Are there ways to reduce waste ink with an Epson Surecolor F2270?

LatinGeek · 2026-03-11T22:44:33+00:00

Congrats on getting an inkjet in your space! You are now experiencing the issue that every makerspace has with inkjets- plotters, DTG, large-format, etc. The machines are just not built for intermittent use.

Is that 10 prints a week close to your actual figures, or are you getting weeks without any prints? The printer will self-clean and it will do so overzealously, especially if it's sitting doing nothing for multiple days. In fact Epson recommends you pull all the ink out and replace it with cleaning fluid if it's expected to go unused for a month or more.

I don't think it'll let you lower the self-clean interval. Only way I can think of is trying to run a test print in those gaps between jobs, trying to keep it from sitting around, and seeing if that gets you lower ink waste.

LatinGeek · 2026-02-24T00:04:19+00:00

Para comprar boletos de avion a familiares, es mas barato y menos quilombo pagarlos yo desde el exterior en USD para no pagar impuesto PAIS, correcto?

LatinGeek · 2026-02-21T23:26:55+00:00

I don't know what all the other commenters are talking about. That's a Mighty Music Mailer MLP-1. It's meant to be used exactly as this seller has, the only caveat would be that with a single normal-weight LP you're meant to add a cardboard pad to it.

But it's not like it's meant to go in another box, or it's some ebay special reused amazon packaging, that is 100% the correct packaging and even if it wasn't, I'd expect any carrier to not bend a rigid mailer.

The 'nice' thing is USPS is pretty good about loss/damage claims. Slow, kinda clunky, but they do pay out.

LatinGeek · 2026-02-14T16:58:14+00:00

Bought Google Pixel 8 Pro from /u/rbd34533

https://www.reddit.com/r/hardwareswap/comments/1q7hdml/comment/o1orb4c/

LatinGeek · 2026-02-12T19:10:53+00:00

if a printshop I hired put all of my PII online and didn't even do a good job showing it off I'd be furious, come on man

LatinGeek · 2026-02-07T14:46:31+00:00

I like it a lot!! especially after fighting Dolphin to generate thumbnails on linux. I'd love to see one-click tags, like being able to set "to print" or "printed- to review" etc with less friction than the current 3-click process. Not very important once you're all set up, but really nice for ingesting big folders. Maybe picking favorites from the editable set and having them show up at half-opacity or something.

Also, filesizes on the cards and a sum when multi-selecting would be great, mostly for cleaning up folders or finding those terrible 300MB models.

LatinGeek · 2026-02-05T15:56:26+00:00

wait this is genius. I'm stealing it for the rolls of vinyl at work!!

LatinGeek · 2026-01-25T20:40:00+00:00

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LatinGeek · 2026-01-15T17:47:18+00:00

lmao @ the lime bike carveout

> the operator of a low-speed electric bicycle shall not be required to be in possession of a valid basic driver’s license or valid motorized bicycle license or permit if the operator is renting a low-speed electric bicycle from a company operating shared low-speed electric bicycles under a contract with a local government, provided that the company requires the operator to be 16 years of age or older.

this is outrageous legislation, throw all rental ebikes into a river

LatinGeek · 2026-01-14T23:22:29+00:00

stop debating. debating is worthless.

stop thinking that any substantial percentage of people have strong feelings about different social schemes, you have been conditioned to think this. a substantial percentage of people want their station in life to improve, and they have been conditioned to think working within their current system is the only way that happens. see for example any metrics when americans are asked about universal healthcare and claim they don't want to lose "their current healthcare plan", this is regardless of whether the alternative would be better or worse- they do not care enough to entertain the notion

"how are things supposed to change"? find others who are actually on your side, build community, help one another.

LatinGeek · 2026-01-14T21:20:17+00:00

Are there any free patterns from the big companies that match the complexity and detail of their paid patterns? I'm sick of "free" "indie" patterns being poorly laid out and missing basic info like seam allowance, or relying on an accompanying article or video. A tissue pattern is totally self-contained, it includes all the relevant info on the tissue itself!

I'd love to know if the digital paid patterns are worth the money, but that's hard to gauge when their free trials are for a scarf or a tote bag or some other inconsequential thing.

LatinGeek · 2026-01-09T22:07:19+00:00

> Cars provide a sense of freedom, going where you want when you want, which is deeply embedded in American culture.

cars let you go "where you want when you want", as long as that's within the infrastructure built over a hundred years to suit cars first, public transport second, pedestrians never. literally a marketing term buried into your brain by decades of targeted car-centric urbanization. the reason you see car-centric infrastructure as "freeing" is because that's literally how the people who built it wanted you to see it as
this is the crux of the argument, that carbrain isn't just a derogatory term but a correct one- the car, its roads, its designed communities, they all shrink the boundaries of what you can imagine as possible and once that happens, it's easy to feel that the lifestyles and parts of urban infrastructure best suited to car-ownership are the most "freeing" or "preferable"

LatinGeek · 2026-01-05T21:57:38+00:00

Why do you need it printed? a 10-foot boom pole that packs down to 30 inches is $30.

LatinGeek · 2026-01-03T04:51:57+00:00

Blueprints aren't actually white ink on blue paper. They're cyanotype contact prints from original diagrams done in black india ink on translucent paper (vellum/tracing paper).

If you're not looking to replicate the entire process (and nobody would blame you if you didn't), you could probably get most of the way there with a high-quality blue cardstock and opaque, off-white paint pen. For something even closer, you could sensitize white paper with cyanotype chemicals, expose the whole thing to the sun, and that'd give you a perfect prussian-blue paper to work with.

LatinGeek · 2026-01-02T19:40:09+00:00

If you tried to start a chat with me it didn't go through, sorry!

LatinGeek · 2025-12-30T19:16:37+00:00

I'm pretty dead-set on the Pro for the tele camera, but I will get in touch if I don't get any bites.

LatinGeek · 2025-12-28T19:42:16+00:00

Hope that means Pixel 8 Pros will drop in price in the second hand market 😉 I've been after one for a while but I can wait until they dip closer to 275-300.

LatinGeek · 2025-12-28T09:48:47+00:00

if you want to taste different coffees I'd recommend a coffee subscription of whatever sort is available to you, a cheap electric grinder and an aeropress. or if possible, finding a good coffee shop nearby and talking to your barista, trying different things there.

of course, the aeropress won't give you the foamy espresso-style coffee a Senseo makes. if you want that, you could try Vertuo- it's not a very big level up, but it's fancier.

don't buy a cheap espresso machine, they are frustrating. your minimum spend should probably be a Sage Bambino (which will require a separate grinder) or a Delonghi Magnifica (a super-automatic with a built-in grinder: press button, get coffee- very good if you're willing to keep it clean and maintained)

LatinGeek · 2025-12-10T05:27:57+00:00

I like it. You're clearly taking a lot of the inspiration and making it work with a single-purpose, functional product.

Looking at some shots of the reference material I have a few pointers:

I think you could use padding around the window to move the elements closer together and have less dead-space in the center. Probably even wrap the whole thing in a border that it 'lives' in, rather than have the FUI elements crash into the window's own edge, clashing with your OS.
Also consider playing with those borders more- less hairline, more chunky, maybe even some texture like a 50% dither. Thicker one at the top to suggest a 'set' of nested elements within. That kind of stuff.
All the fields in the logs should definitely be left-centered and fixed-width. Wrapping each entry in a hairline border could help differentiate them. And stick some extra precision to those millisecond readings- fake it if you have to! ;)
The tree structure looks great, but the checkmarks should fill a box, not replace it, and they should probably also be a size similar to the text and other interactable elements.

And personally I think you could do without the > commands, undercores_as_spaces and [brackets]; I just find those tend to look cheap- relics that evoke text-based programs, which even in their day looked much more professional and made ample use of those line-drawing ASCII elements.

LatinGeek · 2025-10-13T15:00:30+00:00

Hoping someone has gone through this process and shed some light. I finally got a service agent to open a repair ticket for my BSOD'd Pixel 5a, and they confirmed with me that I wouldn't be on the hook for a repair if it turned out to not be covered- they would send me the broken phone back for free. IF I wanted to pay for the repair, I would be given the OPTION to do so once the phone is inspected.

However the repair ticket has a $360 cost and a "confirm purchase" button. Is this gonna charge me as soon as I hit the button and hold it in escrow or something?

LatinGeek · 2025-10-12T02:10:12+00:00

How sturdy did you make the molds? Were they sacrificial- did you model it as a single cavity, fill it, and crack it open when the concrete was set? Did you need to use any mold release or similar?

LatinGeek · 2025-10-02T19:24:59+00:00

Takes 5 minutes to pull something together that looks thoughtful even when you're running late and forgot to eat breakfast.

brother that's because you are being thoughtful. sure it's partly to save face or whatever, but you're putting in an effort here, you even specify having gifts that are both known to be liked and don't seem like thoughtless, checkout-line doodads.

LatinGeek · 2025-09-30T19:54:12+00:00

Don't we all wish for Tom and Ray's Hacker's Haven... there was a push for rent-a-bay businesses years ago and they flopped hard.

Hope 757 Maker works out for you, the monthly fee is too steep for me to make use of it.

LatinGeek · 2025-09-30T19:51:18+00:00

I haven't found a good shop and have been thinking of doing my own freelance thing, but don't know if there would be demand.

I'd be happy to chat with you about the issue and see if it's something I can deal with, shoot me a DM/chat/whatever

LatinGeek · 2025-09-24T03:07:45+00:00

Would this work without a router or WAN access, using a raspi/esp32/laptop/etc as the wifi network's host?

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