Category Archives: Technology

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 →

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Adventures with Artificial Intelligence images

Posted on October 13, 2024 by Brian Lawler

I have had considerable success with Artificial Intelligence tools. Most of my success has been inside Adobe Bridge and Photoshop, but I also have had tremendous success with Chat GPT for publishing a catalog from an out-of-print booklet. Click here … Continue reading →

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AI Crop tool in new Photoshop is delightful

Posted on September 13, 2024 by Brian Lawler

In my previous two posts I have talked about features in the latest (currently beta) version of Photoshop that are worthy of your attention. This is another. Many (many!) times in my career I have wanted/needed a photo to have … Continue reading →

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Another victory
for automated intelligence in photography

Posted on July 31, 2024 by Brian Lawler

A few weeks back I wrote about my success in working with ChatGPT to manage some very complex text, making it editable, and making it possible for me to re-publish two out-of-print catalogs of matrices for Linotype and Intertype machines. … Continue reading →

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The Linotype and Intertype catalogs

Posted on July 11, 2024 by Brian Lawler

In the previous post I described how I published these out-of-print booklets. These are links to the PDF versions of those publications. Please feel free to download them. Addendum November 1, 2025: I discovered a wonderful online database of all … Continue reading →

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Of molten lead and ChatGPT

Posted on July 7, 2024 by Brian Lawler

At the core of The Blognosticator are posts about the graphic arts, printing processes, solutions to printing processes, and related items. The blog was originally an arm of Graphic Arts Monthly magazine, who hired me in 2000 to write blogs, … Continue reading →

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Turning my new lathe into a really nice lathe

Posted on November 9, 2023 by Brian Lawler

My plan was to write about some graphic arts subjects. I attended two terrific events related to printing recently, and I will write about my experiences – soon. But instead, I want to write about my new lathe. I have … Continue reading →

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Musings on pinhole photography

Posted on September 13, 2023 by Brian Lawler

If you’ve been reading this blog, you know that last week I returned from the 2023 Burning Man festival in northern Nevada. It was a terrific event, full of excitement and artistic energy – until it rained. Then it became … Continue reading →

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Designing and building a trailer for Burning Man

Posted on June 24, 2023 by Brian Lawler

I will be attending Burning Man again this year, my fifth. The event was canceled in 2020 and 2021, and I was in Germany in 2022, so I have missed three years. I will be going out onto the Black … Continue reading →

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Dancing in the laser light fantastic

Posted on February 16, 2023 by Brian Lawler

This is part 2 of my article about building a fixed positioning laser on the CNC machine. To read the first part, click here. I had decided to make the final fixed laser with a bracket made of aluminum. In … Continue reading →

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