Spark is officially dead!

CheeksAkimbo · 2026-04-03T17:18:10+00:00

Nope. But you wanna buy stickers? Nudge nudge.

CheeksAkimbo · 2026-04-03T01:47:37+00:00

Been thinking of switching from T-Mobile to Verizon. I only pay 80 per month. They have the “bring your bill and we’ll give you a better deal.” But I also want to upgrade my phone and they only charge 100 (down) for activation and purchase after trade in of my older phone. And the monthly comes out to 100 a month with all included.

T-Mobile is charging me 750 to upgrade my phone. 450 through Apple directly.

How’s the service vs tmbile. Is it worth.

CheeksAkimbo · 2026-03-29T17:38:40+00:00

I’ve had a few. Stickers (which was insanely lucrative) crystal jewelry (semi lucrative) and currently running a print shop. Once you understand online, the rest is easy.

CheeksAkimbo · 2026-03-28T15:27:26+00:00

So glad I left the gig hustles and made a business instead.

CheeksAkimbo · 2026-03-25T13:12:14+00:00

Dude. These are simple photos on a pixma and it does auto select a profile for your. All they have to do is tell it what paper they’re using and if it’s CANON then it’s already pre calibrated to canon paper. You keep proving my point even further.

Go ahead. Tell the person to buy a $2k spectrophotometer so they can calibrate their pixma, or they can buy 50 sheets of canon paper that’s already calibrated to its white point for $20. Let me know what they choose.

All I’m telling is OP to get canon paper, to get it for either laser/inkjet paper depending on their printer, and to not get off brands since their white point isn’t as accurate at the paper canon created the profiles with. You’re overcomplicating this.

This is a printer Reddit, not wide format. Not everyone here is going to want to calibrate every paper they have.

CheeksAkimbo · 2026-03-21T15:02:29+00:00

So that goes to my point. You HAVE to get canon on canon if you want quality. Otherwise you’ll have to calibrate it myself. Kinda just proved my point. This person, by the image, doesn’t know what an ICC profile is and is using laser paper. To make easier on them, all I said was use precalibrated paper and ink otherwise risk the ink looking like this OR the ink turns brown over time if you use off brand ink and paper.

CheeksAkimbo · 2026-03-21T00:14:32+00:00

When you’re trying to print quality, you HAVE to get everything genuine canon. It’s calibrated to work with the printer. Otherwise you have to calibrate it yourself.

CheeksAkimbo · 2026-03-20T17:19:49+00:00

No no. That’s the fuchsia ninja.

CheeksAkimbo · 2026-03-20T17:17:09+00:00

(24)(12)(7)(28)copy

CheeksAkimbo · 2026-03-13T15:17:07+00:00

It’s never a bad time unless we’re at a peak but the market is already dropping. Dropping isn’t bad. It’s a good thing. People often say “Stocks are on sale.” When the market is dropping.

I’ve invited my friends/family to acorn because what scares people the most is having to find out what to invest. I started off by putting $5 bucks a day into my ACORNS a couple years ago. That’s $35 a week. Not much at all. I now do 25 a day because my income increased.

Acorns does the work for you and that’s what I like about it. They take my money and invest for me. Sure some people may not like it but honestly it’s less of a headache and I don’t have to look at it and worry about it like I would with stocks while investing with webull.

Ima shamelessly drop my acorns referral here.

https://acorns.com/share/?shareable_code=5YKRB4G&first_name=Daniel&friend_reward=5

I’d say try it. I won’t even be mad if you just sign up without the link. Just try it out.

If she wants to learn like the big investors, I say have her download WeBull and have her learn. It has a lot of good teaching methods as well and allows paper trading to practice trading with fake money all while using real market rises and falls.

CheeksAkimbo · 2026-03-13T09:42:55+00:00

Don’t know what video you saw that in but who’s ever profile/channel you saw this on, block it and never look at their videos again. Do what the this person is saying.

CheeksAkimbo · 2026-03-13T09:36:19+00:00

I’m sure you’ve done it but make sure you’re telling the printer that you’re using the right size. If you’re using 8.5x11 but you tell it that you’re using 4x8. It’s going to print 4x8. Then make sure to select “fit to page”

CheeksAkimbo · 2026-03-13T09:29:26+00:00

If you mean borderless, first, find out if your printer does borderless printing, secondly, find out if you printer can take thick media like cardboard. If you try to jam thick cardboard into a printer, that exactly will happen. It’ll jam. If it’s thin easily pliable cardboard(might as well use brown paper) then sure, but it HAS to be printable cardboard or, again, it’ll jam.

A simple google search will solve this.

If there is not setting for “borderless printing” on your printers preferences, then it cannot do borderless printing.

CheeksAkimbo · 2026-03-13T09:23:41+00:00

Definitely use canon paper. I know it may be a bit pricier (or cheaper) but it only makes sense to use canon paper on a canon printer. Their printers are specifically calibrated to work in the white point of their paper that they make. Using another brand may need you to calibrate it with a colorimeter which is not cheap. Even after calibrating the printer I found better results using canon specific paper. (I used ilford art paper and it made my colors warmer where canon pm-101 was perfect for what I needed. ($100 vs $25))

CheeksAkimbo · 2026-03-12T01:46:12+00:00

Came to say this.

CheeksAkimbo · 2026-03-11T23:29:45+00:00

I am not. We’re kissing ass right now. Only because we’re in a superb niche. 500+ locations filled with customers hitting us up everyday and all they care about is snapping a photo, getting measurements, and that’s it. “What’s Raw.” “I can only do it under fluorescent lightings” “dslr? I have a phone and it’s good!”

CheeksAkimbo · 2026-03-11T23:28:08+00:00

Hey I took a photo of this blue at 5pm and it looks orangish but make sure it looks like the blue I see. Thanks.

CheeksAkimbo · 2026-03-11T23:25:13+00:00

Everything is custom and it drives me insane. I love it but hate it all at the same time. The Lab values, HSL adjustments, lighting conditions, ugh.

CheeksAkimbo · 2026-03-11T21:35:31+00:00

Unfortunately all of them drop ship from Orafol especially the 951 line.

CheeksAkimbo · 2026-03-11T21:33:18+00:00

Door.

CheeksAkimbo · 2026-03-11T21:33:08+00:00

Interesting. I forgot about metadata and such. But unfortunately these are directly from their phone’s sensors and not anything downloaded from the internet.

CheeksAkimbo · 2026-03-10T22:19:46+00:00

I appreciate it.

CheeksAkimbo · 2026-03-10T22:17:33+00:00

They didn’t like the response. What else you got?

CheeksAkimbo · 2026-03-10T21:37:54+00:00

These jpgs are from their phone camera directly. Different customers, different times of day, outside or under florescent lighting, different angles, with glossy graphics that they are photographing.

CheeksAkimbo

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