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New comment by foodandart in "Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows"

foodandart — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:23:34 +0000

Nice! I've an ML-1710 that is sitting in a closet that I'd love to get properly working on macOS. I've tried with SPLIX and followed the directions to the letter to install the drivers, but it just doesn't stick, in that I can only manage to get one print queue through the device for each time the computer is turned on. I gave up and repaired a junked Epson and put that into service, but I really prefer the formar printer for making line tenplates.

New comment by foodandart in "Los Puesteros, solitary men who look after ranches and livestock in Patagonia"

foodandart — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 19:11:56 +0000

Looks amazing. Just finagle a small solar array for power, some backup batteries and a satellite uplink for the web and I'd be there in a heartbest.

New comment by foodandart in "How did Atari apply side art to Arcade Cabinets?"

foodandart — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 15:14:26 +0000

It really does depend on the thickness of the photo emulsion and the print ink. I've done silk screen prints where 20 prints were managed with little detail loss. The thing with the silk screens is that as a woven cloth, it's prone to slightly stretching with each pass of the ink, so the emulsion gets thin in spots rather quickly.

I would imagine that on the big industrial printers that are using a metal mesh screen and thicker emulsion, it's maybe closer to 50? Usually in a print shop doing a big run, there'll be four or five screens made for each print layer so when one gets worn, it's replaced in the printing rack. It really is an artform.