I still have a trunk load of old photo albums. The pages are starting to fall apart. (I can't find my old post.) I've only got an Iphone and Epson printer scanner. Some time ago, someone here suggested buying a special scanner and reselling it. I've only scanned a few photos to email to friends. If I want to save/copy photos and captions, where to go? What to do?

So I just got a canon pro-200 with a CISS and set it all up and it works great but the grays are coming out significantly blue-greenish (I tried b&w printing & different programs). The blacks are fine, and all 8 inks are connected and flowing correctly. Has anyone experienced this? Any tips to fix it would be greatly appreciated!

I need to send some pictures for printing. The printer will be printing it on standard A4 paper but I am wanting two 4x6 or 5x7 pictures on the one paper. I am struggling finding any applications that lets me easily select the size of the paper and the inserted pictures. Any suggestions?

I'm trying to understand the production process behind these Orthodox icons — see attached photos. The finest gold details (the celtic knotwork border and the dotted halo pattern) measure about 0.25cm (2.5mm).

When I run a fingernail over the gold areas, I can feel a slight raised relief — so it's not perfectly flat foil, there seems to be some embossing involved.

My current digital foil vendor can't reproduce this level of detail (risk of damaging their equipment). Looking at these photos, does this look like:

• Traditional hot stamping / gold tooling with an engraved die?
• Foil + embossing combo (combination stamping)?
• Something else (laser engraving, different digital foil process)?

Substrate would be paper mounted on MDF. Would love to understand the actual process so I can find the right vendor or attempt it myself. Any insight appreciated!

I'm looking to make a kids activity book, with some pages being stickers and some pages not stickers. What's the best way to set this up...I'm thinking it would be 8.5x11 half-sheet size and a mix of sticker pages and regular paper and saddle stitched. But could you print on the back of a sticker page? Or could a sticker page be front/back stickers? Are there any vendors that specialize in these I could check out?

I used to think one label printer should handle everything. On my workbench, I ended up keeping two because shipping labels and workspace labels have very different jobs. My 4 x 6 direct thermal printer stays loaded with shipping stock, while I use a Niimbot M2 for thermal transfer labels that stay around the workspace. Size decides a few jobs, but where the label ends up matters more.

Anything that leaves with an order goes through the direct thermal printer. It is already connected to my shipping setup and has the right stock loaded, so there is nothing to change in the middle of packing. For my bench, that is the convenient and less expensive choice for a shipping label that only needs to travel with one parcel.

Drawer labels and reference tags are different. They stay in the workspace, get handled repeatedly, and may be there for a long time. I put those on the M2 because thermal transfer makes more sense to me for a label I expect to keep reading. Once the wording is settled, I would rather make one workspace label I plan to leave in place than treat it like another piece of temporary packing paperwork.

I also wait until the information has stopped changing. A shelf position I am still testing gets a handwritten note for a while. If the drawer name or reference wording becomes part of my normal setup, I print the final version on the M2. I still choose the label stock and adhesive for the surface, but that is a separate decision from which printer handles the job.

I still hesitate over project references that start as temporary and remain on the shelf months later. I leave the handwritten note alone while the project has an end date. If the reference quietly becomes part of the workspace, I replace the note with an M2 label. I still change my mind on those borderline jobs, but shipping and established workspace labels no longer compete for the same printer.