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10 free PDF creators, and some split/merge tools

PDF, as a document format, I find really useful. I find it useful because I can share a document with you, and it will be formatted as I intended it. In other words, you’ll see the same page layout as I see.

To create PDFs, I use CutePDF Writer. I love it so [...]

What is that font?

I was given a paper document which I was asked to scan in and convert to a Microsoft Word document. That isn’t as hard as it sounds, as Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software has been available for a long time.

What is difficult though, is trying to match up the exact font the original [...]

My PC Is A Printer

Well it could be according to HP:

No, I don’t know why the HP Detection tool would think that …

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HP Printer Status Notification Pop-up messages

HP makes it easy to hate them. And I’m not the only one who does. Angry Technician does a fine line of HP hating. Today’s hate post topic? The HP Printer Status Notification Pop-up (SNP) message:

One of our customers complained about the message. They don’t want to be bugged by any printer [...]

Printer toner

Printer toner, depending on who you ask, is cancerogenic.

Or not.

The Material Safety Data Sheets I’ve seen, say not. But I still wouldn’t breath toner in.

Now some of the printers I’ve worked on over the years, have conspired to leak toner over me.

There was the StorageTek mainframe printer, with [...]

The Elephant and The Mouse

The Pantone Matching System is a wonderful idea. Imagine being able to say “I want that exact shade of red on my poster.” And actually get it.

That, in a nutshell, is what the Pantone Matching System is about. It’s a system of describing colors, so the color you ask for on your [...]

24 Screen Capture Utilities

Since my last update in June, I find myself using the Microsoft Snipping Tool more often for those quick screen capture jobs. But I am still using Printkey 2000 and Timesnapper.

Here are some others …

Free

Name & download link	Comments
Bug Shooting	“Bug Shooting is a free screenshot utility that was developed for software testers who use bug tracking systems”
Cropper Capture	"It offers a resizable, translucent capture area that can be moved and sized freely to capture the portions that you want to grab."
Gadwin PrintScreen
Greenshot	“Greenshot is a revolutionary screenshot tool optimized for productivity.”
HoverSnap	“HoverSnap is a a free handy snapshot tool with jpg, png, bmp and gif support.HoverSnap can take snapshots of the full screen, active window or a selected area.”
Jing	Recommended by Leo Laporte.
Lightscreen	automates the capture of screenshots.
Microsoft Snipping Tool for XP Tablet	For those times when you just want to “snip” part of a screen.
Microsoft Snipping Tool Vista	It’s included!
MWsnap	multi-language
PicPick
PrintKey 2000	This is what I use. See my previous blog post about it.
Screenshot Captor	Donation-ware
Screen Hunter
Snippy
Wink

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"Use of HP UPD is in my experience counter productive."

Use of HP UPD is in my experience counter productive.

If you need to print to HP use the CLJ 9500MFP PS driver (or PCL6 or PCL5c if you must). This driver works on HP LaserJets. This driver is cluster compliant comes in 64bit and 32bit flavours and works with Novell/Iprint Citrix – the [...]

The printer does not print

The problem was described to me like this:

When you print to the network printer, and want to use the “URGENT” watermark setting, it does not work. When you print to a locally installed printer, it works.

The answer? When I install the printer driver on the Windows Server I specify WinPrint / [...]

3 fools and a printer.

Problem:

Konica Minolta C652 multi-function printer, with Fiery RIP installed, refuses to print.

Cause & solution:

If you leave the Fiery RIP Controller in Setup / Menu mode, it stops the printer from printing. You can tell the Fiery RIP is in this mode by looking at the item circled in the picture. [...]

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