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In the Weeds with DTP

Digging deep into the direct-to-plate technique yields some surprising and unintuitive findings

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Color Muse 2: new version review

Color Muse 2 is an affordable handheld colorimeter that can be used for linearizing digital negatives and positives

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Group order for UV-LED enclosures

This post describes a group order for an aluminum shell UV-LED enclosure

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Color Muse: an inexpensive colorimeter to use for digital negatives

Color Muse is an affordable handheld colorimeter that can be used for linearizing digital negatives and positives

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Step-test measurement options

There are a number of approaches that can be used to measure step charts that are used during the digital negative and positive creation process. This post is an overview of those choices.

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Mac Studio and SoftRAID 6 compatibility

M1 based Macs can have issues with SoftRAID managed disk volumes. A workflow to fix the issue

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Exposure Calculator

Small web form that calculates the correct exposure from a minimum-time for maximum-black test with a Stouffer wedge

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Site redesign: dealing with footnotes

Fourth in the series - making inline footnotes do what I want

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Finding lost Quicken datafile on a Mac

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Site Redesign with Jekyll part 3 - fixing the images

Short description of pure javascript routine to add figure and figure caption tags to Jekyll post images

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Site redesign w/Jekyll part 2 - SASS and fonts

Second in a series of posts on the redesign of my site: picking fonts and inserting SASS styling

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Site redesign w/Jekyll part 1

First of a series of posts on the redesign of the words part of my website with the Jekyll static site generator

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COVID-19 Time-series analysis with Pandas and Python

Using Pandas and Python to estimate infection fatality rate prior to vaccine rollouts

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Release of Digital Negatives with QuadToneRIP

Routledge / Focal Press have released Digital Negatives with QuadToneRIP, a book to which I contributed a chapter

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DTP Quick Start

Brief introduction to using direct-to-plate printing for making photopolymer intaglio plates using the Epson P800 inkjet printer.

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QuickCurve calibration for polymer intaglio

Brief introduction to using QuadtoneProfiler for making photopolymer intaglio plates using Epson printers.

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Release of Polymer Photogravure book

Routledge / Focal Press have released Polymer Photogravure,a new book by Clay Harmon

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Exercising your printer with Automator and crontab

workflow using Mac OSX Automator and crontab to periodically print an image in order to prevent heads from drying up

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Jekyll and collections

generating extensionless urls in Jekyll

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Transmit iOS and EC2

Getting Transmit iOS set up for accessing EC2 instance

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Mac OSX 10.9 Migration Pain

Upgrading mac osx can break some programs. Permissions are the issue.

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Enabling gzip compression on EC2

Brief description of easy configuration for gzip compression on EC2 server

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Adding SSL to an EC2 instance

Brief description of getting inexpensive SSL set up on EC2 webserver for secure https: traffic

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Amazon EC2 server and Statamic

Creating a custom Amazon EC2 instance to run Statamic

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Mac OSX Lion Textedit and Preview Crashes

Fixing permissions issues to prevent app crashing in Mac OSX Lion

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Kitchen sink Markdown styling

More or less complete markdown boilerplate to test CSS coverage

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RAID is not a backup, RAID is not a backup

Why a RAID system is not a backup

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Hiking in the Wind Rivers

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