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Tech Tuesdays: The Color Red And Printer Woes

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Those of you who follow us on Facebook know that we have been living without a wide-format printer for months now. Our tech guru, Fadi, found us a used Epson 9880. (We highly recommend Fadi and Pacific Office Equipment for those of you in the Sacramento, California area – Tel. 916. 334.7875). All of our dyes printed just fine . . . with the exception of magenta. We knew when we strained our dyes before putting them in the cartridges (yes, we strain our dyes – you never know what you’ll find!) that something was not quite right with magenta. It just didn’t strain easily like all the other colors. Well, to make a long story short, we contacted our supplier, and they’re going to order a new batch of magenta. That should do the trick . . . we hope. Anyway, this whole disaster got me to remembering a great book I read this year (I guess it was just a harbinger of our current color woes):  “A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire,” by Amy Butler Greenfield (2005). It’s almost ten years old, but it’s still a fine read. Greenfield makes history exciting, and I have a new appreciation for dyeing and painting. As Deb likes to say, “Damn those fugitive reds!”

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I think the book’s cover says it all. You can still find it online at Powell’s Books.

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