Category Archives: Technology

Der Fingerpokenspieler

Posted on March 24, 2026 by Brian Lawler

This is a tale of making unruly film behave ruly so it can be digitized. It started last November when I built a camera stand for digitizing my archive of actual film. I have written seven posts (To read them, … Continue reading →

…and then there was pincushion distortion

Posted on February 26, 2026 by Brian Lawler

This is another in a chain of posts related to my effort to digitize my film library. Please click here to read the first in this series. In the RF-series lens collection made by Canon, there is only one true … Continue reading →

Posted in Adventures, Photography, Photoshop techniques, Scanning, Software, Technology | Tagged Adobe lens profiles, Adobe lens profiling software, Blognosticator, Brian Lawler, Digitizing film, lens profiles in Adobe Camera Raw, lens profiles in Adobe Lightroom, The Blognosticator | Leave a comment

More on the camera stand project

Posted on November 18, 2025 by Brian Lawler

In yesterday’s post I described how I built a camera stand to re-photograph (“digitize”) my film. In order to be more helpful, I thought I would share here my working drawings and my engineering drawings so that others might make … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Color Management, Gadgets, Photography, Photoshop techniques, Printing and Printing Processes, Technology | Tagged Blognosticator, Brian Lawler, building a photo copy stand, building things with CNC machine, Digitizing film, reproducing film, The Blognosticator | Leave a comment

Building a camera stand on the CNC machine

Posted on November 17, 2025 by Brian Lawler

I have thousands – tens of thousands – of photos on film. These include 35mm negatives and slides, 120 film from my two Hasselblad cameras, and a boat load (a small boat) of 70mm sprocketed Ektachrome film. The 70mm era … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Building things, Gadgets, Photography, Technology | Tagged Blognosticator, Brian Lawler, camera stand, copying film, Digitizing film, The Blognosticator | Leave a comment

Landa avoids financial failure

Posted on September 12, 2025 by Brian Lawler

In my last technical analysis of the Landa press, I mentioned that the company had gone to the Central District Court in Tel Aviv to seek bankruptcy protection. Facing about $500 million in debt, they hoped to prevent total failure … Continue reading →

Posted in Business, Graphic Arts people, Printing and Printing Processes, Technology | Tagged Benny Landa, Blognosticator, Brian Lawler, FIMI, Israeli District Court, Landa bankruptcy, Landa Digital, The Blognosticator | Leave a comment

Thin lines and fine type

Posted on August 29, 2025 by Brian Lawler

This is the fourth in a series of analyses of the output of the Landa S10P press. If you would like to start at the beginning, click here. Whenever a printer gets out a magnifying glass, there are bound to … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Color Management, New technology, Printing and Printing Processes, Software, Technology | Tagged Blognosticator, Brian Lawler, Cal Poly, Landa press test, Landa S10P, Landa S10P press, The Blognosticator | Leave a comment

Printing high-resolution line art on the S10P

Posted on August 5, 2025 by Brian Lawler

Update: I have been reading about financial troubles at Landa. The company has asked for protection from its creditors in an event similar to Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the U.S. With over $500 million in debt, the company hopes to … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Color Management, History, New technology, Photography, Photoshop techniques, Printing and Printing Processes, Scanning, Technology | Tagged Blognosticator, Brian Lawler, Landa ink-jet press, Landa Nanoprnting, Landa S10P, The Blognosticator | Leave a comment

Not printing colors that the press can print

Posted on July 17, 2025 by Brian Lawler

Note: Landa recently announced a new version of their press, the S11P. The most significant difference is speed. Where the presses I have tested print 6,250 two-sided impressions per hour, the new Landa press can print at twice that speed. … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Color Management, Graphic Arts people, New technology, Photography, Photoshop techniques, Printing and Printing Processes, Technology | Tagged Blognosticator, Brian Lawler, Cal Poly, Color profiling a Landa press, Landa Nanographic printing technology, Landa S10P press, The Blognosticator | Leave a comment

Exploring the capabilities of the Landa S10P press

Posted on June 30, 2025 by Brian Lawler

I recently finished a year teaching at Cal Poly. I retired from that institution in 2020, and was rehired last year to fill-in for a colleague on leave. The course I taught was Color Management, which I had taught for … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Color Management, Education, Photography, Photoshop techniques, Printing and Printing Processes, Scanning, Technology | Tagged Blognosticator, Brian Lawler, Cal Poly, Landa SP10, Nanographic technology, Press testing, Testing the Landa press, The Blognosticator | Leave a comment

Failing to profile a direct-to-garment T shirt press

Posted on June 5, 2025 by Brian Lawler

At Printing United last year I visited the Aeoon Technologies booth, where I met Austin Thom who runs a business in Oregon printing digital images on T shirts with one of these machines. I was dazzled by the quality of … Continue reading →

Posted in Adventures, Art, Color Management, Photoshop techniques, Printing and Printing Processes, Technology | Tagged Aeoon, Aeoon direct-to-garment, Blognosticator, Brian Lawler, Cal Poly, direct-to-garment, Direct-to-gilm printing, DTG, Inj-jet printing T shirts, The Blognosticator | 3 Comments