Question about printing before I buy an iMac

I have a Dell 3010N network color laser printer in my PC network. There are no Mac drivers for this laser printer. I was thinking about switching over from PC to Apple. However, I need to know if there is a way for me to print to the Dell laser printer from the new iMac's? If that's not possible, could I connect the laser printer directly to one of the PC's and print via peer-to-peer as in the PC world?

Since Dell does not offer Mac drivers, you won't be able to print even if you did hook it to a PC and share it from there.
However Dell usually just re-brands printers from other makers (HP, LexMark, etc...), so if you can find out which mechanism is actually in the printer, you could probably download Mac drivers (if available) from them. Otherwise, you're probably out of luck.

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Question about printing by page count

Hi
I'm new to this and I have a question about printing our invoices by page count.
We generate our invoice using Crystal 2008 we have invoices that can range from a single page to as many as 6 pages. I would like Crystal to preview/print the reports in order of how many pages are in the report. Example: print all single page invoices first then all invoices that are 2 pages and so on. Is this possible?
Thank you in advance

Hi Ido,
Thanks for your input. This is more or less what Carl was suggesting yesterday and I gave it a lot of thinking. The problem here is that I cannot go with "good enough resolution" - I need perfect resolution.
The reason for this apparently silly requirement (why would one sort a bunch of invoices by number of pages instead of Customer Number, as long as they end up in an envelope anyway?) is the proposed purchase of a folding/stuffing machine which could do very fast what now takes one person 4 days to achieve.
One type of machine comes with three settings - fold/stuff 1, 2 or 3-page statements. You need to have three stacks with all the statements that have 1, 2 and 3 pages. The ones with more pages will have to be folded manually, but there are only about two dozen clients that give us that much business. You feed the machine one stack at a time and set it to process the respective number of pages. Any statement that falls accidentally in the other stack will either cause the whole rest of the stack to be mixed up, which is very bad, or cause one customer to receive his invoice and someone else's, which is just embarrassing. I cannot afford any of these scenarios.
Given that the statement contains variable-length (and depth) messages that vary by month and by profit center, and it could also contain one or more groups of details, each with its own header, it is very risky to try to come up with magic numbers attempting to estimate the number of pages based on the number of detail lines. Someone will still have to eyeball very carefully the initial stack of statements in the areas where the number of pages increases by one and make sure that ordering by number of detail lines did not mix, for example, one report with two pages among two reports with one page. Of course, this increased scrutiny will be necessary only around the areas where the page number transitions from 1->2, 2->3 and 3->4, which is much better than trying to order by number of pages all 1500 statements, but still depends on one's manual intervention and focus and, as a result, makes me pretty uncomfortable.
I have taken a look at the "Group Sort Expert". If you select the "All" option (all groups) and you had some kind of summary value then you could sort the report by that value. The idea was to create a hidden Average field over the TotalPageCount runtime variable (which will always equal the TotalPageCount for that customer, since it's the same for all the pages in that group) and use that summary field in the "Group Sort Expert", which would have solved the problem elegantly. Unfortunately, there is no way to create a summary field over a runtime variable. I even created a formula that just returns the TotalPageCount, but that formula did not show up in the list of fields available for summarization (while other formulas did).
It looks like the reporting engine does not allow this type of "late-sorting". I wonder if it is possible at all, because in effect this would require the engine to execute an additional pass: first it should somehow generate the whole report grouped by Customer Number so it knows how many pages are in each group, then it should sort by the number of pages and only after that it could render the report. I'm not sure the engine can do this additional pass.
I would be very curious to hear about the other (more complex) ideas you mentioned. For example, I have seen (in Crystal 2008) a checkbox allowing "sorting by a formula". I don't know how to write a formula used in sorting, but the basic question in the paragraph above still stands: does the engine even support such a feature?
Thanks again.

I have a Canon Pixma i4700 printer and since buying my iMac I'm finding it difficult to print photographs without a severe warm (red) tone.

I have a Canon Pixma i4700 printer and since buying my iMac I'm finding it difficult to print photographs without a severe warm (red) tone.
What am I doing wrong?

I can't give you detailed instructions, but there should be a way to print a built-in test page. If the color is off on that, the printer has an internal problem such as a clogged head.

Have a few questions about iPad before I get one

I have a few questions about getting an ipad before I committ to get one.
I have about 24 gb of itunes purchases in my itunes library, I am thinking of getting the 64 gb ipad. However, after you purchase the 64 gb, it will not truly be 64 gb,
1) how much actual storage space would I have on a 64 gb ipad accounting for the os? On my macbook now I have a 164 gb hard drive but only access to about 148 gb for example.
2) Would I be able to store the 24 gb of itunes purchases in icloud? How would I do that? Would I keep needing to go into the Purchase History tab in the ITunes store and download the song when I want to listen to it? My concern with this is that the item will no longer be "available in the Itunes store" and I will lose access to my music I purchased?
I would like to ditch the laptop and just have the ipad as my computer but want to know about these questions I have first.
3) Can ipad and iphone now be charged without needing a laptop? Per last year's June 2011 conference when Lion and ICloud were announced, it was stated in Fall 2011 with iOS5 that people could get ipads and iphones and charge them without needing a laptop for syncing?

1. About 57 on mine
2. Subscribe to iTunes Match at a cost of about $25 per year - 25000 song limit I think
http://www.apple.com/icloud/features/
3. The iPad comes with a power adapter that plugs into a wall socket and that is the recommended way to charge it anyway. - not by using a computer
http://www.apple.com/batteries/ipad.html
You do not absolutely need a computer in order to use an iPad but you have to do more research to figure out if it will fit your needs that way.

Help Before I Buy an iMac

I have an HP Desktop and I'm ready to convert to the iMac. I have a question:
I would like to purchase the iMac, partition the hard drive and install windows XP on it, move EVERYTHING over from my HP to the partitioned drive to the windows side of my Mac, so that I won't lose programs I've had for years, etc.
Is that possible ???

Your data files such as you music, photos, MS Office files etc are probably saved in your "My Documents" folder on your PC. My recommendation is to move the contents of that folder onto an external HD, when you get your new iMac and load Windows simply move all those files from the external HD to your iMac. It's just a drag and drop process. When you load Windows on an iMac it runs identically to your HP machine (well it's probably going to be faster than your HP) so it's really no different than buying another HP, Dell, Toshiba, etc Windows box.
Also if you buy your iMac at an Apple store inquire to see if they will provide this service to you.
You might get some useful hints from these links:
http://www.apple.com/support/switch101/
http://www.apple.com/support/mac101/
The application software is products such as Microsoft Office, Adobe Photoshop etc if you have a license and want to move it to your new iMac you will have to do an installation just like you did when you bought the software and ran it on your HP. Obviously you need to have valid licenses and need to understand what each application's license allows you to do. Every software manufacturer is a little different. For example Microsoft's basic license allows the use of the software on one machine only, however if you are moving to a new machine you need to ask Microsoft how to do that.
BTW when you ask us to elaborate it would be helpful if you told us what to elaborate on.

Question about "Print Size"

I am confused and puzzled about "Print Size." First I select the Zoom Tool, then I click "Print Size" in the upper bar. I also have chosen View > Rulers.
What I don't understand is that one inch in the horizontal ruler actually is considerably longer than one inch on the vertical ruler. I think this is distorting the appearance on my photos in the monitor as compared with the actual prints. The monitor version of my portrait, for example, looks fatter than the printed version. Why is this and why isn't a horizontal inch equal to a verical inch for viewing purposes.
Thank you very much for any help on this.
Bob

Thank you very much. I changed my monitor to its native resolution and I think this solved the problem. Bob
J Maloney <[email protected]> wrote:
Change the screen resolution setting in your PS prefs to your display resolution. Then print size will work as expected.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_displays_by_pixel_density
More about the print size feature:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Photoshop/11.0/WSfd1234e1c4b69f30ea53e41001031ab64-7935a.html
>

Question about printing and resolution

Hello
I am trying out a trial version of PE13 and am attempting to come to terms with printing and resolution.
I have also read this informative tutorial here:
How Image Resolution Affects Print Quality - Photoshop Tutorial
This is the image I would like to print:
In the tutorial referred to above, the author states that when printing, 300 resolution is best and not the 79.3 px/inch that I have. When I change that 79.3 to 300, the image of Marilyn becomes tiny, so my question is how can I have an image that would neatly fit onto A4 photo paper maybe with a 1" white border around it (meaning the image size would be 8" x 6") while retaining a 300 resolution?
Am I going about this the right way, aren't I?
Many thanks.
Steve

Steve,
The most important thing about resolution is the dimension in pixels.
Your original is 433 x 653 pixels. Just good enough to display on a normal laptop.
With A4 format at 300 ppi, you'd need:
21 / 2.54 * 300 = 2480 pixels wide
29.7 / 2.54 * 300 = 3507 pixel high.
Any image editor won't be able to add the missing resolution, but the solution is to let the editor guess the missing pixels by interpolation methods.
You won't get more details than those present in the original file, but you'll get a smoother, non 'pixelated' image.
In the Elements editor, you have to check the 'resample' checkbox to be able to keep the outpur size while increasing the ppi to 300.

Question about printing an image/control Using Report Generator

The attached VI is an example of creating a report from a control or image. My problem is that when the control (xy graph) gets too large in the vertical direction it clips the image but, the horizontal is scaled to the width of the report.
First question is why does it scale in the horizontal and not the vertical? See the Test.pdf for what I am talking about.
Second, is it possible to control this behavior (edit/create an alternate for the Append Control Image to report or the Report VI's)?
I have found many work around but ultimately it comes back to; why automatically scale one direction but not the other?
For this application I don't mind that the graph is scaled down in the horizontal I just wish it would do the same thing in the vertical axis (I don't even want it to be a 1 to 1 zoom ratio, just fill the avalible report space).
Thoughts?
Attachments:
Print XY Graph TEST.vi ‏55 KB
Test.pdf ‏217 KB

I agree all of the workarounds have limitations. One workaround, that I'm not sure if you have tried yet is change the numeric constant from 50 to 20 (I attached a picture showing which constant I am talking about). This seems to fix the issue just because the image never becomes larger than the report page itself.
Let me know if that option creates any problems for you as well.
Kevin S
Applications Engineer
National Instruments
Attachments:
Block Diagram.PNG ‏29 KB

Question about printing and sorting files

What I'm trying to do is read in a file of names (about a thousand) sort them using a sort alorithim then print out the sorted file of names, as well a separate chart with the number of compares and swaps . My Sort class has different sorting algorithims, like insertion, bubble etc. Everything I have now works fine. But the way its set up now I have to pick one algorithim at a time, then it sorts then prints the results like this:
Bubble Sort
Compares : 2016
Swaps : 1052.
Now if I want to choose anothert algorithim, I'll have to manualy do that then run Main again then apend the results to the output file. But I would like run Main once opening the file that needs to be sorted then run one algorithim, calc the results, then do that again for another algorithim calc the results, then when I'm finished with all the algorithims, print all the results at once to the output chart. This so the output will look better, and the user won't have repeatedly run the program to see and compare the results.
Is this even possible, and if so, any ideas how?
This is the main console, which put the names in a array list, then sorts
them
public class SortyFile {
     public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException{
           BufferedReader r = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("C:/Documents and Settings/Cougar/" +
               "Desktop/names.txt"));
           PrintWriter Output_Chart
                = new PrintWriter(new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter("C:/Documents and Settings/Cougar/" +
                  "Desktop/Output Chart2.txt" , true)));
           PrintWriter Output_Sorted_File
                = new PrintWriter(new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter("C:/Documents and Settings/Cougar/" +
                       "Desktop/Sorted File2.txt")));
           ArrayList a = new ArrayList();
           String line = null;
           while ((line = r.readLine()) != null)
                a.add(line);
                Sort.bubbleSort(a);
              Output_Chart.println("");
              Output_Chart.println(Sort.algoname);
              Output_Chart.println("");
              Output_Chart.println("Compares :" + "   " + Sort.compares);
              Output_Chart.println("Swaps :" + "      " + Sort.swaps);
              Output_Chart.println("");
              for (int i=0; i<a.size(); i++){
                   Output_Sorted_File.println(a.get(i));
                   System.out.println(a.get(i));
           Output_Chart.close();
           Output_Sorted_File.close();
This is the class with different sorting algorithims, the variable algoname is use for printing the header on the output chart.
public class Sort {
    static int swaps = 0;
    static int compares = 0;
    static String algoname; // name for the algorithim
    public static void swap(List data, int least, int i) {
          Object tmp = data.get(least);
          data.set(least, data.get(i));
          data.set(i, tmp);
     public static void bubbleSort(List data)
        for (int i = 0; i < data.size(); i++)
            for(int j = i+1; j < data.size(); j++)
                Comparable current = (Comparable) data.get(j);
                Comparable previous = (Comparable) data.get(i);
                compares++;
                if (current.compareTo(previous) < 0)
                    data.set(j, previous);
                    data.set(i, current);
                    swaps++;
        algoname = "Bubble Sort";
      public static void selectionSort (List data)
           int i,j, least;
           final int size = data.size();
           for (i = 0; i < size - 1; i++)
              for (j = i+1, least = i; j < size; j++)
                   compares++;
             if (((((Comparable) (data.get(j))).compareTo(data.get(least)))) < 0)
                  least = j;
                  swap(data,least,i);
                  swaps++;
           algoname = "Selection Sort";
      public static void insertionSort (List data)
             Comparable tmp;
          int i, j;
             for(i = 1; i < data.size(); i++)
                  tmp = (Comparable)data.get(i);
                   for(j = i; (j > 0) && (tmp.compareTo(data.get(j - 1)) < 0) ; j--){
                   compares++;
                   data.set(j, data.get(j - 1)) ;
                   data.set(j, tmp) ;
                  swaps++;
             algoname = "Insertion Sort";
}

Maybe Im misunderstanding your question, but couldnt
you just run the bubbleSort() method, then the
insertionSort() method, and so on? You would do this
in your main method.Yeah I tried that but for odd reason I get this for the results
Bubble Sort
Compares : 2016
Swaps : 1052
Selection Sort
Compares : 2016
Swaps : 1052
The results for both algorthims are exactly the same.

Satellite M70-340: Question about warranty if I buy in Russia and move to Australia

I'd like to buy notebook Satellite M70-340 here in Russia. Next month I'm going to move to Australia. What about the warranty in this case?
Will I have to pay if some trouble occurs?
How can I recognise a laptop which is officially sold (= i mean legally delivered and has a worldwide warranty)?
Thanx a lot for your answer!

Hi
I dont know what you mean with officially sold and I hope you will buy notebook in PC store and not on the street. As far as I know every new notebook has one year international warranty but if you will stay longer you can buy warranty extension. It must be buying by authorized service partner in your country.
If you have troubles in Australia go to service partner and they will check if the unit is stolen or official soled. After that it can be repaired. As I said, contact Authorized Toshiba service partner in Russia and ask for warranty extension.
Addresses you can find under http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/su/su_gaspLocator.jsp?pf=true

Questions About Printing in Java

Alright, I've been looking at the Java printing API. I like it, it's nice. I've got a drag-and-drop workspace that the user wants to print, so I just use m_workspace.paint(Graphics) on the print Graphics object to paint the workspace onto the page. Very nice.
Here's the issue. I want to fit as many workspaces on a page as is possible. Now, with a Graphics2D object, I can call a couple of methods to get its height and width. I need to be able to determine the height and width of the Graphics object that the printer hands me. Here are the questions as best as I can describe them:
* Is it possible to find the height and width of a Graphics object? How else can you determine a Graphics object's coordinate range?
* When the Printable interface is given a Graphics object on which to print, does the Graphcis object represent the whole page or just the printable area of the page?
* The PageFormat class provides methods for determining the height and width as well as the printable height and width of a page in 72nds of an inch. How does one determine the intended printing resolution (dpi) of the print job? If this cannot be done, how is it possible to determine the size of the page in pixels?
I'd really appreciate help with this as fast as it can be mustered. This program needs to be completed by Friday morning and I'm clueless as to the Java printing interface.
Thanks for any time you've spent reading this and the time you may spend answering it. :) Best wishes!

After perusing the many books of one of my coworkers, I think I have good reason to believe the following:
* Printing with the Printable interface is always at a resolution of 72dpi (1 pixel per point).
* The Graphics object passed to print(...) represents a pixel space equal to the number of points of each dimension of the imageable area of the page.
Can anyone with experience with Java printing confirm these conclusions?

Question about Print to Video

I am using a Sony HC1 HDV camera. I captured some HDV video (using the camera to downconvert) in DV. I edited the sequence and now I want to output a copy of my finished version onto tape in standard definition. The camera is connected via firewire.
I tried to do this playing with the video/audio settings and could not get it to work. I am using Print to Video. I seem to have no problem when I print to video in HDV, but I can't get it to work in DV. Does anyone have any suggestions about settings or anything else that would make this work?

I thought I put the camera in the correct mode, but if I hear you accurately you are saying that you think it is one of my camera settings that is incorrect not my settings within FCP?
Just to verfiy what should all of my Audio/Video settings for Print to Video be for outputting DV to the camcorder? (Both video and audio)
Thanks Jerry-

Question about printing in lightroom

I have a new canon ip 6700d printer and was wondering if when I print from a raw photo in lightroom am I printing in the pro photo rgb color space? Bob

>I let lightroom manage my printing and my question was..Does lightroom print my raw photo in pro photo rgb color space or another color space?????? Bob
No. It only sends prophotoRGB to the driver when you select "managed by printer" The printer driver should then translate to its own icc profile. If you set draft mode printing, Lightroom sends adobeRGB data. But most importantly, if you let Lightroom manage color by selecting a profile, it sends data in the printing profile. The latter is the preferred method for the best output, but some printer drivers on some OS/printer combinations choke on that, so be aware.

Question about multizone DVD player plugged to iMac ?

I want to buy a multizone DVD player to plug to my french iMac. How will it react to NTSC signal ? In short, does the monitor play NTSC/PAL ?

Hi-
Please clarify- exactly how do you intend to connect your "multizone DVD player" to your iMac?
Is it a USB device, or something else? Are you using a TV tuner card, like an elgato, or something else?
You are aware that generally speaking that it is not possible to connect a DVD player to your iMac as if the iMac is a TV, right?
The only way you can connect a device like a DVD to an iMac directly is if you have one of the new 27 inch iMacs, and you make a connection with the mini display port.
Any other iMac will require either some sort of USB connection (assuming that the DVD device is just a DVD drive, and not a dedicated player), or an Analog/Digital converter of some sort, like a TV tuner USB device, etc.

Really quick question about printing a book

hello,
always asking questions... but you people on these forums are super nice and smart....
if i should upload the pictures to iphoto to print a book should i export the pictures as AdobeRGB 1998 or ProPhotoRGB .jpegs????
the website only says jpegs..... what would my best choice be.....????
answers are appreciated and thank you in advance

Yes - do not use Adobe RGB - sRGB is correct
and test a few photos - some people have had problems importing Lightroom edited photos into iPhoto
LN

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