Subject: Info-Mac Digest V18 #40 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="Info-Mac-Digest" --Info-Mac-Digest Info-Mac Digest Tue, 13 Mar 01 Volume 18 : Issue 40 Today's Topics: (A) Inkjet cartridges for CSW 2500 [*] SweetMail 2.08f10 [R] x-platform prob's CD labels - a warning CD labels - a warning Movie Database Question Sherlock quit working on IE 5 Sherlock quit working on IE 5 Sherlock quit working on IE 5 Sherlock quit working on IE 5 wanted a Kaleidoscope scheme for Solaris The Info-Mac Network is a volunteer organization that publishes the Info-Mac Digest and operates the Info-Mac Archive, a large network of FTP sites containing gigabytes of freely distributable Macintosh software. 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America Online donated the main Info-Mac machine . ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Info-Mac Digest V18 #40" ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 21:54:05 -0500 From: Melvyn Halbert To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: (A) Inkjet cartridges for CSW 2500 >Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 08:57:14 +0000 >From: Steve Smith >To: digest@info-mac.org >Subject: (Q) Need to know the Canon equivalent ink cartridges for CSW --snip--- >Does anyone know which Canon printers are equivalent to the CSW 2500, as >knowing this would enable me to buy from a wider selection of suppliers? >TIA >Steve Smith --------------------------------------- I have seen partial answers posted to Info-Mac; here is a longer one. The CSW 2500 is equivalent to the Canon BJC-4000 series. It can accept two kinds of Canon cartridges: (1). "Canon BC-20 BJ Cartidge" -- an all-black cartridge with an extra-large ink reservoir. This doesn't have a replaceable ink tank, so you have to discard (or recycle or refill) the whole unit when the ink runs out. Its price is typically about $34 in office-supply stores, but it is sometimes sold for less at places like Sam's Club. The Apple-branded unit, number M3240G/A, is sold at Staples and perhaps other office-supply stores. It is available at my university's computer store for $22, the lowest price I have ever seen (but only students and faculty can buy there). Either brand of this cartridge has 128 holes, more (I believe) than the black unit in the BC-21 described below, so it can provide higher resolution with the proper software. With this cartridge, the printer is rated at 720 by 360 dpi in Apple's Technical Specifications. I use the CSW 2500 software with my CSW 2400 printer. I tried the "Best" print quality once, but found it no different from "Normal" on casual examination. Since it takes much longer to print a page in "Best", I always use "Normal". (2). "Canon BC-21 BJ Cartridge" -- a color cartridge with one replaceable "BCI-21 Color" three-color ink tank and one replaceable "BCI-21 Black" black-ink tank. (Recent office-supply catalogs list only the BC-21e, which accepts the same ink tanks; I don't know what the differences are between the BC-21 and the BC-21e.) I have little experience with color cartridges, as I hardly ever use them. I have recently seen the Apple-branded equivalent cartridge (M3328G/A, I think) at my university's computer store and in a Staples store. It is not necessary to replace the master cartridge (the print head) when either of the tanks goes dry, but eventually you will have to do it because the tiny holes in the print head wear out and the resolution suffers. So when will it be necessary? Apple's spec sheet for the CSW 2500 printer rates this cartridge for 2000 pages at 7.5% coverage, while the ink tanks are rated only for 100 pages each at 7.5% coverage; I suppose this implies that the print head will last through emptying a succession of 20 ink tanks. If monochrome printing is your primary use, I think you will find it cheaper to use the all-black cartridge described in (1). Apple's spec sheet says the ink for each color lasts for 100 pages at 7.5% coverage (equivalent, I suppose, to 150 pages at 5% coverage), which should be compared with Apple's spec for the all-black cartridge of 900 pages at 5% coverage. The all-black cartridge can thus write six times as many monochrome pages as the small black tank, but it usually sells for less than six times the price of the small unit. I imagine Canon's cartridges contain the same amount of ink, but I've never seen a spec from Canon on this point. Note 1: Many of Canon's other printers can use the same cartridges. For my iMac I bought the very inexpensive BJC-2100 for its USB interface and was pleased to find that it accepts the BC-20 cartridge; the spares I keep on hand for the CSW 2400 serve just as well as spares for the BJC-2100. However, its color cartridge is BC-21e (not BC-21); I don't what differences there are between the BC-21 and the BC-21e -- they look identical and both incorporate a BCI-21 Color tank and a BCI-21 Black tank. Note 2: A supplier with rather low prices for some ink cartridges is L&M Computers, Miami, Florida, (800) 544-2910. I once ordered several Canon and Epson cartridges from them by telephone and had no problems dealing with them. Their web address for original printer cartridges is . Their website lists some Apple inkjet cartridges, but none for the CSW 2500. Mel Halbert ------------------------------ Date: 11 Mar 2001 From: sweetmail@mac.com To: Subject: [*] SweetMail 2.08f10 SweetMail is an internet e-mail client for Macintosh that provides most powerful features with sweet interface. SweetMail has multiple POP3 accounts, very fast searching, thread-view, filtering, templates, auto-wrap and many useful functions. System Requirements: * System 7.1 or later. (PPC/68K, including MacOSX public beta) * 4MB of Memory. [Archived as /info-mac/comm/inet/mail/sweet-mail-208f10.hqx; 56 K] ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 19:39:43 -0500 From: Saint John To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: [R] x-platform prob's At 03:47 -0500 3/11/01, Donald Webb wrote: >Apparently, the technicians are using Quicktime and are doing all >they can to make a hybrid educational CD. The problem is not really >with Mac programming or anything of that nature, as far as I can make >out. They're just plain running out of space. There's not only a >15-minute film but also a lot of other sound files and video clips. >Ideally, a DVD disk would be best, but they have to consider that not >all potential users would have that. There seems to be a way to put movies and so forth on the IBM-PC partition and access them from the Mac OS partition of a hybrid CD. This is what a lot of games do for their cut-scenes. Quicktime, of course, makes it platform-independent. The amount of space they'd need on the Mac side would probably be very small, if the only things on it were the movies runner and associated files! Unfortunately I don't know where to look for this information. Hope this helps anyway. +- Saint John -+ | "Nuclear weapons, if used correctly, can eradicate all life on | +-- Earth." (Talking Heads) -----------------------------------------+ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 11:09:40 -0800 From: "Cyrus Roton" To: "info-mac letters" Subject: CD labels - a warning abrody@smart.net wrote: > This tale comes from the dark side...all my CDs with labels became > unreadable, because they cause too much imbalance on my CD drive. > If you must label the CD, give it a number using a felt tip marker, > nowhere near any edges inside or out. Yes! the problem of imbalance becomes more severe with higher speed CD drives. I use a "Sharpie" nylon-tip pin to write information on my CDs. The fine-point types don't place much ink on the CD, unless you write a lot of info. And, if you visually balance the writing, there may be no trouble with imbalance. I use a 32X CD drive, and I have tried some of my CDs in a DVD drive. No noticeable balance problems. All I write on the CD itself is the name of the CD, and, for music, the name of the artist. BTW, I thought this thread started off by someone wanting to print front and back covers for CDs. But, it quickly migrated to printing labels. Anyway, a lot of good info was offered, and that's good. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 09:54:16 +0000 From: me@none.co.uk.invalid (Lobo) To: comp-sys-mac-digest@moderators.isc.org Subject: CD labels - a warning >Dear Digest readers, >This tale comes from the dark side...all my CDs with labels became >unreadable, because they cause too much imbalance on my CD drive. >If you must label the CD, give it a number using a felt tip marker, >nowhere near any edges inside or out. And use of course the jacket >that usually comes in the jewel box to associate that number with the >disk. After that happened I decided to chunk out all the CD labels >I got as I saw they were a waste of money and sticking to all my >papers. And this was Avery CD labels. I am very skeptical that >the current stompers will really stomp solid enough you won't have >problems in the future. > >Sincerely, >abrody@smart.net Labels on two CDs curled up at the edges and I was unable to insert them into the drive. I peeled them off and was fortunate enough that they continued to work. Just my experience. Lobo. ta reply, rub oot -Lobo- from... peter@plalp.-Lobo-freeserve.co.uk ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 09:12:48 -0700 From: jemmons@primenet.com (Jim Emmons) To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: Movie Database Question Hi, Sometime ago, a friend of mine (who uses Windoze) sent me a list of his video holdings that he had generated from an Access database he had. This list included a lot of information about each film, including a graphic of the advertisement or cover. Knowing how lazy my friend is , I asked where did he get all that information, and how did it get into his database? He told me that there was a software package that accessed a movie database, much like CDDB, that held all this information. I went looking for it - and have now lost it. From what I recall, this service had links to software programs that would, upon entering a title, access the service, download the information, and add it to your local database. I saw lots of Windoze products, but don't recall seeing any for the Mac. So, two quick questions: What is the name of that service, and is there any Mac software that will do what I just described? Thanks, Jim Jim Emmons | A Macintosh in a roomful of PCs is like | a rose in the middle of a pile of male cow manure. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 08:17:15 -0800 From: dannell@primenet.com (Andy Dannelley) To: comp-sys-mac-digest@moderators.isc.org Subject: Sherlock quit working on IE 5 Well, I just got word from another digest reader that Yes, the Sherlock/IE/OS 9.1 is a known bug, and that there is no known fix at this time. Thanks to all who responded. At least we know we're not alone. CU@DL AndyD Walt Disney World To Go -- WDW in your Palm! Learn the differences! Never be lost at a Disney park again... See my Disneyland and Walt Disney World comparison photos at, Anaheim to Orlando: A Bi-Coastal Comparison of Disney. Also, take the test! Anaheim or Orlando: The Bi-Coastal Question of Disney Drop by: ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 06:43:11 -0800 From: Jim Robertson To: "Henry Seiden" , Subject: Sherlock quit working on IE 5 >I'd be willing to bet that it's a time/date time out because mine happened >as well. I'm pretty sure it worked when I installed OS9.1 which is the last >change of consequence I did on a system level. I agree that it could well have to do with updating to or installing Mac OS 9.1, but I don't believe it's because of a programmed expiration date of the AppleScript that probably implements putting Sherlock in the IE toolbar. There's probably some incompatibility between something in OS 9.1 and the routine that accomplishes that integration. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 07:12:30 -0500 From: Henry Seiden To: , Subject: Sherlock quit working on IE 5 On 3/11/01 3:47, this computer's owner, The Info-Mac Network wrote: > From: Jim Robertson > Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 23:04:41 -0800 > To: "Andy Dannelley" , > Subject: Sherlock quit working on IE 5 > > On 3/8/01 10:06 AM, Andy Dannelley at dannell@primenet.com stated > >> A couple of days ago I noticed that the Sherlock Icon/option on IE 5 was >> greyed out. > > Happened to me, too. I don't know the reason. If you find out, please > post a message to the info-mac list. > I'd be willing to bet that it's a time/date time out because mine happened as well. I'm pretty sure it worked when I installed OS9.1 which is the last change of consequence I did on a system level. I have used Sherlock with IE5 often previously and three folks seeing it at (roughly) the same time with different systems is just too creepy to be coincidence. Maybe I'll just go back to Netscape 4.7 for a while. First I'll check MacTopia, MS's Mac connection. http://www.mactopia.com -- ....and though the holes were very small, they had to count them all. Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall....! "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 18:49:45 -0800 From: "Ass. Ya fuego." To: Subject: Sherlock quit working on IE 5 simple. sherlock, not an alias to sherlock, must be "physically" in the apple menu items folder. ding! it's in the IE FAQ posted by the moderator of IE's newsgroup. check the free msoft news groups for IE on the mac groups included with outlook express to get more info when you have q's about IE's or OE's behaviour. pol potlatch "Turning frowns into trials since 1967." ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 23:03:46 -0500 From: "abrody@smart.net" To: digest@info-mac.org Subject: wanted a Kaleidoscope scheme for Solaris Dear Digest readers, Ages ago I was fortunate enough to use a Solaris SparcStation. It had a marvelous cream colored window with strange control triangles on the window trims. More recently, I found a program called Church Windows which hasn't worked for me since at least MacOS 8.5, and may since MacOS 8.0 which was in the archives, which had about 6 or 7 schemes, and one was the exact scheme of the SparcStation. Anybody know if somebody made that into a Kaleidoscope scheme, and where I may find it? Thank you. Sincerely, abrody@smart.net -- Come visit an internet index of 14 topics and over 800 links at: http://www.index-site.com/ All links verified monthly. -------------------------------- --Info-Mac-Digest-- End of Info-Mac Digest ******************************