[ale] Print vs electronic: Was: Remove systemd network handling

[Jim Kinney]

The all-digital x-ray. Except they want a printed version. The old-school film version costs way less but the new digital stuff is far less radiation exposure and better detail and resolution. The trade-off is a significant cost and longer time of imaging as the new gear does a scan with a "penlight" instead of a blast with a "floodlight". Cool stuff.

My dad was running the American Chemical Society meetings in the southeast in the 70's. I got to go to the meeting where the creation and testing of the new CAT scan technology was introduced. Way cool!!

On September 26, 2021 9:17:30 AM EDT, Solomon Peachy via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 08:26:49AM -0400, Jim Kinney via Ale wrote:
>> I tried printing like that for about 1 page. Fixed that setting right
>
>> after I got more toner!
>> 
>>  Can't find white ink or printer grade black paper. Black
>construction 
>>  paper isn't constructed for constructing anything.
>
>A few years ago I did some custom driver work (with Gutenprint) that 
>adapted some high-end prosumer inkjets to use custom all-gray ink sets;
>
>the goal was to create very high-quality printed x-rays, both on paper 
>and transparent film that could be used in a traditional medical 
>lightbox.
>
>So this white-on-black stuff is out there, but one has to know where to
>
>look, and you'll end up paying $$$ (vs standard inks/toners/papers) for
>
>the privilege of being different.
>
> - Solomon
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>Solomon Peachy			      pizza at shaftnet dot org (email&xmpp)
>                                     @pizza:shaftnet dot org   (matrix)
>High Springs, FL                      speachy (libra.chat)

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