<html><head></head><body>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.<br><br>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!!<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On September 26, 2021 9:17:30 AM EDT, Solomon Peachy via Ale <ale@ale.org> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 08:26:49AM -0400, Jim Kinney via Ale wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">I tried printing like that for about 1 page. Fixed that setting right <br>after I got more toner!<br><br> Can't find white ink or printer grade black paper. Black construction <br> paper isn't constructed for constructing anything.<br></blockquote><br>A few years ago I did some custom driver work (with Gutenprint) that <br>adapted some high-end prosumer inkjets to use custom all-gray ink sets; <br>the goal was to create very high-quality printed x-rays, both on paper <br>and transparent film that could be used in a traditional medical <br>lightbox.<br><br>So this white-on-black stuff is out there, but one has to know where to <br>look, and you'll end up paying $$$ (vs standard inks/toners/papers) for <br>the privilege of being different.<br><br> - Solomon</pre></blockquote></div><br>-- <br>Computers amplify human error<br>Super computers are really cool</body></html>