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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

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Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 21:54:05 -0500
From: Melvyn Halbert <halbertm@esper.com>
To: digest@info-mac.org
Subject: (A) Inkjet cartridges for CSW 2500


>Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 08:57:14 +0000
>From: Steve Smith <smiths@ferndown.tt.slb.com>
>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

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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
<http://store.yahoo.com/lmcomp/orprincar.html>.  Their website lists some
Apple inkjet cartridges, but none for the CSW 2500.

Mel Halbert

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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]

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Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 19:39:43 -0500
From: Saint John <StJ@mac.com>
To: digest@info-mac.org
Subject: [R] x-platform prob's

At 03:47 -0500 3/11/01, Donald Webb <donwebb@attcanada.ca> 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  <StJ@brain-sucker.com> <http://www.brain-sucker.com> -+
|  "Nuclear weapons, if used correctly, can eradicate all life on    |
+-- Earth." (Talking Heads) -----------------------------------------+

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Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 11:09:40 -0800
From: "Cyrus Roton" <croton@iwvisp.com>
To: "info-mac letters" <digest@info-mac.org>
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.

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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

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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
<jemmons@primenet.com>	|  a rose in the middle of a  pile of male cow manure.

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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

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Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 06:43:11 -0800
From: Jim Robertson <jamesrob@sonic.net>
To: "Henry Seiden" <hmsbubba@earthling.net>, <digest@info-mac.org>
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.

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Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 07:12:30 -0500
From: Henry Seiden <hmsbubba@earthling.net>
To: <digest@info-mac.org>, <jamesrob@sonic.net>
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 <jamesrob@sonic.net>
> Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 23:04:41 -0800
> To: "Andy Dannelley" <dannell@primenet.com>, <digest@info-mac.org>
> 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

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Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall....!
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Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 18:49:45 -0800
From: "Ass. Ya fuego." <potlatch@runbox.com>
To: <digest@info-mac.org>
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." 

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Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 23:03:46 -0500
From: "abrody@smart.net" <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
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