bemoaning the choice between setting your monitor to a high brightness level so that it’s comfortable for most things and setting it to a lower level to get more accurate soft proofing. It turns out that with the NEC PA series monitors you can have your cake and eat… [Read More]
30 bit color
In the early nineties, while I was attending SPIE, SIGGRAPH, and Society for Information Display conferences, I heard a psychologist give a presentation on display bit depth. He claimed that, under the right conditions, humans could distinguish about 400 shades of gray, and that therefore 8 bits of grayscale resolution, which only allows 255 or… [Read More]
Epson 4900 OOBE
As I reported earlier, I had decided to wait on upgrading my 3880 to a 4900, but someone wanted to buy the 3880, and that was enough to push me over the edge. The 4900 arrived on a pallet, with the box standing about two feet high above the top of the base. UPS said… [Read More]
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