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“U.S. prosecutors filed criminal charges against Huawei, China's largest smartphone maker, alleging it stole trade secrets from an American rival and committed bank fraud by violating sanctions against doing business with Iran.”

The alleged trade secrets being a robot arm called tappy. They could have saved themselves the bother and bought one direct from Epson. The real story being this prosecution being used as a pretext to hinder Chinese firms doing business in the US. This prosecution being pushed by the corporate owners of America. Another sign that there is no one in the driving seat in Washington.

but when you need low power it's still impossible to beat 8 bit MCUs.

Impossible, you say? Epson to Launch Production of Ultra-Low Power 4-Bit Microcontrollers. :-)

this is the executive management team of Epson America:

http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/S...

They all look trustworthy.

False. There is a utility to reset the firmware's estimate of how saturated the ink pads are. http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/support/supAdvice.jsp?type=highlights&noteoid=100895 discusses this issue.

I'm not even talking about POST parameters. Domain name: http://www.epson.com/
Why is that even part of the URL? Useless: cgi-bin/
That doesn't look like an online store page to me: Store/
Who cares what language you're using on the server? Another useless part: jsp/
Landing? What the hell is that supposed to tell me? Useless again!: Landing/
The page name is descriptive enough, but there's a useless file extension?: ecotank-super-tank-printers.do

The proper URL should be:
http://www.epson.com/printers/...

The URL says "super-tank" but the text on the page says "supertank". They didn't even get that part right, let alone the rest of the messed up URL.

I'm not even talking about POST parameters. Domain name: http://www.epson.com/
Why is that even part of the URL? Useless: cgi-bin/
That doesn't look like an online store page to me: Store/
Who cares what language you're using on the server? Another useless part: jsp/
Landing? What the hell is that supposed to tell me? Useless again!: Landing/
The page name is descriptive enough, but there's a useless file extension?: ecotank-super-tank-printers.do

The proper URL should be:
http://www.epson.com/printers/...

The URL says "super-tank" but the text on the page says "supertank". They didn't even get that part right, let alone the rest of the messed up URL.

You forgot Epson*, dude! * note to the people in charge of the Epson website: that's one ugly URL. Don't you know about semantic URLs?

epson makes tiny printer toys compared to xerox

Really?

We've got one of the largest Xerox units made (700i) and I certainly don't consider our T7270 to be a little toy.

Used to?

http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/S...

For the home market, they might not use their new UltraChrome HDR inks, but for the semi-pro and pro markets, they do. We have a 4900 here in the lab; amazing is a fair word to describe the output.

i know the level here is low recently... but an old product is news? with an hour long commercial introduction before the no-infomation video?!?!

here is the fucking product page link http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/jsp/Moverio/Home.do (with no information such as file type, etc)

and here is the $500 amazon page selling it with fucking reviews http://www.amazon.com/Epson-V11H423020-Moverio-See-Through-Wearable/dp/B007ORN0LS

I second this - bought myself an Epson WP-5454 with wifi (new models seem to always be available) and its worked perfectly. The software updates are good too - even the android print/control app is good.

Wifi is very good - so it can be "conveniently located", but it does have an ethernet port if you must. Frankly, printing is slow enough that a few seconds extra over wifi to get the job to the printer really doesn't matter. It also does automatic double-sided out of the box which I like a lot as I prefer to print booklet for larger jobs.

Even comes with software to let you send an email to the printer to be printed, which I don't use, but is a nice idea - modern equivalent of a fax machine :)

The ink is about 50% cheaper than toner too, but the print quality isn't as sharp as a laser.

Already people are perpetuating a lot of myths.

- Laser ist cheaper than Inkjet
This is not true. A cheap color laser has very expensive toner needs whereas an expensive inkjet printer can be cheaper than many color lasers. If you cheaply want to print color the Epson B510DN is a goot choice. It is not so great for photos though and as with any Inkjet it wants to be used regularily.
If you want a color laser you have to buy a very expensive model to achieve cheap toner costs. This is only interesting if you have to print enough color pages,

Personally I would buy an Kyocera FS-1370 for cheap black and white laser printing. As mentioned by a post above this, it only needs toner and cheap refills are available without loss of quality. A new toner cartridge wheighs like a pound and it's all toner. But if you buy a cheap color laser from Kyocera the toner costs a lot.

For cheap color printing I would buy the above mentioned Epson.

And I woul buy a dedicated scanner.

If space constrains make you buy an all in one machine for scanning copying and color printing. I would get an Lexmark X748de It's expensive but the toner costs are OK. YOu can even use it as a b/w laser without feeling too bad. Lexmark has a rightfully deserved bad reputation for their small printers because ink was very expensive. Their professional models are great, though and the repair service is good.

I would say it is the Epson WF 3540. First of all, it has two sided ADF scan - which is damn useful for getting rid of all those bills by scanning them and also very rare for a printer at this price point. Secondly, you can connect a CISS ink system for bulk printing and refillable ink tanks. You will be able to buy non-OEM refillable ink cartridges anyway, plus the fact that all the different colors have different cartridges means that you want be overpaying for just printing a lot of black and white. It has Android and iPhone apps for the usual wireless printing. It has gotten good reviews for its build quality, particularly its scanner head hinges.

You have to be very careful with dye-sub work. First off, there's two kinds. One is "inkjet" printing that uses gaseous colorants to create the image, and the other is simply printing onto a transfer medium and then using a heat press to imprint the image.

The first is commonly used for things like name badges (we actually have some printers here that do it) or photos, and yes, dental and medical images, but the process is often limited in available classic substrates (canvas, luster photo paper, etc). That little Kodak kiosk thing that may be at your local Wal-Mart can claim it's this kind of "dye-sub", so they're not all created equally. The second type is useful for printing onto dimensional objects, or objects that cannot be fed through an inkjet, but you lose saturation during the transfer process. A shop using "dye-sublimation" can claim either of these, and not be very good at it in any case.

As for as longevity goes; this is ALWAYS a function of the colorant and substrate you use, aggravated by the conditions you store the output in, and has little to do with the original process of getting the color to the substrate (solvent, UV, and Latex applications excluded; by their very natures these inks attach to the substrate more aggressively).

Generally speaking, dye inks (colored solutions) will fade fastest (magenta first, in most cases, and that sucks because dye inks are typically the most vibrant), pigment inks (solutions with wee little colored flakes in them) will fade more slowly, solvent inks (more aggressive pigment inks) more slowly still, with latex and UV inks typically tied for the slowest, depending on substrate. All substrates must be acid-free, too, or you're hosed, as the substrate itself will start to yellow, fade, and break down as UV accelerates the process. There are also ways to protect any existing or brand new print regardless of the ink used; check out the way the Library of Congress does frames and archives their prints and paper items for a good idea on how it's done: http://www.loc.gov/preservation/care/mat.html / http://www.loc.gov/preservation/care/paper.html respectively. It's a pain in the ass, but following true standards always is.

Basically, take what a manufacturer of a printer, paper, or ink says about longevity with a grain of salt; the requirements for Epson, Kodak et. al. to say "will last 75 years!!" are lax to the point of ridiculous. I'm not blasting them; especially Epson, as I have 4 of their printers and they truly ARE absolutely amazing. It's just that there IS no standard for testing print permanence, so anybody can claim anything: "If you leave your prints in a lightless vacuum in extreme deep space, it'll last for a kajillion years!!!" Well, duh.

For instance, this is Epson defending their testing practices against Kodak's, while admitting that their own are not very realistic (and it's an amusing public gripe, to boot): ftp://ftp.epson.com/webfiles/whitepprsum.pdf. A shamelessly cherry-picked quote:

"Currently there is no ISO print permanence standard for digitally printed photographs, and there is no prediction as to when, or even if an ISO standard will be established."

Examples? Maybe I have just lucked out, but none of the printers I've bought (or even looked at purchasing) in the last 10 or 12 years have lacked PostScript support, and I've bought low-end, consumer-grade printers.

Well, the specs on the HP OfficeJet 4500 only mention HP's PCL, not PostScript (and they do mention it, as well as HP PCL, for the HP DesignJet T2300). The HP DeskJet 1000 specs also don't mention PostScript. Epson doesn't mention PostScript as a language for the Epson Artisan 725 All-in-One Printer - Arctic Edition. Maybe you've just blown off the lowest-end printers.

AML makes Linux-powered portable handheld computers with Wi-Fi and barcode scanning capability, and they'll give you their source disk with your hardware if you ask, so you can modify it as much as you like if their standard suite of applications don't suit you. You would also need to add a printer like the Epson TM-T88 and an RS232 magstripe-reader like the Unitech MS-240. For the actual card clearing, you'd probably either tie this system into your existing POS mainframe (if you have one) or you'd tie it into an Internet-based POS solution like Authorize.net, or if you are feeling ambitious, you can integrate over SSL directly with a clearing network like TSYS (formerly VisaNet / VITAL). Of course, your biggest expenditure is probably going to be paying someone to write the software to tie all this together for you (unless you can pull it all off yourself, in which case hats off to you!)

http://www.amltd.com/product.asp?pid=m7220
http://pos.epson.com/products/prodsPMOP.htm
http://ute.com/products_info.php?pid=211

P.S.
I have worked on the AML portable computers before. I have not specifically worked with the Epson printer or the Unitech magstripe reader, but both should work in conjunction with the AML unit's WiFi and serial capabilities respectively. You would probably need to custom-make a cable for the magstripe reader since the AML unit uses a non-standard RS232 connector (RJ45 if I recall correctly).

Why not just use one big-ass flatscreen TV?

That's a fair question.

HDMI 1.4 delivers a single cable solution for 4Kx2K video, Ethernet over HDMI, 3D over HDMI, etc.

The tech for affordable 4Kx2K projection isn't that far off. Epson Develops World's First 4K Compatible HTPS TFT Liquid Crystal Panel for 3LCD Projectors

You can still buy dot matrix printers: Epson LX-300+II Dot Matrix Printer

...a sub-par 2400 baud modem. (and that's pushing it)

Seriously, I have a Linksys router that would process circles around it; even before overclocking! I don't even think I could underclock my router to the speed of an i8088. (4.77Mhz) By Moore's Law, what you have there is an antique and little more... it's only good as a vehicle for driving down memory lane.

Excerpt from original user manual:

A number of option cards are available to expand the memory up to 640K, and a special Epson memory expansion card is available from your Epson dealer to expand memory to 512K without using an option slot.

Imagine all that you could do with a whole 640K!</sarcasm>

If you're running a Linux server from your home, then this would make a good serial terminal, but only if you can find the emulator software to do it. You might be able to retrofit a controller for a 3.5" floppy, but USB is going to be a stretch. Do they even make USB controllers for ISA bus? The manual didn't specify the type of “option card” it uses, which makes me think it's the original 8-bit ISA standard. ISA was practically dead in 1997, then USB only rose to dominance after 1998... I'm not even sure they intersect!

Abandon all hope, ye who enter a “system dick” [sic] to continue. <nods to ta bu shi da yu>

Recycle it or donate to a museum. Otherwise, best of luck!

Gotta hand it to Epson for their corporate memory and support abilities... Someone else mentioned contacting them to try and get your hands on some disks but now I'm thinking that might actually work...

Indeed. As I pulled up the list of computers (under "Home Entertainment|Other Products|Desktop Computers"), I thought to myself "No way will the QX-10 be listed." It was! Then, as I clicked on the PDF manual I thought "Surely it'll be a completely-scanned, no-text version." On the contrary, it's a real PDF document with searchable text, internal links, and even the original line drawings. Astounding! Kudos to Epson America.

I know I will be modded troll or something but I was just amazed that you can find an actual manual by googling! It's probably useless but anyway, kudos to EPSON.

I know I will be modded troll or something but I was just amazed that you can find an actual manual by googling! It's probably useless but anyway, kudos to EPSON.

http://files.support.epson.com/pdf/e1____/e1____ps.pdf

There's a reference to a few HDD controller mentioned, jumper positions, etc.

I'd bet you could hack a modern fdd into it fairly easily...

I know that may be a joke to you but call up Epson or submit a ticket explaining to them your situation. Who knows? Maybe they have a storeroom with old floppies lying around so you can get the original software back? I imagine those disks wore out all the time. Just ask them if they have any of the original software for that model lying around. That would be amazing support if they did.

They do host the manual that indicates you have a parallel port and a RS-232C serial port to play with and also something that looks like expansion slots designed for peripherals. Good luck and have fun!

I know that may be a joke to you but call up Epson or submit a ticket explaining to them your situation. Who knows? Maybe they have a storeroom with old floppies lying around so you can get the original software back? I imagine those disks wore out all the time. Just ask them if they have any of the original software for that model lying around. That would be amazing support if they did.

They do host the manual that indicates you have a parallel port and a RS-232C serial port to play with and also something that looks like expansion slots designed for peripherals. Good luck and have fun!

I rather have more driver hardware support from vendors in Linux first. Apps will follow soon after.

I rather have more driver hardware support from vendors in Linux first. Apps will follow soon after.

Do you write to them and tell them that? Here are some addresses, write to one or two:

Creative (Webcams) http://asia.creative.com/contactus/presales/

Logitech (Webcams) http://logitech-en-amr.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/logitech_en_amr.cfg/php/enduser/ask.php

Lexmark (Printers) http://www.lexmark.com/lexmark/sequentialem/home/0,6959,204816596_689444666_0_en,00.html

Nokia (PIM sync software with OpenSync) http://www.nokia.com/A4126575

Epson (Printers) http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/AboutContactUs.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=yes

Gigabyte (New motherboards should ship with Linux drivers) http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Company/ContactUs.aspx?CompanyWebPageID=6

Linksys (Networking equipment) http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellite?c=L_Content_C1&childpagename=US%2FLayout&cid=1114037291276&pagename=Linksys%2FCommon%2FVisitorWrapper

SIS http://www.sis.com/support/support_tech.htm

ASUS http://usa.asus.com/aboutasus.aspx?show=3

Write to the hardware vendors and let them know that we want to buy and use their products on Linux. Here are the addresses of some other hardware vendors. Copy the list and write to one every week:

Creative (Webcams) http://asia.creative.com/contactus/presales/

Logitech (Webcams) http://logitech-en-amr.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/logitech_en_amr.cfg/php/enduser/ask.php

Nokia (PIM sync software with OpenSync) http://www.nokia.com/A4126575

Epson (Printers) http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/AboutContactUs.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=yes

Gigabyte (New motherboards should ship with Linux drivers) http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Company/ContactUs.aspx?CompanyWebPageID=6

Linksys (Networking equipment) http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellite?c=L_Content_C1&childpagename=US%2FLayout&cid=1114037291276&pagename=Linksys%2FCommon%2FVisitorWrapper

OK, there are apps that work in Wine, for others there's VMware... There are a few critical apps that keep me partly in the Windows realm (I'm a Linux device driver developer in other circumstances). One of them is photo-quality printers such as the Epson R1800 which only has Win/Mac drivers. Sure, CUPS can print on it. Text. No profiled pictures. Is there a solution to this ? Can a printer driver work in Wine ? Can it work in some virtualized windows config ? Last time I checked, a virtual Windows under Linux couldn't access USB /firewire devices.

Sure enough.
http://itc.epson.com/

Why not just get a new printer? They are still made, you know.

The question is: is this paper going to be like a Polaroid? Sure it's convenient, but I'll take a bit of a hassle to make sure my materials are still there when I or my estate's executor or my children need to get at them; that my relics will remain.

Then get an Epson photo printer. The prints are scratch/moisture resistant, and fade resistant for 200 years, or so they say. (I guess we'll find out in 200 years)

It is not a little to my wife's bemusement that my camera gear (which is actually fairly modest) is worth more than her car. And it pains my wallet, regularly. Multiple SanDisk Extreme cards, multiple L lenses... gah. Reminds me, must make sure it's all on insurance.

What's a good inkjet printer for printing on printable CD/DVD media?

Epson R200/220/300/340 series. I have the R300, and can't say anything but good about it. Prints look like it came from the factory.
Epson has a refurb R340 at their outlet center for $70.

BASF Research
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Microsoft Research
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Since I have to mod points with which to reward you, I wanted to thank you. This is exactly what I'm looking for.

The scanner is $130 with a negative scanner. (The next model down was $100, so only a $30 difference now.)

The feeder looks like it will scan anything for which I have no negatives.

Perfect! Thanks

Now I just need to come across the money with which to pay for them.

Since I have to mod points with which to reward you, I wanted to thank you. This is exactly what I'm looking for.

The scanner is $130 with a negative scanner. (The next model down was $100, so only a $30 difference now.)

The feeder looks like it will scan anything for which I have no negatives.

Perfect! Thanks

Now I just need to come across the money with which to pay for them.

Nice to know drivers available for HP and Epson!

I'm interested on any one of the following printers:
HP Photosmart 8700
Epson Stylus Photo R1800
Epson Stylus Photo R800

When I goto HP, this is what I see:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareCategor y?product=426109&lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&submit.y=7&sub mit.x=5&lang=en&cc=us

When I goto Epson, this is what I see:
http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/support/supDeta il.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=yes&oid=14121&prodoid=535409 19&infoType=Downloads&platform=All

Do you see anything different than I see?

Could you post hear the location of the drivers for the above printers?

http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/consumer/consDe tail.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=yes&oid=53540925

There may be other less-expensive models w/ a similar adapter, and you may also be able to find one used.

What if you want to print on media that the local printer doesn't support, such as fine art papers (Epson Velvet Fine Art, Entrada Fine Art Bright, or Canvas?

Also, the color balance of the local mass printers are hit or miss. In order to get decent color out of some of these places, prepare to spend some effort in manipulating your photos to get good quality. If you want good quality, of course... OTOH, at home you can set up your own workflow and get good color on the first print every time.

Otherwise, if I just want a bunch of 4x6s of the last birthday party to some people, and I'm heading there anyway, then Costco is just the thing.

Every technology / service has it's place and doesn't fill all needs

What if you want to print on media that the local printer doesn't support, such as fine art papers (Epson Velvet Fine Art, Entrada Fine Art Bright, or Canvas?

Also, the color balance of the local mass printers are hit or miss. In order to get decent color out of some of these places, prepare to spend some effort in manipulating your photos to get good quality. If you want good quality, of course... OTOH, at home you can set up your own workflow and get good color on the first print every time.

Otherwise, if I just want a bunch of 4x6s of the last birthday party to some people, and I'm heading there anyway, then Costco is just the thing.

Every technology / service has it's place and doesn't fill all needs

Just remember: "TWAIN" not "WIA" not "All-in-one"

The cartridges will be converted to energy through an environmentally sound incineration process at a licensed waste-to-energy recycling facility.

> > My GF is a graphics designer who specializes in print media.

> Your GF probably shouldn't be trying to get by with a cheapo desktop printer, then.

Who said the user in question was looking for a cheapo desktop printer? Inkjets aren't all cheap crap. As is the case with others who have posted here, I use an Epson 2200 for my small business (artwork reproductions) daily, and combined with some $500 software and display calibration, I can produce amazingly accurate prints that will last a lifetime on a variety of media.

Sure, this is different from how most people use their inkjets, but for my uses the technology is as revolutionary as digital cameras.

And DON'T buy Lexmark. ever

I don't have a lot of injet experience from Lexmark (brother-in-law has one that didn't work well but don't know of any other friends/family with inkjets from Lexmark), but the Lexmark laser printers seem to need pretty regular repair visits in my building. The HP laser printers seem to run pretty well and for home, I'm fairly happy with my Epson Stylus for the occasional prints. The Epson Stylus C86 I have uses the four cartridges (CMYK) and for the few prints, the convenience/cost is not too bad.

Main point though was agreeing with you on the Lexmark statement.

For better quality, things were usually printed on our Epson Stylus 9600 (similar model) which was an ink jet (7 colour, I think, one of which was called "light black" - maybe Epson hasn't heard of "grey"?), a printer which was only a fraction of the price of the colour lasers ($5000). I think it had the photographic rather than UltraChrome inks you mentioned, but they seem to have done away with the distinction now.

Mind you, it was much, much slower as well, so the colour lasers definitely are good for speed. Though not particulary fast either. Offset press still seems a much faster option for anything that isn't variable (and cheaper, assuming you're doing enough of the same thing). Completely losing the plot though, aren't I? Most people printing a few photos aren't going to need super speed.

So I was a tech at a pre-press/print shop...

And that's before you find out that the print is less durable.

Or more durable, if you're using Epson ink....

This is why I don't use inkjets.

Not for anything but photo printing. For 2-dimensional CG and presentation graphics, the best thing is a color laser. Aside from these two cases, a standard 9-pin dot matrix is all you need. Dot-matrix quality has really improved. They're much quieter then they used to be, and the text is actually quite nice and sharp with my Epson LX-300+

If you really want to splurge there's also the FX-890.

If it's still not crisp enough for you, you can pick up an old-model lazer printer at a used kit place like RE-PC here in Seattle for as little as 20 bucks, with a starter toner cartridge included.

If you're ABSOLUTELY bent on going the Inkjet route, my reccomendation would be Dell inkjets. They're designed off of Apple's old StyleWriter printer technology, which was used in the earlier members of Canon's BubbleJet line. Dell acquired the technology from Canon and set about improving it and the result is a brand new line of snazzy high-quality inkjets. They're quite durable, and the ink cartridges are easy to find and available from multiple manufacturers including Nu-Kote. They're a little noisy for 'jets though.

I'm not officially endorsing these products or anything, just saying that I've tried them and in my experience they do a good job.

Says the New Scientist article linked to above. So I'd guesstimate that it would be around 50 cents per disk...

Where one can buy a printer like the Epson Stylus R200 and use ink jet printable media. The printer fetches $100 and the printable media 25 cents to 77 cents each plus ink. You can print on regular media but the drytime is 1-7 days and the quality is piss poor. I have only printed 100 DVDs with it so far on one black cartrage. The black cartrage runs about $20 for the Epson or less than half for a generic.

There is also the Signature Z1 CD/DVD Printer which is a 200dpi thermal ribbon printer that fetches $140 or so. The ribbon fetchs $20 or so which from what i've heard prints on about 200 cds. So about 10cents a piece. This can be cheaper if you buy brand name media like Verbatim.

LightScribe looks nice, wouldn't run like liquid ink can, and would take up less desktop space but it isn't here yet. At least with the two above options there is a snowball's chance in hell the media will still be around in 5 years.

From the article:
More recently, special printers that print directly onto a disc's label side have come onto the market, but the process isn't very user-friendly.

My Epson Stylus R300 can print directly onto printable CDs. The process isn't that hard. You have to feed a special tray into the front, but that's about it. You have to use Epson's special software, but you also have to use special software for these doodads. Yeah, you have to buy special media, but I'm guessing the price is about the same as for the LightScribe discs.

And the Epson does pretty darn good color and has software for the Mac. (At the time of this writing, Mac support for LightScribe was only available as an SDK for integration into other applications.)

-mo

I decided to learn about inkjet dyes and (pigment) inks immediately after reading sashuka's post. I felt it necessary after seeing him so vehemently deny the existence of pigment based ink. After fifteen minutes of light research, the following document revealed the existence of a milled pigment inkjet ink. EPSON's UltraChrome Ink Factsheet provides information in detail. Below are listed some of the clues to this ink's existence... clues which EPSON cleverly hid on their own website!

It appears that EPSON has had a line of inks for (at least) a year now that are milled pigment inks in an acrylic suspension. Their method of delivery is inkjet technology.

According to the literature, EPSON UltraChrome(tm) Inks are: "super penetrating pigment inks" that "are engineered to deliver incredible print quality and color brilliance rivaling that of dye based inks" and that have "a lightfastness rating of up to 82 years under glass on certain Epson media".

They further go on to describe these inks as consisting of: "Evenly milled microencapsulated pigments."

Since EPSON compares their ink to dye-based ink, and since dyes use pigments dissolved in solution, not "milled pigments in suspension", we can safely conclude that EPSON makes a non-dye based ink. This would seem to invalidate your proclamation that states, "there are no inkjet "inks," they are all dyes."

Now, I don't want to seem harsh here, but I feel you need a little bit of a scolding. You see, I'm tired of amature hobbyists who also happen to be intelligent jumping on Slashdot and proclaiming their knowledge of the state of the universe without actually knowing what they are talking about. There is something which tempers the sharp cutting edge of intelligence and guides its proper use. It's called wisdom.

One of the primary assumptions which wise people everywhere seem to know intrinsically is that no one knows everything about anything. So be careful when using words or phrases like never, impossible, no such thing, et cetera. I would also add that it compounds the problem when you make such proclamations in bold text. You might give off the impression that you are on a rant.