Those of you who follow us on Facebook know that we have been living without a wide-format printer for months now. Our tech guru, Fadi, found us a used Epson 9880. (We highly recommend Fadi and Pacific Office Equipment for those of you in the Sacramento, California area – Tel. 916. 334.7875). All of our dyes printed just fine . . . with the exception of magenta. We knew when we strained our dyes before putting them in the cartridges (yes, we strain our dyes – you never know what you’ll find!) that something was not quite right with magenta. It just didn’t strain easily like all the other colors. Well, to make a long story short, we contacted our supplier, and they’re going to order a new batch of magenta. That should do the trick . . . we hope. Anyway, this whole disaster got me to remembering a great book I read this year (I guess it was just a harbinger of our current color woes): “A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire,” by Amy Butler Greenfield (2005). It’s almost ten years old, but it’s still a fine read. Greenfield makes history exciting, and I have a new appreciation for dyeing and painting. As Deb likes to say, “Damn those fugitive reds!”
I think the book’s cover says it all. You can still find it online at Powell’s Books.
2 responses to “Tech Tuesdays: The Color Red And Printer Woes”
The book is also available for Kindle on Amazon…going to push the buy now button…Thanks for the “review”
Let us know if you also get the color photos. There aren’t many, but they do emphasize the red!