Printer Woes

[ehyde]

There HAS to be a better way to solve my printer's color balance issues than manually lowering the cyan saturation in each individual image. Ugh. But whatever it is, I have not found it. Printer troubleshooting is my least favorite aspect of bookbinding.

Before I got to this step of the process, I was having a fun time typesetting--that's what I've been doing with most of my free time this week. Most of my reading has been (sigh) rubbernecking the twitter situation, but I do have a fic rec to drop off: "Hear a song so deeply" by so_shhy It's a modern cultivation au, which I'm predisposed to like already, but something else I really liked about this was the worldbuilding surrounding musical cultivation and demonic cultivation. In this universe, the Lan sect's musical cultivation techniques were lost centuries ago, and LWJ is a researcher attempting to reconstruct them. If I bound this fic (we'll see; my list is long), I'd like to do some sort of longstitch/visible stitching technique with the stitching on the spine mimicking guqin strings.

Related: sometimes I ask myself "is this book design too gimmicky?" and then I remind myself that I am printing and binding fanfiction and I should do what makes me happy.

Comments

[merelydovely]

bookbinding is SO COOL and while I can't handle another hobby, I'm so glad people do it and that it seems to be picking up steam as a fandom activity. sorry about your printer woes; printers are truly the devil.

this fic also looks excellent, thanks for the rec!

[libitina]

I have no idea about your printing.

But I loved that fic! Good rec

[rhysiana]

I love all the things you do with ficbinding! Please keep being as self-indulgent as possible!

And I'm sending cooperation thoughts at your printer as hard as I can.

[ehyde]

I mostly figured out my printer issues! It turns out I shouldn't do test prints directly from the design program, that's what was handling the colors badly, not the printer itself.

[rhysiana]

Oh, thank goodness! That's much easier to fix.