Lately, I’ve been playing with printers-trying to control the amount of cyan, magenta, yellow, and black printed by the printer. For various reasons I’ve been doing it in Java, and I ran up against some brick walls. There is no good HOWTO available, so I decided to write my own…

From 2008 to 2010, I ran a blog that had a small following with 1-2 thousand hits a month. I stopped only due to my employer’s publication and social media restrictions. While the restrictions had always been in place, I had justification to post due to my academic research. Unfortunately, that jus…