Breaker of binaries. Sweary but friendly. See also @TheMatrixDotGIF and @boredzo-kitchen-diary.
Forgot to turn off the B&W setting from another print job and got this accidental B&W print. Not half bad, actually.
This is on plain cardstock, not photo paper, in order to be the front cover image on my binder of 2023 negatives. Hence the reprint, in order to accurately reflect that this photo was shot in color.
Always annoyed by the weird streaking effect put out by almost every single consumer printer I've ever seen. I assume it's just an inevitable thing for any printer that's under the four figure range?
Yeah, that's also my assumption.
StyleWriters (at least the Canon-made models) used to have a “print head alignment” feature, which I think was meant to help with this, but I remember it being tricky to get right and I haven't seen it in any printer driver since.
I've also seen print head alignment options but it's more about making sure all the colors are aligned so you don't get chroma shifting.
I'm not positive but it seems like the patterned streaks are from the printheads ratcheting back to the home position after dragging across the page. I wish one could put printers into a "run slowly as possible to prioritize quality" mode, I feel like that would fix it haha
Hmmm. Mine does have a “quality” setting from “draft” to “high”, and I think it does affect print speed. I always assumed speed was just a consequence of whatever mysterious changes it made, but maybe speed is one of those changes and not a side effect.
In my experience draft, standard, and high also effect dpi. 300, 600, and 1200 respectively.
