Digital BW, The Print

Hi everyone,

I've been away for awhile and it's good to be back. I recently had 
twelve images hanging in a group show. Priced them at $225 for 16x20 
and 20x20 framed and sold 7 of them. Yippee.

I am in transition between permanent dwellings and thus have not yet 
set up a CIS but plan to soon. In the meantime I found a place in 
South Carolina called The Ink Warehouse that sells generic inks for 
Epson printers. They have a two cartridge combo (b/w & color) for the 
1280 for $12.95.

Is this too good to be true? Has anyone tried any of these inks and 
are they as good as the Epson brand? Clogging or fading issues?
I'm wondering if, like generic advils, and cough medicines etc that a 
generic ink could be just as good as the brand name. If so has anyone 
tried the ones from this company or is there another company that you 
would recommend?

Also a quick photoshop question if you will indulge me. Somehow I 
must have pushed a button or something but I'm suddenly getting a 
little icon in upper left corner of my working images. It is an  "01" 
with a little rectangle next to it. It is small and doesn't print but 
it's annoying and does cover a little of the work space that I 
sometimes need to access. What is this thing and how do I get rid of 
it? Thanks for your help.

Thanks also to those of you who encouraged me to keep the Wacom 
tablet when I threatened to return it out of frustration. I stuck 
with it and I absolutely LOVE it! Thanks guys.

Tim (good to be back)

Is there a common reason why Photoshop 7 should all of a sudden take an 
extraordinarily long time to load, and sometimes fail to load at all?  It 
was doing fine this afternoon, but this evening when I tried to open it (to 
do some B&W prints using Lyson Quad Black on my Canon S9000) I've had it 
fail to load several times and on another occasion took about 4 minutes to 
load (felt like a half hour, of course.)

It has always taken longer to load than any other program I use, but I can 
see that it loads up a ton of stuff at the start - I watch the items flash 
by on the startup screen.  But this evening there are several places where 
it seems to get hung up on a plug-in - I remember Bas-Relief sat on the 
screen for what seemed like forever, and there were several others where 
the loading process just seemed to stop for a while.  Eventually it 
finished and my image manipulation seemed to work at normal speed, but 
clearly something is wrong.  I didn't do anything particular to the 
computer that I can remember - I just have Eudora and Internet Explorer 
open most of the time.  I don't leave Photoshop open all the time, just 
open it when I'm ready to do some image work.

Anything obvious to check to get back to "normal?"

Thanks for any ideas.

Cheers,
Kip

Hello Kip,

>Is there a common reason why Photoshop 7 should all of a sudden
>take an extraordinarily long time to load, and sometimes fail to 
>load at all?  

Have you installed any new programs?

Is your virus program up to date?

That's all I can think of.  I'd suggest contacting Adobe.


Regards,
Clayton


Info on black and white digital printing at    
http://www.cjcom.net/digiprnarts.htm

There may be other issues beyond PS.  My laptop, for instance, has some 
charming Novell drivers (read: crap) installed so I can print at the 
office.  When I'm not connected to the network (i.e. the printer isn't 
visible), PS seems to hang during loading and often takes several minutes 
to finish.  No other programs seem to have this problem, but there is 
something about how PS enumerates or checks on the printers that causes 
the Novell driver to actually go out and look for 'em.  Changing default 
printers didn't help.  The magic trick (ugh) is to physically disable the 
network connection when PS tries to load -- it comes up in a flash -- then 
re-enable it.  Of course, I'm quite sure this is all Novell's fault, and 
something about PS's unusual startup behavior merely triggered it.  Note 
that no other apps I have exhibit this problem.  The latest Novell drivers 
seem to have almost entirely eliminated it.  It only took three years for 
them to fix it.  Yay.

-- 
Jon Dubovsky ( entropy@... )