[#TRADESHOW] #TCT #Asia 2025, the premier #event for #additive #manufacturing (#AM) and #3D #printing, will take place from March 17–19, 2025, at the National #Exhibition and #Convention #Center (#NECC), #Shanghai, #China. As part of the #global TCT #network, this leading #platform #connects professionals with groundbreaking #technologies and actionable #insights to transform #design, #engineering, and #manufacturing processes. https://cnbusinessforum.com/event/tct-asia-2025/

Do you regularly print documents from DEVONthink, maybe even multiple documents at once? Then we have a nice little trick for you. #devonthink #printing #macos https://buff.ly/vj3ypT5

[#TRADESHOW] The 9th #International #Digital #Printing #Industry #Application #Exhibition (#TSCI2025) will take place from April 21–23, 2025, at the #Hangzhou Grand Exhibition #Center, #China. As #Asia’s premier #platform for #textile digital printing and #smart #manufacturing, TSCI2025 unites 700+ #exhibitors and 50,000+ professionals under the theme “Establish a Textile Closed #Ecosystem, Enter into a New #World of #Intelligent Textile.” https://cnbusinessforum.com/event/9th-international-digital-printing-industry-application-exhibition-tsci2025/

[#TRADESHOW] #TCT #Asia 2025, the premier #event for #additive #manufacturing (#AM) and #3D #printing, will take place from March 17–19, 2025, at the National #Exhibition and #Convention #Center (#NECC), #Shanghai, #China. As part of the #global TCT #network, this leading #platform #connects professionals with groundbreaking #technologies and actionable #insights to transform #design, #engineering, and #manufacturing processes. https://cnbusinessforum.com/event/tct-asia-2025/

[#TRADESHOW] #SinoFoldingCarton 2025, #Asia’s premier #exhibition for #folding #carton #manufacturing and post-press #packaging solutions, from April 8 to 10, 2025, at the #Shanghai New #International #Expo #Center (#SNIEC). Bringing together more than 1,500 #exhibitors and 100,000 visitors, this #global #event #showcases the latest #printing, #automation, and #sustainable packaging #technologies innovations. https://cnbusinessforum.com/event/sinofoldingcarton-2025/

[#TRADESHOW] The 9th #International #Digital #Printing #Industry #Application #Exhibition (#TSCI2025) will take place from April 21–23, 2025, at the #Hangzhou Grand Exhibition #Center, #China. As #Asia’s premier #platform for #textile digital printing and #smart #manufacturing, TSCI2025 unites 700+ #exhibitors and 50,000+ professionals. https://cnbusinessforum.com/event/9th-international-digital-printing-industry-application-exhibition-tsci2025/

TIL that HP 304 and HP 305 ink cartridges are 100% identical in all respects (electrical connections, mechanical dimensions, ink content etc. etc.) - except the model number.

And of course, that means that some printers only accept the 304 type, and some only the 305 type. Guess who bought the wrong kind?

Fuck HP. I am very tempted to trace out the I2C connection between printer and cartridge, and patch in an uC to overwrite the model number.

playing around with re-scaling my maps from the public drops

rescaling is just saying "j0, 300 DPI file, you have the same number of pixels but it's 200 DPI now" so 200 DPI is like 50% bigger and 150 DPI is 100% bigger when printed and...

...on a modern printer, 200 DPI is... fine? Like, actually fine? Not as good as actually rerendering but fine. 150's not too bad either.

100 DPI breaks it, but oddly, going all the way down to 72 DPI kind of brings it back around again, because yeah, the words are fuzzy but they're so big it doesn't matter.

So if you just wanted Bigger Map you could easily cut it to 200 DPI and print on a good printer and it would be _fine_. 150 DPI would be okay. Not amazing, but okay.

I’ve been in the #printing business my entire life. Thankfully I never worked for HP (I have worked for two of their biggest competitors, and neither did shit like this)

@pluralistic points out that HP charges 10k/gal or so for ink. I’m in a position where I know the actual cost of that ink - and holy f is this just basically larceny. Profit margin WELL over 90%.

https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/22/ink-spattered-pitchforks/

Rochester Institute of Technology students are using a virtual reality app to simulate printing on a 19th-century cast iron hand-press that once belonged to British designer William Morris.

The 19th-century Printing Press Experience VR is free on digital distribution platform Steam.

#steampunk #printing

https://www.rit.edu/news/rit-app-steam-brings-19th-century-printing-life

[#TRADESHOW] #APPPEXPO2025 is set to take place from March 4 to 7, 2025, at the National #Exhibition and #Convention #Center (#NECC), #Shanghai, #China. Renowned as #Asia’s largest and most influential exhibition for #advertising, #printing, and #signage, #APPPEXPO gathers 180,000 #visitors, 1,700 #exhibitors, and spans an impressive 170,000 square meters of #expo space. https://cnbusinessforum.com/event/apppexpo-2025/

[#TRADESHOW] #TCT #Asia 2025, the premier #event for #additive #manufacturing (#AM) and #3D #printing, will take place from March 17–19, 2025, at the National #Exhibition and #Convention #Center (#NECC), #Shanghai, #China. As part of the #global TCT #network, this leading #platform #connects professionals with groundbreaking #technologies and actionable #insights to transform #design, #engineering, and #manufacturing processes. https://cnbusinessforum.com/event/tct-asia-2025/

[#TRADESHOW] #SinoFoldingCarton 2025, #Asia’s premier #exhibition for #folding #carton #manufacturing and post-press #packaging solutions, from April 8 to 10, 2025, at the #Shanghai New #International #Expo #Center (#SNIEC). Bringing together more than 1,500 #exhibitors and 100,000 visitors, this #global #event #showcases the latest #printing, #automation, and #sustainable packaging #technologies innovations. https://cnbusinessforum.com/event/sinofoldingcarton-2025/

[#TRADESHOW] #TCT #Asia 2025, the premier #event for #additive #manufacturing (#AM) and #3D #printing, will take place from March 17–19, 2025, at the National #Exhibition and #Convention #Center (#NECC), #Shanghai, #China. As part of the #global TCT #network, this leading #platform #connects professionals with groundbreaking #technologies and actionable #insights to transform #design, #engineering, and #manufacturing processes. https://cnbusinessforum.com/event/tct-asia-2025/

[#TRADESHOW] #Shanghai #International #Digital #Textile #Printing #Expo 2025, from March 4–7, 2025, at the National #Exhibition and #Convention #Center (NECC), #China, is a #global #platform for #showcasing cutting-edge textile printing and #advertising #technologies. #Event brings together global #industry leaders to explore the #future of #digital printing, #signage, and #packaging #solutions. https://cnbusinessforum.com/event/shanghai-international-digital-textile-printing-expo-2025/

This week's #inkscape update is out and about PDF and I think I might have found some ways of breaking the #PDF specification.

At least... I can make PDF viewers do different things with the same files and that the spec is very ambiguous.

https://youtu.be/-wBqIu598IE

Johannes Gutenberg, who died OTD in 1468, invented the #printing press https://cromwell-intl.com/open-source/canon-pixma-printer-scanner.html?s=mb #Linux

"Simply Eshaness"
Print of The Month, Feb 2025, taken in Shetland, UK.
https://dariosoleraphotography.it/2025/02/potm-simply-eshaness/