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QUERY TASKS, NOTES, ATTACHMENTS BY OBJECT TYPE USING SOQL In any case, the below is an example of how I was able to correctly restructure my query. //returns a list of note records where the parent is a specific type, in this case Opportunity. SELECT Id, Parent.Id, Parent.Type FROM Note WHERE Parent.Type='Opportunity'. The Note object uses ParentId as does Attachment .JIUJITSU IN PANAMA
Location: Calle 65A Este – between San Francisco and Via Porras, 01100 Panama City, Panama. Email: info@fight-shape.com. Phone: +507-397.2575. Mobile: +507-6054.1218. On our first day, my wife went for a run in the Parque Omar and afterwards we went looking for Fightshape. The gym is right on the corner of Avenida Porras and Calle65 which is
JUST IN TIME PROVISIONING FOR SALESFORCE PORTAL USERS 6. Generate a SAML Response- In your other bowser, go back to the Axiom SAML Identity Provider & Tester, and click the link for Generate a SAML Response.Fill in the fields as follows; SAML Version: Needs to match version selected in Salesforce SSO settings. Username OR Federated ID: This is a unique identifier for the portal user and used to locate an existing user. GETTING THE DATACOLOR SPYDER 2 TO WORK WITH MAC OS X 10.8 Go to Tools > Enable Sypder 2 Colorimeter. It will ask for the location of the Spyder PRO_2.3.5_Setup.exe from step 1. I had to run the aforementioned sudo chflags nohidden ~/Library command in terminal before it would save the profiles. This seems to be a RESURRECTING AN EPSON STYLUS PRO 9600 LARGE FORMAT PRINTERSEE MORE ONERICSANTIAGO.COM
UPLOAD AND PARSE CSV VIA VISUALFORCE Upload and Parse CSV via VisualForce. On March 25, 2011February 11, 2017 By Eric In Salesforce, Web/Tech. Update August 22nd, 2015 – Please note that this is an experiment in reading a CSV and pulling the data into Visualforce. In no way should this be part of a Production-ready solution as it DOES NOT SCALE . JIUJITSU IN BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA I've taken my sweet time in writing the follow up to my first post on researching BJJ in Argentina. In my defense, in the four months since I've been back I've been travelling like a madman -- San Francisco, Boston (twice), Minnesota, and the UK (five times) -- and finished deploying a huge Salesforce project. Compounding CONTACTS/CASES ROLLUP FOR ACCOUNTS IN SALESFORCE Contacts/Cases rollup for Accounts in Salesforce. On December 11, 2009. September 3, 2015. By Eric In Salesforce, Web/Tech. ** Update Sept 3rd 2015 – This code is not recommended as it does not scale for Contacts greater than 1,000. I will be posting an update versionof this code soon.
SETTING UP RETROPIE ON A RASPBERRY PI 3 Loser pays, Winner stays During weekends when I was a kid, I used to grab a bag of quarters, hop on the subway, and head to Times Square for the day. In those days, arcades weren't like Dave and Busters filled with families. This was the seedy Koch/Dinkins era of Time-Square. It was awesome. If I was having aDIY MONITOR HOOD
QUERY TASKS, NOTES, ATTACHMENTS BY OBJECT TYPE USING SOQL In any case, the below is an example of how I was able to correctly restructure my query. //returns a list of note records where the parent is a specific type, in this case Opportunity. SELECT Id, Parent.Id, Parent.Type FROM Note WHERE Parent.Type='Opportunity'. The Note object uses ParentId as does Attachment .JIUJITSU IN PANAMA
Location: Calle 65A Este – between San Francisco and Via Porras, 01100 Panama City, Panama. Email: info@fight-shape.com. Phone: +507-397.2575. Mobile: +507-6054.1218. On our first day, my wife went for a run in the Parque Omar and afterwards we went looking for Fightshape. The gym is right on the corner of Avenida Porras and Calle65 which is
JUST IN TIME PROVISIONING FOR SALESFORCE PORTAL USERS 6. Generate a SAML Response- In your other bowser, go back to the Axiom SAML Identity Provider & Tester, and click the link for Generate a SAML Response.Fill in the fields as follows; SAML Version: Needs to match version selected in Salesforce SSO settings. Username OR Federated ID: This is a unique identifier for the portal user and used to locate an existing user. GETTING THE DATACOLOR SPYDER 2 TO WORK WITH MAC OS X 10.8 Go to Tools > Enable Sypder 2 Colorimeter. It will ask for the location of the Spyder PRO_2.3.5_Setup.exe from step 1. I had to run the aforementioned sudo chflags nohidden ~/Library command in terminal before it would save the profiles. This seems to be a RESURRECTING AN EPSON STYLUS PRO 9600 LARGE FORMAT PRINTERSEE MORE ONERICSANTIAGO.COM
UPLOAD AND PARSE CSV VIA VISUALFORCE Upload and Parse CSV via VisualForce. On March 25, 2011February 11, 2017 By Eric In Salesforce, Web/Tech. Update August 22nd, 2015 – Please note that this is an experiment in reading a CSV and pulling the data into Visualforce. In no way should this be part of a Production-ready solution as it DOES NOT SCALE . JIUJITSU IN BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA I've taken my sweet time in writing the follow up to my first post on researching BJJ in Argentina. In my defense, in the four months since I've been back I've been travelling like a madman -- San Francisco, Boston (twice), Minnesota, and the UK (five times) -- and finished deploying a huge Salesforce project. Compounding CONTACTS/CASES ROLLUP FOR ACCOUNTS IN SALESFORCE Contacts/Cases rollup for Accounts in Salesforce. On December 11, 2009. September 3, 2015. By Eric In Salesforce, Web/Tech. ** Update Sept 3rd 2015 – This code is not recommended as it does not scale for Contacts greater than 1,000. I will be posting an update versionof this code soon.
ABOUT – ERIC SANTIAGO This is the personal blog of Eric Santiago, Salesforce Architect and general adventurer. All opinions expressed are my own. Disclaimer: We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites. JIUJITSU IN BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA Continuing on my trend of traveling and training, I'll be working in Buenos Aires for the next three weeks. So, I've started researching BJJ schools in the area. I've been to BA several times and usually I stay in either Palermo Soho or Palermo Chico. Unfortunately, from SALESFORCE TECHNICAL ARCHITECT CERTIFICATION; PART 2 Continued from Salesforce Technical Architect Certification; Part 1 Multiple Choice Exam I’ve just finished the second part of the Salesforce Technical Architect Certification, the live Review Board, and I must say it’s a bit draining.Imagine something like the picture on the left with the questions coming fast and hard. UPLOAD AND PARSE CSV VIA VISUALFORCE Upload and Parse CSV via VisualForce. On March 25, 2011February 11, 2017 By Eric In Salesforce, Web/Tech. Update August 22nd, 2015 – Please note that this is an experiment in reading a CSV and pulling the data into Visualforce. In no way should this be part of a Production-ready solution as it DOES NOT SCALE . JIUJITSU IN BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA I've taken my sweet time in writing the follow up to my first post on researching BJJ in Argentina. In my defense, in the four months since I've been back I've been travelling like a madman -- San Francisco, Boston (twice), Minnesota, and the UK (five times) -- and finished deploying a huge Salesforce project. Compounding SALESFORCE SECURITY HEALTH CHECK Back in Spring ’16, Salesforce added a tool for assessing an org’s security – Setup > Security Controls > Health Check. I hadn’t had a reason to use it until recently. DIY – MAKE YOUR OWN IPAD 2 SMART COVER – ERIC SANTIAGO I just got a brand new Ipad 2 from my job. While it’s not something that I would have gone out and bought on my own, I have to admit I really like it and its become a very useful to scan incoming emails, IM’s, and Chatter posts while I’m more focused on coding on my Macbook. Having a second ‘screen’ has really helped reduce the interuptions those messages can cause. JUNE 2007 – ERIC SANTIAGO 1 post published by Eric during June 2007. I finally got so sick of just fighting inanimate objects, that I joined a new gym.For seemingly forever, I’ve been debating joining Five Parks Fitness which is renowned for its Muay Thai instructors and students (many of which compete). Unfortunately, they are way downtown at Canal and Broadway (Manhattan) which is inconvenient for someone workingDECEMBER 2007
Maybe with all its money, Google has turned its nose on NYC subway travel and opted to take a car service instead. When Google Maps first came out a big request among New Yorkers was the lack of markers forsubway stops.
SALESFORCE TECHNICAL ARCHITECT CERTIFICATION; PART 1 Yesterday, I passed part two of the three-part Technical Architect Certification for Salesforce.com. (Step one being the self-evaluation; which really doesn't count given that its free and you can take it repeatedly until you pass.) The third and final step will be a four hour session presenting two cases in front of a live review board of technical architects. ABOUT – ERIC SANTIAGO This is the personal blog of Eric Santiago, Salesforce Architect and general adventurer. All opinions expressed are my own. Disclaimer: We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites. SETTING UP RETROPIE ON A RASPBERRY PI 3 Loser pays, Winner stays During weekends when I was a kid, I used to grab a bag of quarters, hop on the subway, and head to Times Square for the day. In those days, arcades weren't like Dave and Busters filled with families. This was the seedy Koch/Dinkins era of Time-Square. It was awesome. If I was having a QUERY TASKS, NOTES, ATTACHMENTS BY OBJECT TYPE USING SOQL In any case, the below is an example of how I was able to correctly restructure my query. //returns a list of note records where the parent is a specific type, in this case Opportunity. SELECT Id, Parent.Id, Parent.Type FROM Note WHERE Parent.Type='Opportunity'. The Note object uses ParentId as does Attachment .DIY MONITOR HOOD
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Location: Calle 65A Este – between San Francisco and Via Porras, 01100 Panama City, Panama. Email: info@fight-shape.com. Phone: +507-397.2575. Mobile: +507-6054.1218. On our first day, my wife went for a run in the Parque Omar and afterwards we went looking for Fightshape. The gym is right on the corner of Avenida Porras and Calle65 which is
JUST IN TIME PROVISIONING FOR SALESFORCE PORTAL USERS 6. Generate a SAML Response- In your other bowser, go back to the Axiom SAML Identity Provider & Tester, and click the link for Generate a SAML Response.Fill in the fields as follows; SAML Version: Needs to match version selected in Salesforce SSO settings. Username OR Federated ID: This is a unique identifier for the portal user and used to locate an existing user. GETTING THE DATACOLOR SPYDER 2 TO WORK WITH MAC OS X 10.8 Go to Tools > Enable Sypder 2 Colorimeter. It will ask for the location of the Spyder PRO_2.3.5_Setup.exe from step 1. I had to run the aforementioned sudo chflags nohidden ~/Library command in terminal before it would save the profiles. This seems to be a RESURRECTING AN EPSON STYLUS PRO 9600 LARGE FORMAT PRINTERSEE MORE ONERICSANTIAGO.COM
UPLOAD AND PARSE CSV VIA VISUALFORCE Upload and Parse CSV via VisualForce. On March 25, 2011February 11, 2017 By Eric In Salesforce, Web/Tech. Update August 22nd, 2015 – Please note that this is an experiment in reading a CSV and pulling the data into Visualforce. In no way should this be part of a Production-ready solution as it DOES NOT SCALE . CONTACTS/CASES ROLLUP FOR ACCOUNTS IN SALESFORCE Contacts/Cases rollup for Accounts in Salesforce. On December 11, 2009. September 3, 2015. By Eric In Salesforce, Web/Tech. ** Update Sept 3rd 2015 – This code is not recommended as it does not scale for Contacts greater than 1,000. I will be posting an update versionof this code soon.
ABOUT – ERIC SANTIAGO This is the personal blog of Eric Santiago, Salesforce Architect and general adventurer. All opinions expressed are my own. Disclaimer: We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites. SETTING UP RETROPIE ON A RASPBERRY PI 3 Loser pays, Winner stays During weekends when I was a kid, I used to grab a bag of quarters, hop on the subway, and head to Times Square for the day. In those days, arcades weren't like Dave and Busters filled with families. This was the seedy Koch/Dinkins era of Time-Square. It was awesome. If I was having a QUERY TASKS, NOTES, ATTACHMENTS BY OBJECT TYPE USING SOQL In any case, the below is an example of how I was able to correctly restructure my query. //returns a list of note records where the parent is a specific type, in this case Opportunity. SELECT Id, Parent.Id, Parent.Type FROM Note WHERE Parent.Type='Opportunity'. The Note object uses ParentId as does Attachment .DIY MONITOR HOOD
JIUJITSU IN PANAMA
Location: Calle 65A Este – between San Francisco and Via Porras, 01100 Panama City, Panama. Email: info@fight-shape.com. Phone: +507-397.2575. Mobile: +507-6054.1218. On our first day, my wife went for a run in the Parque Omar and afterwards we went looking for Fightshape. The gym is right on the corner of Avenida Porras and Calle65 which is
JUST IN TIME PROVISIONING FOR SALESFORCE PORTAL USERS 6. Generate a SAML Response- In your other bowser, go back to the Axiom SAML Identity Provider & Tester, and click the link for Generate a SAML Response.Fill in the fields as follows; SAML Version: Needs to match version selected in Salesforce SSO settings. Username OR Federated ID: This is a unique identifier for the portal user and used to locate an existing user. GETTING THE DATACOLOR SPYDER 2 TO WORK WITH MAC OS X 10.8 Go to Tools > Enable Sypder 2 Colorimeter. It will ask for the location of the Spyder PRO_2.3.5_Setup.exe from step 1. I had to run the aforementioned sudo chflags nohidden ~/Library command in terminal before it would save the profiles. This seems to be a RESURRECTING AN EPSON STYLUS PRO 9600 LARGE FORMAT PRINTERSEE MORE ONERICSANTIAGO.COM
UPLOAD AND PARSE CSV VIA VISUALFORCE Upload and Parse CSV via VisualForce. On March 25, 2011February 11, 2017 By Eric In Salesforce, Web/Tech. Update August 22nd, 2015 – Please note that this is an experiment in reading a CSV and pulling the data into Visualforce. In no way should this be part of a Production-ready solution as it DOES NOT SCALE . CONTACTS/CASES ROLLUP FOR ACCOUNTS IN SALESFORCE Contacts/Cases rollup for Accounts in Salesforce. On December 11, 2009. September 3, 2015. By Eric In Salesforce, Web/Tech. ** Update Sept 3rd 2015 – This code is not recommended as it does not scale for Contacts greater than 1,000. I will be posting an update versionof this code soon.
ABOUT – ERIC SANTIAGO This is the personal blog of Eric Santiago, Salesforce Architect and general adventurer. All opinions expressed are my own. Disclaimer: We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites. JIUJITSU IN BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA Continuing on my trend of traveling and training, I'll be working in Buenos Aires for the next three weeks. So, I've started researching BJJ schools in the area. I've been to BA several times and usually I stay in either Palermo Soho or Palermo Chico. Unfortunately, from SALESFORCE TECHNICAL ARCHITECT CERTIFICATION; PART 2 Continued from Salesforce Technical Architect Certification; Part 1 Multiple Choice Exam I’ve just finished the second part of the Salesforce Technical Architect Certification, the live Review Board, and I must say it’s a bit draining.Imagine something like the picture on the left with the questions coming fast and hard. UPLOAD AND PARSE CSV VIA VISUALFORCE Upload and Parse CSV via VisualForce. On March 25, 2011February 11, 2017 By Eric In Salesforce, Web/Tech. Update August 22nd, 2015 – Please note that this is an experiment in reading a CSV and pulling the data into Visualforce. In no way should this be part of a Production-ready solution as it DOES NOT SCALE . APEX – ERIC SANTIAGO Posts about Apex written by Eric. DreamForce 2012 is only a few weeks away. You can still register or sign up for a free pass that gets you access to only the keynote addresses and campground. Free is nice, but you don't get access to all the sessions and trainings and more importantly the Red Hot Chili Peppers concert.SEPTEMBER 2007
1 post published by Eric during September 2007. Thankfully, I survived my four days at Salesforce.com’s annual conference; Dreamforce 2007, all the while nursing a tremendous cold.My apologies to everyone andall I infected.
JIUJITSU IN BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA I've taken my sweet time in writing the follow up to my first post on researching BJJ in Argentina. In my defense, in the four months since I've been back I've been travelling like a madman -- San Francisco, Boston (twice), Minnesota, and the UK (five times) -- and finished deploying a huge Salesforce project. Compounding SALESFORCE SECURITY HEALTH CHECK Back in Spring ’16, Salesforce added a tool for assessing an org’s security – Setup > Security Controls > Health Check. I hadn’t had a reason to use it until recently.NOVEMBER 2006
1 post published by Eric during November 2006. Now here’s an interesting post outside of the normal tech sphere. The other day Iwent to the gym.
JUNE 2007 – ERIC SANTIAGO 1 post published by Eric during June 2007. I finally got so sick of just fighting inanimate objects, that I joined a new gym.For seemingly forever, I’ve been debating joining Five Parks Fitness which is renowned for its Muay Thai instructors and students (many of which compete). Unfortunately, they are way downtown at Canal and Broadway (Manhattan) which is inconvenient for someone working ABOUT – ERIC SANTIAGO This is the personal blog of Eric Santiago, Salesforce Architect and general adventurer. All opinions expressed are my own. Disclaimer: We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites. SETTING UP RETROPIE ON A RASPBERRY PI 3 Loser pays, Winner stays During weekends when I was a kid, I used to grab a bag of quarters, hop on the subway, and head to Times Square for the day. In those days, arcades weren't like Dave and Busters filled with families. This was the seedy Koch/Dinkins era of Time-Square. It was awesome. If I was having a QUERY TASKS, NOTES, ATTACHMENTS BY OBJECT TYPE USING SOQL In any case, the below is an example of how I was able to correctly restructure my query. //returns a list of note records where the parent is a specific type, in this case Opportunity. SELECT Id, Parent.Id, Parent.Type FROM Note WHERE Parent.Type='Opportunity'. The Note object uses ParentId as does Attachment .DIY MONITOR HOOD
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Location: Calle 65A Este – between San Francisco and Via Porras, 01100 Panama City, Panama. Email: info@fight-shape.com. Phone: +507-397.2575. Mobile: +507-6054.1218. On our first day, my wife went for a run in the Parque Omar and afterwards we went looking for Fightshape. The gym is right on the corner of Avenida Porras and Calle65 which is
JUST IN TIME PROVISIONING FOR SALESFORCE PORTAL USERS 6. Generate a SAML Response- In your other bowser, go back to the Axiom SAML Identity Provider & Tester, and click the link for Generate a SAML Response.Fill in the fields as follows; SAML Version: Needs to match version selected in Salesforce SSO settings. Username OR Federated ID: This is a unique identifier for the portal user and used to locate an existing user. GETTING THE DATACOLOR SPYDER 2 TO WORK WITH MAC OS X 10.8 Go to Tools > Enable Sypder 2 Colorimeter. It will ask for the location of the Spyder PRO_2.3.5_Setup.exe from step 1. I had to run the aforementioned sudo chflags nohidden ~/Library command in terminal before it would save the profiles. This seems to be a RESURRECTING AN EPSON STYLUS PRO 9600 LARGE FORMAT PRINTERSEE MORE ONERICSANTIAGO.COM
UPLOAD AND PARSE CSV VIA VISUALFORCE Upload and Parse CSV via VisualForce. On March 25, 2011February 11, 2017 By Eric In Salesforce, Web/Tech. Update August 22nd, 2015 – Please note that this is an experiment in reading a CSV and pulling the data into Visualforce. In no way should this be part of a Production-ready solution as it DOES NOT SCALE . CONTACTS/CASES ROLLUP FOR ACCOUNTS IN SALESFORCE Contacts/Cases rollup for Accounts in Salesforce. On December 11, 2009. September 3, 2015. By Eric In Salesforce, Web/Tech. ** Update Sept 3rd 2015 – This code is not recommended as it does not scale for Contacts greater than 1,000. I will be posting an update versionof this code soon.
ABOUT – ERIC SANTIAGO This is the personal blog of Eric Santiago, Salesforce Architect and general adventurer. All opinions expressed are my own. Disclaimer: We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites. SETTING UP RETROPIE ON A RASPBERRY PI 3 Loser pays, Winner stays During weekends when I was a kid, I used to grab a bag of quarters, hop on the subway, and head to Times Square for the day. In those days, arcades weren't like Dave and Busters filled with families. This was the seedy Koch/Dinkins era of Time-Square. It was awesome. If I was having a QUERY TASKS, NOTES, ATTACHMENTS BY OBJECT TYPE USING SOQL In any case, the below is an example of how I was able to correctly restructure my query. //returns a list of note records where the parent is a specific type, in this case Opportunity. SELECT Id, Parent.Id, Parent.Type FROM Note WHERE Parent.Type='Opportunity'. The Note object uses ParentId as does Attachment .DIY MONITOR HOOD
JIUJITSU IN PANAMA
Location: Calle 65A Este – between San Francisco and Via Porras, 01100 Panama City, Panama. Email: info@fight-shape.com. Phone: +507-397.2575. Mobile: +507-6054.1218. On our first day, my wife went for a run in the Parque Omar and afterwards we went looking for Fightshape. The gym is right on the corner of Avenida Porras and Calle65 which is
JUST IN TIME PROVISIONING FOR SALESFORCE PORTAL USERS 6. Generate a SAML Response- In your other bowser, go back to the Axiom SAML Identity Provider & Tester, and click the link for Generate a SAML Response.Fill in the fields as follows; SAML Version: Needs to match version selected in Salesforce SSO settings. Username OR Federated ID: This is a unique identifier for the portal user and used to locate an existing user. GETTING THE DATACOLOR SPYDER 2 TO WORK WITH MAC OS X 10.8 Go to Tools > Enable Sypder 2 Colorimeter. It will ask for the location of the Spyder PRO_2.3.5_Setup.exe from step 1. I had to run the aforementioned sudo chflags nohidden ~/Library command in terminal before it would save the profiles. This seems to be a RESURRECTING AN EPSON STYLUS PRO 9600 LARGE FORMAT PRINTERSEE MORE ONERICSANTIAGO.COM
UPLOAD AND PARSE CSV VIA VISUALFORCE Upload and Parse CSV via VisualForce. On March 25, 2011February 11, 2017 By Eric In Salesforce, Web/Tech. Update August 22nd, 2015 – Please note that this is an experiment in reading a CSV and pulling the data into Visualforce. In no way should this be part of a Production-ready solution as it DOES NOT SCALE . CONTACTS/CASES ROLLUP FOR ACCOUNTS IN SALESFORCE Contacts/Cases rollup for Accounts in Salesforce. On December 11, 2009. September 3, 2015. By Eric In Salesforce, Web/Tech. ** Update Sept 3rd 2015 – This code is not recommended as it does not scale for Contacts greater than 1,000. I will be posting an update versionof this code soon.
ABOUT – ERIC SANTIAGO This is the personal blog of Eric Santiago, Salesforce Architect and general adventurer. All opinions expressed are my own. Disclaimer: We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites. JIUJITSU IN BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA Continuing on my trend of traveling and training, I'll be working in Buenos Aires for the next three weeks. So, I've started researching BJJ schools in the area. I've been to BA several times and usually I stay in either Palermo Soho or Palermo Chico. Unfortunately, from SALESFORCE TECHNICAL ARCHITECT CERTIFICATION; PART 2 Continued from Salesforce Technical Architect Certification; Part 1 Multiple Choice Exam I’ve just finished the second part of the Salesforce Technical Architect Certification, the live Review Board, and I must say it’s a bit draining.Imagine something like the picture on the left with the questions coming fast and hard. UPLOAD AND PARSE CSV VIA VISUALFORCE Upload and Parse CSV via VisualForce. On March 25, 2011February 11, 2017 By Eric In Salesforce, Web/Tech. Update August 22nd, 2015 – Please note that this is an experiment in reading a CSV and pulling the data into Visualforce. In no way should this be part of a Production-ready solution as it DOES NOT SCALE . APEX – ERIC SANTIAGO Posts about Apex written by Eric. DreamForce 2012 is only a few weeks away. You can still register or sign up for a free pass that gets you access to only the keynote addresses and campground. Free is nice, but you don't get access to all the sessions and trainings and more importantly the Red Hot Chili Peppers concert.SEPTEMBER 2007
1 post published by Eric during September 2007. Thankfully, I survived my four days at Salesforce.com’s annual conference; Dreamforce 2007, all the while nursing a tremendous cold.My apologies to everyone andall I infected.
JIUJITSU IN BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA I've taken my sweet time in writing the follow up to my first post on researching BJJ in Argentina. In my defense, in the four months since I've been back I've been travelling like a madman -- San Francisco, Boston (twice), Minnesota, and the UK (five times) -- and finished deploying a huge Salesforce project. Compounding SALESFORCE SECURITY HEALTH CHECK Back in Spring ’16, Salesforce added a tool for assessing an org’s security – Setup > Security Controls > Health Check. I hadn’t had a reason to use it until recently.NOVEMBER 2006
1 post published by Eric during November 2006. Now here’s an interesting post outside of the normal tech sphere. The other day Iwent to the gym.
JUNE 2007 – ERIC SANTIAGO 1 post published by Eric during June 2007. I finally got so sick of just fighting inanimate objects, that I joined a new gym.For seemingly forever, I’ve been debating joining Five Parks Fitness which is renowned for its Muay Thai instructors and students (many of which compete). Unfortunately, they are way downtown at Canal and Broadway (Manhattan) which is inconvenient for someone working ABOUT – ERIC SANTIAGO This is the personal blog of Eric Santiago, Salesforce Architect and general adventurer. All opinions expressed are my own. Disclaimer: We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites. SETTING UP RETROPIE ON A RASPBERRY PI 3 Loser pays, Winner stays During weekends when I was a kid, I used to grab a bag of quarters, hop on the subway, and head to Times Square for the day. In those days, arcades weren't like Dave and Busters filled with families. This was the seedy Koch/Dinkins era of Time-Square. It was awesome. If I was having aDIY MONITOR HOOD
QUERY TASKS, NOTES, ATTACHMENTS BY OBJECT TYPE USING SOQL If you've worked with Salesforce for a while, you've probably come across the gotchas of some of the "standard" sObjects like Task, Event, Note, Attachment and some others. What these all have in common is that rather than having a standard lookup to a single object type, their parent can be any object type. For example, UPLOAD AND PARSE CSV VIA VISUALFORCE Update August 22nd, 2015 - Please note that this is an experiment in reading a CSV and pulling the data into Visualforce. In no way should this be part of a Production-ready solution as it DOES NOT SCALE. You will hit limits as the number of rows in the CSV increases. As a JUST IN TIME PROVISIONING FOR SALESFORCE PORTAL USERS 6. Generate a SAML Response- In your other bowser, go back to the Axiom SAML Identity Provider & Tester, and click the link for Generate a SAML Response.Fill in the fields as follows; SAML Version: Needs to match version selected in Salesforce SSO settings. Username OR Federated ID: This is a unique identifier for the portal user and used to locate an existing user. CONTACTS/CASES ROLLUP FOR ACCOUNTS IN SALESFORCE ** Update Sept 3rd 2015 - This code is not recommended as it does not scale for Contacts greater than 1,000. I will be posting an update version of this code soon. ** If you're familiar with using roll-up/summary fields in Salesforce, you've probably come up JUNE 2007 – ERIC SANTIAGO 1 post published by Eric during June 2007. I finally got so sick of just fighting inanimate objects, that I joined a new gym.For seemingly forever, I’ve been debating joining Five Parks Fitness which is renowned for its Muay Thai instructors and students (many of which compete). Unfortunately, they are way downtown at Canal and Broadway (Manhattan) which is inconvenient for someone workingSEPTEMBER 2007
1 post published by Eric during September 2007. Thankfully, I survived my four days at Salesforce.com’s annual conference; Dreamforce 2007, all the while nursing a tremendous cold.My apologies to everyone andall I infected.
MARCH 2007 – ERIC SANTIAGO 1 post published by Eric during March 2007. I’ve been investigating the possibilty of using Salesforce.com as a CRM backend to a Drupal CMS website. Drupal is one of the more mature, community-centric platforms available and has a strong ecosystem of developers. ABOUT – ERIC SANTIAGO This is the personal blog of Eric Santiago, Salesforce Architect and general adventurer. All opinions expressed are my own. Disclaimer: We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites. SETTING UP RETROPIE ON A RASPBERRY PI 3 Loser pays, Winner stays During weekends when I was a kid, I used to grab a bag of quarters, hop on the subway, and head to Times Square for the day. In those days, arcades weren't like Dave and Busters filled with families. This was the seedy Koch/Dinkins era of Time-Square. It was awesome. If I was having aDIY MONITOR HOOD
QUERY TASKS, NOTES, ATTACHMENTS BY OBJECT TYPE USING SOQL If you've worked with Salesforce for a while, you've probably come across the gotchas of some of the "standard" sObjects like Task, Event, Note, Attachment and some others. What these all have in common is that rather than having a standard lookup to a single object type, their parent can be any object type. For example, UPLOAD AND PARSE CSV VIA VISUALFORCE Update August 22nd, 2015 - Please note that this is an experiment in reading a CSV and pulling the data into Visualforce. In no way should this be part of a Production-ready solution as it DOES NOT SCALE. You will hit limits as the number of rows in the CSV increases. As a JUST IN TIME PROVISIONING FOR SALESFORCE PORTAL USERS 6. Generate a SAML Response- In your other bowser, go back to the Axiom SAML Identity Provider & Tester, and click the link for Generate a SAML Response.Fill in the fields as follows; SAML Version: Needs to match version selected in Salesforce SSO settings. Username OR Federated ID: This is a unique identifier for the portal user and used to locate an existing user. CONTACTS/CASES ROLLUP FOR ACCOUNTS IN SALESFORCE ** Update Sept 3rd 2015 - This code is not recommended as it does not scale for Contacts greater than 1,000. I will be posting an update version of this code soon. ** If you're familiar with using roll-up/summary fields in Salesforce, you've probably come up JUNE 2007 – ERIC SANTIAGO 1 post published by Eric during June 2007. I finally got so sick of just fighting inanimate objects, that I joined a new gym.For seemingly forever, I’ve been debating joining Five Parks Fitness which is renowned for its Muay Thai instructors and students (many of which compete). Unfortunately, they are way downtown at Canal and Broadway (Manhattan) which is inconvenient for someone workingSEPTEMBER 2007
1 post published by Eric during September 2007. Thankfully, I survived my four days at Salesforce.com’s annual conference; Dreamforce 2007, all the while nursing a tremendous cold.My apologies to everyone andall I infected.
MARCH 2007 – ERIC SANTIAGO 1 post published by Eric during March 2007. I’ve been investigating the possibilty of using Salesforce.com as a CRM backend to a Drupal CMS website. Drupal is one of the more mature, community-centric platforms available and has a strong ecosystem of developers. ABOUT – ERIC SANTIAGO This is the personal blog of Eric Santiago, Salesforce Architect and general adventurer. All opinions expressed are my own. Disclaimer: We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites. UPLOAD AND PARSE CSV VIA VISUALFORCE Update August 22nd, 2015 - Please note that this is an experiment in reading a CSV and pulling the data into Visualforce. In no way should this be part of a Production-ready solution as it DOES NOT SCALE. You will hit limits as the number of rows in the CSV increases. As a JIUJITSU – ERIC SANTIAGO Posts about JiuJitsu written by Eric. I’ve taken my sweet time in writing the follow up to my first post on researching BJJ in Argentina.. In my defense, in the four months since I’ve been back I’ve been travelling like a madman — San Francisco, Boston (twice), Minnesota, and the UK (five times) — and finished deploying a huge Salesforce project. PORTAL – ERIC SANTIAGO 6. Generate a SAML Response- In your other bowser, go back to the Axiom SAML Identity Provider & Tester, and click the link for Generate a SAML Response.Fill in the fields as follows; SAML Version: Needs to match version selected in Salesforce SSO settings. Username OR Federated ID: This is a unique identifier for the portal user and used to locate an existing user.JIUJITSU IN PANAMA
While I write this, I’m waiting for a flight to Boston (might try Fenix Fight Club, since I’ll be stuck in Burlington, Mass without a rental car) and planning a trip to Argentina in a few weeks (just starting my research there).So, before I’m off on these next adventures, I wanted to get down my wonderful experience in Panama for anyone else who may want to follow in my footsteps. MAC – ERIC SANTIAGO Posts about Mac written by Eric. Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use. BRAZIL – ERIC SANTIAGO Follow Eric Santiago on WordPress.com Recent Posts. Music by RepRap; Setting up Retropie on a Raspberry Pi 3; Salesforce Security Health Check; DIY Monitor Hood GETTING THE DATACOLOR SPYDER 2 TO WORK WITH MAC OS X 10.8 Given my recent foray into large format printing, I needed to dig into the old junk drawer and excavate my Spyder2 Color Calibrator to profile my monitor. It's been a few years since I last used it, so off to DataColor's website to download the latest and greatest software. But lo and behold, as has SALESFORCE TECHNICAL ARCHITECT CERTIFICATION; PART 2 Continued from Salesforce Technical Architect Certification; Part 1 Multiple Choice Exam I’ve just finished the second part of the Salesforce Technical Architect Certification, the live Review Board, and I must say it’s a bit draining.Imagine something like the picture on the left with the questions coming fast and hard. APEX – ERIC SANTIAGO Posts about Apex written by Eric. DreamForce 2012 is only a few weeks away. You can still register or sign up for a free pass that gets you access to only the keynote addresses and campground. Free is nice, but you don't get access to all the sessions and trainings and more importantly the Red Hot Chili Peppers concert.Skip to content
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On March 14, 2018
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Seems, I’ve been a bit lax in keeping my blog up to date on my adventures of the last year. And what a year it’s been. Much of my recent tinkering has revolved around a deep dive into 3D printing. Searching for a cheap 3D printer a few months back, I stumbled upon a lot of 13 Makerbot Replicator+printers on Ebay.
They were in various states of disrepair and I thought I’d get one or two pieced together while learning about their ins and outs in the process. As luck would have it, I was able to get all but one back into perfect working condition.Ultibots D300VS+
While there were some things I really liked about the Makerbots, the closed source hardware and proprietary software really limited any upgrades and experimentation. So back on Ebay they went. With the profit burning a hole in my pocket I honed in on my next choice; the Ultibots D300VS Plus. First off,
Deltabots just look cooler; much more like a robot than a kitchen appliance. Second, the kit was a proper challenge — wiring, soldering, crimping — involving a measure of skill and frustration, but with that, a sense of pride on completion. It’s definitely not a kit for the plug andplay novice.
I’m in the honeymoon phase right now. With the first test print out of the way, it’s on to calibration, tuning, and customization. A few of the things I miss about my Makerbots were the remote monitoring (phone app and camera) and end-of-filament sensor.
These were very practical features that I used all the time. Oddly enough, I also found myself missing the little chimes it played at the start and end of prints. The absence of which was made more evident by how silent (and fast) the Ultibots is. Sitting in the next room, I wasn’t sure when a print had finished. While the hardware upgrades might take some time, I thought to tackle the sound via software. The D300VS+ runs on the Duet Wifi Controller and uses the open source RepRap firmware. That means you can use gcode command M300to play tones
(example _M300 S300 P1000_). However, a simple tone didn’t really do it for me. The Makerbot used to play a satisfying little _‘TaDa’_ song using a custom gcode (M72) which
isn’t supported by my model. I found a nice post on 3D systems that describes how to transform simple tones into complex tunes and a bunch of samples. This online tool can play these samples before loading the gcode into your printers settings file. After sorting through a bunch of junk from 2-pac to ZZtop, I finally settled on the truncated version of the Superman theme below.> ;Superman
> M300 S1174 P150 > M300 S1174 P150 > M300 S1174 P150 > M300 S1567 P225> M300 S0 P75
> M300 S1567 P150 > M300 S2349 P600> M300 S0 P150
> M300 S2349 P150 > M300 S2637 P150 > M300 S2349 P150 > M300 S2093 P150 > M300 S2349 P1200> M300 S0 P150
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SETTING UP RETROPIE ON A RASPBERRY PI 3 On March 5, 2017July 17, 2018By Eric In Web/Tech
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LOSER PAYS, WINNER STAYS During weekends when I was a kid, I used to grab a bag of quarters, hop on the subway, and head to Times Square for the day. In those days, arcades weren’t like Dave and Busters filled with families. This was the seedy Koch/Dinkins era of Time-Square. It was awesome. If I was having a good day, I could spend a few hours on Galaga or Pac-Man until my quarters ran out. I always spent my last dollar on Dragon’s Lair; I was such a sucker for those animated laser-disc graphics , but I never once made it past the first cut scene.Playing
Pac-Man at an arcade in Times Square, 1982. (Yvonne Hemsey/GettyImages)
From timeline.com
After I got a Nintendo (NES) for Christmas, my energy went into marathon sessions of Mario Bros. and Double Dragon in the comfort ofour cold basement.
Maybe it’s natural then that I associate those old video games with struggle, danger, and even little a whiff of the forbidden. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been deciphering MAME versions, hacking at roms, and downloading files from legally-questionable sites, but when that Double Dragon theme starting playing I was all smiles.GETTING STARTED
First off you need the minimum hardware; Raspberry Pi 3 Model B, power adapter ,
MicroSD (at least 32GB), HDMI cable, and a controller . I didn’t like most of the RetroPie kits that I saw because most were made up of cheap components (microSD, power, controllers etc.). So, I sourced everything individually.The
Raspberry Pi Model 3 B is 1/8th the size of my NES. You’re going to be writing and reading a lot from the MicroSD so don’t skimp. The Samsung 32GB MicroSD was recommended by a few forums. I may even go back and get a 64GB. Atari games are only a few kilobytes but Playstation ISO’s really add up.CONTROLLERS
A lot of people recommended the Buffalo Classic USB Gamepad as a low cost, yet quality retro controller. I didn’t get one for two reasons; I heard they take weeks to ship and I also wanted a all-around generalist controller more suited to all the platforms the Retropie can emulate. So, I bought the Logitech F310 for only a few dollars more.Buffalo Classic
Logitech F310
The Logitech was a great choice. Once I got through the initial configuration upon first booting the Retropie, I didn’t have to do anything else to get it to work on all the games/platforms. Though according to the RetroPie wiki, the
RetroPad ABXY pattern is the opposite of the ABXY pattern on the controller (A=B). When I set mine up, I followed A=A, so maybe I’ll go back and fix that. Really it doesn’t matter because I just hit buttons till I figure out what does what in each game anyway. That lack of instruction feels more like retro gaming in my opinion. _EDIT: I liked the Logitech so much I ended up also getting its wireless brother the F710 . Which was just aseasy to setup._
Logitech F710
OVERCLOCKING
You’ll definitely want to overclock the CPUto run
any N64 and Playstation games. Even some of the newer FBA/MAME arcade games probably benefit. Once you overclock, you have to address cooling. I bought heatsinks and a stuck them on the processors. I also got a fan-cooled case.
Heatsinks
are a must have for long gaming sessions.A
metal case is great protection against the inevitable “rage quit”POWER IS IMPORTANT
Get a good power adapter for your PI . Ideally it should output 5+ volts and 2+ amps. Initially, I was running the PI off a 5V 600mA phone charger that I had laying around. The Pi turned on and everything seemingly worked, but only later did I realize that the Lightning Bolt icon I kept seeing flash in the corner wasn’t normal. My pi wasn’t getting enough juice. This is especially critical if you overclock your Pi. Check the specs on your power adapter. This one does 5V 2.5A . Don’t get a cable that has a switch in it. The worse way to shut down the PI is by cutting the power. That’s a sure way to corrupt the SD card. Use the shutdown command from the UI or terminal instead. (I’m actually researching a way to add a button to the case and scripting a shutdown command.)LOADING RETROPIE
This part is straight forward. Follow the instructions on Retropie’ssite
for
your OS. Essentially you download and unzip Retropie, and use an app(like Pi Baker
for
Macs) to load the image file onto the SD card. Then all you do is put the MicroSD into the Pi, connect the HDMI cable, controller, and power and you’re done. Once it boots up, you’ll be prompted with to configure your controller. Press the buttons it asks for and you’re done. For now. GETTING GAMES TO WORK In 1988, my dad brought home a new IBM PS2and
immediately my brother and I went to work setting it up. Finally, we pushed the power button and the screen lit up with a cursor that blinked. And blinked. And blinked. It slowly dawned on us that the computer wasn’t going to do anything. It sat there just prompting us, beckoning us, practically daring us to take the next step. The RetroPie reminded me of that. The RetroPie doesn’t come loaded with any games. Nothing. Even thefirst screen
that shows ’13 games’ under the Retropie logo is misleading. It means 13 options are available. There are a few ways to transfer ROMs (games) to your Pi; USB, FTP, or SMB. Personally I find the USB option awkward and complicated. Also, I didn’t have a thumb drive large enough. I didn’t feel like installing an SFTP app, so I just usedSMB shares.
Setting up WIFI on the Retropieallows for
hands free (although slower) transfers. The only caveat is that you will need a usb keyboard to enter the password. If you have an Ethernet cable and can connect the Pi directly to your router/hub, this is a bit faster and doesn’t require a keboard. From my Mac, I opened Finder, selected _Go >> Connect to Server.._ and entered _smb://retropie_ as the server address. Login as Guest. Select _roms_ as the directory and now you can drag and drop files as you would with any other folder. Legally, you should only have roms for games you own. Google roms related to the platform you want (ex Atari 2600) for examples. Some search results might mention ‘bundles’ or ‘reference sets’ and will save you downloading individual examples. Some examples may list the origin county in the filename – United States, Europe, Japan – or some combination of such. Examples that have are usually the best working option. Use the RetroPie supported systems wikias
a guide. It will tell you what directory to put roms in and what file types are expected by that platform. For example, Sega Genesis roms go in /roms/megadrive and will have an extension of smd, bin, md, iso, or zip. Copy the file to the proper directory, reboot the Pi (from the UI quit menu), and then try loading the game. It’s that easy.Sometimes.
TROUBLESHOOTING GAMES I spent a lot of time in the Reddit RetroPie sub and other sites trying to figure out how to get MAME and FBA games working. There are lots of posts and videos on this topic. Despite that, it’s surprisingly tricky to figure out. It’s even a bit hit or miss when you do. First follow these preparations for the specific platforms. Then we’ll cover troubleshooting individual games. FBA, ARCADE, AND NEOGEO Save yourself a ton of frustration and go find a file called _NeoGeo.zip_. Ideally, it should contain;* 000-lo.lo
* asia-s3.rom
* japan-j3.bin
* sfix.sfix
* sm1.sm1
* sp-1v1_3db8c.bin
* sp-45.sp1
* sp-e.sp1
* sp-j2.sp1
* sp-s.sp1
* sp-s2.sp1
* sp-u2.sp1
* sp1.jipan.1024
* uni-bios_1_0.rom
* uni-bios_1_1.rom
* uni-bios_1_2.rom
* uni-bios_1_2o.rom
* uni-bios_1_3.rom
* uni-bios_2_0.rom
* uni-bios_2_1.rom
* uni-bios_2_2.rom
* uni-bios_2_3.rom
* uni-bios_2_3o.rom
* uni-bios_3_0.rom
* uni-bios_3_1.rom
* vs-bios.rom
* uni-bios_3_2.rom
Copy that zip into each of the three corresponding roms folders. Then go toRetropie > Retropie Setup_ _ optional
packages and install the FBA2012 emulator.MAME
Go back to Retropie > Retropie Setup_ _ and
install the optional package mame2010.PLAYSTATION (PSX)
You need to google and download the bios files for the Playstation – SCPH1001.bin (USA), SCPH1000.bin (Japan), and SCPH7003.bin (Europe) – and drop these in the directory /RetroPie/bios/. GENERAL TROUBLESHOOTING _File Type_ – Assuming you’ve dropped the correct Rom file in the correct directory, your game should just load when you start it from the UI. If it doesn’t load or you get glitches during gameplay, the first thing to check is the file type. Some platforms like the Atari7800 will take .zip files. Others need you to unzip the file contents. Check the RetroPie wiki for the expected file type. That will let you know if you need to unpackage the downloaded file before you transfer it over to therasperry pi.
_Try different Emulators_ – Next, you can try a different emulator for that specific game. If a game doesn’t load and goes back to the selection ui, you have other options. As it loads, you’ll see a message to hit any button for options. Do that, and you’ll see thefollowing menu.
In this example, the default emulator for Sega Genesis roms put in the _/roms/megadrive/_ directory will use the lr-picodrive emulator. If for some reason, that emulator didn’t work you could select option 2 and try setting lr-genesis-plus-gxor DGen
for that specific game to see if theywork better.
This works really well for troubleshooting MAME, Final Burn Alpha (FBAlpha), and N64 games. The retropie wiki provides a chart of whichMAME versions
work with what emulators, but it’s really hard to know what version of a rom you might have. Rotating through the possible emulators is a trial and error method that should work. Note that your emulator choices are limited by the directory you place the rom in. The Arcade folder allows you to select all of the MAME and FBalpha related emulators, whereas the MAME and FBAlpha directories only offer those emulators specific to that directory. For other troubleshooting, try the Retropie offical FAQand Reddit
Retropie FAQ .
IT’S ON LIKE DONKEY KONG I hope you enjoy recapturing your youth as much as I have. SALESFORCE SECURITY HEALTH CHECK On February 13, 2017February 16, 2017 By Eric In Salesforce1 Comment
Back in Spring ’16, Salesforce added a tool for assessing an org’s security – _Setup > Security Controls > Health Check_. I hadn’t had a reason to use it until recently. Despite having the standard System Administrator profile, I got the following error whentrying to use it.
> INSUFFICIENT PRIVILEGES>
> You do not have the level of access necessary to perform the > operation you requested. Please contact the owner of the record or > your administrator if access is necessary. For more information, see > Insufficient Privileges Errors.>
> Click here to return to the previous page. It took me a bit of Googling to figure out what was going on. According to the Security Implementation Guide;
> USER PERMISSIONS > To view Health Check: > • “View Setup and Configuration” AND “Modify All Data” Easy enough. My profile didn’t have those enabled so, I created a permission set, updated those two permissions, and assigned the set tomy user.
No luck.
After yet a bit more searching, I noticed two permissions called “View Health Check” and “Manage Health Check”. Enabling those finally gave me access. Hope this helps save you some head scratching.Related Resources:
* Salesforce Spring ’16 Release notes – Security Health Check * Security Health Check Documentation * How is the Health Check score calculated? * Salesforce Security Implementation GuideDIY MONITOR HOOD
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Given
recent upgrades in my printing capabilties, I decided to treat myself to a new monitor as well. After some research, I selected a Dell U2413 , a sub-$500, backlit IPS with wide-gamut coverage (99% Adobe RGB, 100% sRGB). With good reviews onTFT Central and
elsewhere, it’s probably one of the best options for amateur photographers who can’t justify spending $2,200 on an EizoColorEdge .
While purportedly marketing their flagship monitor to prosumer photographers, Dell unfortunately didn’t see fit to manufacture a hood for it. I wanted a monitor hood to block the light coming in from my large windows (and more honestly, because pimping my monitor adds a little photog street cred). Options on eBay were either expensive or cheaply made. So, I decided to go the DIY route and build my own inspired by Roger Sacu l’s, post on DIY Photography.
I took his concept a few steps closer to professional hoods I’ve seen. First, my design eliminates any gaps that would be noticeable if a light source were behind your monitor by extending the supports the width and length of the monitors’s top and sides. Secondly, I incorporate microsuede to eliminate any reflections off the smooth surface of the plastic. The end result looks a lot closer to the real deal (for a lot less money). While his post contains a basic framework and some nicely taken photos of the end product, it’s a bit short on the details one would normally find on an Instructable . While I’m not as good a photographer, I do have some skill with Google SketchUp . So, hopefully, this post fills some of those gaps (pun intended). First of those shortcomings was a inadequate Bill of Materials. Hereyou go;
Plastruct 90007 Angle ABS 5/16″ (Pack of 4) (They’re grey. Don’t worry. We’ll takecare of that later)
ABS Sheet – .118″ Thick, Black, 12″ x 24″(or 24″ x 24″
for full length sides) 12″ X 36″ Self-Adhesive MicroSuede Testors Enamel 1/4 Oz Bottle Flat Black 1.75oz Testors Enamel Plastic Model Paint Thinner Surehold Plastic Surgery Super Glue Velcro strips (Pack of 4) Heavy Duty Utility Knife or hacksaw Medium Grit Sandpaper Backing board (larger than 6″ x 12″) The second shortcoming of Roger’s post was a lack of comprehensive measurements. Those that were present had some weird “cm” notation that my ruler didn’t have on it. Here in ‘Merica we use the Imperial units of measure just like the Queenintended!
You could use these instructions to construct a hood for another brand or size monitor. You can adjust the top and side dimensions accordingly. You’ll obviously need a larger ABS sheet for monitorswider than 24″.
CUTTING
The ABS sheet has a textured and smooth end. ALL CUTS SHOULD BE MADE SMOOTH SIDE UP. This will serve as the interior face of the hood. Don’t worry about stray marks since we’ll eventually cover things up with paint and the adhesive suede. First, cut the ABS sheet down the middle lengthwise to form two 6″ x 24″ sections. If you have a hacksaw, you may be able to do this is one cut. I only had a utility blade. While this eats up less material in the cutting (i.e. the width of the blade equals the amount of material lost), it takes longer because you need to “score” the
material. If you’re not familiar with scoring, that’s where you don’t cut the material in one operation but, instead do a progression of cuts, each deeper than the next, to eventually cut all the way through. One trick I found was that I only need to score about halfway through before I could fold the sheet and get a fairly cleancut.
Another tip to get a nice clean score; once I had my straightedge laid out and measured correctly, I used blue painter’s tape to “lock it down” on the non-cutting side. This keeps the straightedge from moving between scores (cuts). Resist the urge to try adding too much pressure on each cut. This first one is the longest and I honestly had to walk away from it because my hand went numb after a while. Taking a 30 minute break, some aspirin, and some beer helped me. I highly recommend it. Now, you have two sections of 6″ x 24″. Take one and cut it in half as well. Same process as before. The resulting 6″ X 12″ sections will be the sides of the hood. Now, here’s the only part that varies depending on your specific monitor; the length of the top section. The U2413 has curved corners so just running a tape measure along the top is a inaccurate. The better option is to run the tape measure across the face of the monitor and measure to the outtermost edges. Now here’s the most important part; be very exact and remember to add the width of the ABS angles. Here’s how it worked in my case; edge to edge the U2413 is 21 7/8″ wide (like I said, be exact to 16th’s of an inch). If you bought the same angle as in my bill of materials, the wall width of the angle is 1/16″. We will use two angles; one on each side. 21 7/8″ + 1/16″ + 1/16″ = 22″ If you have a U2413 like me, then just take the 6″ x 24″ section and cut the length to exactly 22 inches.Left:
The 6″x 12″ sides – Right: The 22″ top with a bit of scrapleft over.
_NOTE: At a 12″ length my sides are about 2 3/4″ short of the bottom of the monitor. If you’d like longer sides (as I would, were I to do it again) use a 24″ x 24″ ABS sheet . You’ll have to adjust your measurements slightly and make a few more cuts._ If you’re tired of cutting, you could just leave the sides squares and go straight to gluing. However, curved edges will make your end result look that much more professional. Here’s where I found Roger’s post the most lacking in detail. He just referenced an Eizo manual and a small diagram of the hood that comes with it. I found that difficult to adjust to the dimensions I needed. So, I created my own using OmniGraffle . You can download my PDF Template. Print the template file on US Legal paper (8.5″ x 14″). Cut it out along the lines and you have your first template. Now, paper isn’t thick enough to use as a straightedge. So, take your paper template and transfer it onto the matboard. I taped the paper to the board on the three straight edges (line it up corner to corner). Use the utility knife to cut along the curve and bottom edge. TIP: USE A PEN TO WRITE LEFT ON ONE SIDE OF THE MATBOARD AND RIGHT ON THE OTHER. THIS WILL REMIND YOU TO FLIP THE MATBOARD BETWEEN CUTS AND KEEP YOU FROM ENDING UP MAKING DUPLICATES OF THE SAME SIDE. You don’t have a lot of margin for error with materials here, so measure twice and cut oncealways.
Matboard
Template
Using
the matboard as a cutting template. (Ignore that mine is longer thanthe plastic)
Repeat the same steps (tape included), this time with the matboard to transfer the shape to the two 6″ x 12″ pieces of ABS plastic. Use the same scoring techniques as before; SMOOTH SIDE FACING UP. Again be sure which side you’re cutting on, otherwise you could end up creating two of the same side. Now you have to cut the L-shaped angle pieces that will serve as the connectors and frame for the top and sides. Again you can use a saw or knife. Same techniques apply. I found it was easy to use my blade to cut through one part of the angle and then just fold it to make a clean break, rather than cut through the entire thing. That will savesome time.
If you bought the same item I have in my bill of materials, you have four sections 24″ long. You’ll need only three of these with somematerial left over.
Take one section and cut it into 4 equal lengths of 6″ each. These will be the top left and right inner and outer corners. Take a second section, and cut it in half; two lengths of 11 1/2″ each. These will be the left and right vertical edges. Take the third section and cut it to 21 3/8″. This will be your top horizontal section. It will go between the two vertical sections so, we subtract their width from our top measurement (22″ – 1/16″– 1/16″) .
ASSEMBLY
Finally, all the cutting is done. Now comes the assembly. A word of advice, try fitting pieces together before gluing. Once you lay down glue, you’re committed. Sanding the areas to be glued helps gives the glue a better surface to adhere to. You may also need to sand edges just to make sure things marry up correctly. Also, I highly recommend the Plastic Surgery glue.
It’s like Krazy Glue only better suited for plastics. I started off using PermaPoxy PlasticWeld and it was terrible for such detailed work. Epoxy expands on drying; creating gaps and leaving residue all over the place. After switching, I was much happier with the results. Take the 22″ x 6″ panel of black ABS that will serve as the top of the hood and place it textured side down. Use the sand paper to scuff up the smooth surface on the left and right face. This will help the glue adhere better. Take two of your 6″ lengths of the gray angles and sand the outer sides as well. Glue the angles flush to the left and right sides of the sheet, angle facing inwards. I used a wood block to make sure the angle was flush to the side. Don’t leave it there too long or it might get glued aswell!
Glue
the angles to the left and right sides of the top facing inward andflush to the edge.
Next, take the longest 21 3/8″ gray angle section, sand and glue it parallel to the long edge of the black sheet, 11/16″ from that edge. Make sure the inside of the angle is facing the same edge as in theimage below.
Overview: Place the cross angle between the side angles and perpendicular to the back edge.Detail:
Place the angle facing the edge and 11/16″ from the edge. Wait about 30 minutes to let the glue dry sufficiently. Now, you can move on to gluing on the sides. Sand the smooth face on the top edge of the side panel and glue it to the side angle on the top section. Repeat on the other side.Glue
on the sides with the smooth part facing in and the curve facing away from the cross angle. I used a stack of books to hold the side panels vertical while the glue dried. I was concerned about the possibility of dripping glue adhering the whole thing to my desk, so I shifted the whole piece slightly every few second for the first 30 seconds. Give the glue another 30 minutes to dry after that. Take the two remaining 6″ lengths of gray angle and glue them to the outside corners of the top and sides. This will cover up any imperfections in the cuts and make the whole thing more stable.This
exterior angle helps add stability and makes the glue-up look nicer. Next part is a bit tricky. Remember you have an extra angle piece ifyou F* it up.
You have two remaining angles 11 1/2″ long. We’ll glue those to the sides, perpendicular to the cross angle. Cut a notch in the top of the angle to make it fit flush and covers any gaps. Again the angle is 11/16″ from the edge.Overview:
Placement of vertical side angles.Detail:
Notching the end of the angle allows it to sit flush. It’s easier to confuse sides here, so take your time and do one side at a time. Sand and glue the angles with the inside corner facing theback.
Overview:
Top down view of completed assembly.FINISHING TOUCHES
Sand down any sharp edges or overlapping sections where things aren’t flush. You may have some white on the edges of the black plastic sheet from where you folded it. Sanding it will get it back to black. We’ll also use the paint at the end for touchups. Cut out a section of the microsuede 23″ x 5 7/16″. This is one inch longer than the top piece so, you have overlap with the suede on the side walls. I scored the backing in the middle so i could do one half at a time. Line up the suede flush to the front edge and fold the back edge over the cross angle. Binder clips or clamps can help here.Apply
the microsuede to the top front of the monitor hood. It will overlap the sides a bit to cover the interior angle. Use the matboard form you used to make the curved sides to cut out two pieces of the microsuede. MAKE SURE TO MAKE ALL YOUR CUTS ARE ADHESIVE SIDE UP AND MAKE SURE TO FLIP THE FORM OVER FROM LEFT TO RIGHT. Otherwise, you’ll end up getting making duplicates of one side rather than two sides (as I did). The adhesive is quite strong so take your time to line things up. The suede should be flush to the front curved edge (not the back). Remove the backing and starting from the front curved edge, lay down the microsuede. When you get to the L- shaped side angles fold the microsuede over them. You may need the utility knife to make some cuts on the top and bottom. I used binder clips to ensure a solid adhesion on the angles. Trim the material between the back edge and the angle since that’s where we’ll place the velcro strips.Apply
the microsuede on the sides. Make sure it is flush to the front(curved) edge.
You can cut extra pieces to cover any gaps, but if you did this correctly the only exposed plastic on the interior will be covered by the monitor itself. If the edges have frayed threads coming out, light a match and run the flame quickly down the edge. This will melt the synthetic threads and keep them from unraveling. Paint all outer gray angles and cover any other imperfections with thematte black paint.
Lastly, use the Command strips or adhesive Velcro to attach the hood to the monitor. I placed a one velcro strip on each side and two on top. You’ll need to trim the pieces to fit. One day when I get a hacksaw, maybe I’ll cut a section out of the top center so I cant use my display calibration with the hood on. (See step 7 in Roger’s post.)
My hand was too cramped after all that cutting to bother.FINAL PRODUCT
Here’s a few attempts at documenting the final product as beautifully as Roger did. PROFILING AN EPSON 9600 WITH AN X-RITE I1 PRO AND ARGYLLCMS On March 29, 2014February 16, 2017 By Eric In Photography, Web/Tech
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This is part 3 of my continuing experience with an old Epson 9600 i picked up on Craigslist. (See part 1and Part
2
)
DO YOU SEE WHAT I SEE? After spending as much on paper, ink, and parts as I did purchasing the printer, I decided to put another ($400) drop in the bucket to pick up a X-rite (formerly GregtagMacbeth) i1 Basic Pro spectrophotometer (a.k.a Eye-One Pro, EFIES-1000) on Ebay
.
This tool handles profiling both my display and my printer. Display profiling confirms that the colors on the screen are actually what’s in the image file. Printer profiling confirms that the ink hitting the paper matches what the computer thinks it’s sending. Having both sides of the equation in place means what you see on the screen should match what you see on the page. Calibrating my printer and looking good doing it. In my last few projects, I’ve been dealing with lack of supported software for older hardware. This effort is no exception. The i1 Basic Pro (Is that an oxymoron or what?) originally came with i1Match,
ProfileMaker
and
MonacoPROFILER
all of
which won’t run on my Intel-based Macbook running OSX 10.8. X-Rite recommends upgrading to i1Profiler. You
can download
it
from their site easily enough, but unless your device has a license key for it, it will run in evaluation only mode. There is an upgradepath you can buy
,
but that will run you $699. For that I could have bought a brand new i1 Basic Pro 2 at $1200 . Though, more likely, I would have gotten the popular and less-expensive prosumer version, the ColorMunki Photo . From previous experience,
I was aware that the open-source software, ArgyllCMS, supported the i1
without purchasing
the upgrade. It’s worth noting that with X-Rite and Spyder a lot of their offerings have the same device and it’s only the software included that limits or enables the device’s capabilities. So, using ArgyllCMS can allow you to get more for less (i.e. free). ARGYLLCMS TO THE RESCUE Installing Argyll is very straightforward. The website has some instructions for Mac installationwhich I needed to
modify for my newer OS. Here is a revised version that should work on10.8.5 and later.
Download the latest version and unzip it. I put the resulting folder in my Application directory. I also recommend removing the version number from the folder name so that when you upgrade, you can just drop the updated files in this directory without having to redo the next step. On the Mac, you will need to add the ArgyllCMS to the path. Step 1: Open Terminal Step 2: Enter the follow commands: open ~/.bash_profile Step 3: Add the following line to the end of the file adding whatever additional directory you want in your path in the format _PATH=$PATH:$HOME/PATH_TO_DIRECTORY/Argyll/bin_ PATH=$PATH:$HOME/Application/Argyll/bin Step 4: Save the .bash_profile file and Quit Step 5: Force the .bash_profile to execute. This loads the values immediately without having to reboot. In your Terminal window, run thefollowing command.
source ~/.bash_profile Step 6: You can confirm the new path by opening a new Terminal windowand running:
echo $PATH
So, once you’re done, you just need to open Terminal, navigate to the ArgyllCMS directory and run the commands that follow. I keep the commands saved in a text document so it’s a cut n’ paste operation. Easy peasy! See my earlier post for a handy utility that opens terminal directly from a Finder window.
COLOR MANAGEMENT FOR DOCTORATES The ArgyllCMS site has a page that gives a run down on the steps involved in creating a printer profile. It’s detailed.
Very detailed. Very, very detailed. To quote; > “Most printers running through simple drivers will appear as if > they are RGB devices. In fact there is no such thing as a real RGB > printer, since printers use white media and the colorant must > subtract from the light reflected on it to create color, but the > printer itself turns the incoming RGB into the native print > colorspace, so for this reason we will tell targen to use the > “Print RGB” colorspace, so that it knows that it’s really a > subtractive media. Other drivers will drive a printer more directly, > and will expect a CMYK profile. “ Hmm. Yup. Yup. Yeah. I recognize some of these words. Yup, definitelywords.
Even if you know what Color Management is,
the documentation can be a bit dense; detailed to the point of obscurity, some might say. If you don’t know what Color Management is, then you may want to start backing away very slowly. While I lack an advanced degree in color theory, I do have quite a bit experience with command-line programs. So, after a few days of trial, error, and Google, I have developed a simple workflow that should help other newbies get started. In summary, you’ll create a print target, one or many pages with rows of colored squares, and then read that target with your spectrophotometer. From that reading, ArgyllCMS generates a printer profile (.icc). There are five steps;* targen – this
command tells ArgyllCMS how many patches to put in the target * printtarg – here you generate TIF file(s) of your target * Print the TIF file(s) without Color Management* chartread –
captures the data coming from the spectrophotometer * colprof – creates the printer profile from the chart scan Technically, you only need to do the first two steps once, because once you have your TIF file generated, you can just reprint that for any subsequent re-profiling. (Though this may not be entirely correct, since the ArgyllCMS documentation differentiates between printerprofiling and
printer calibration
with the latter
being used to “allow day to day correction of device drift without resorting to a full re-profile”. Honestly, it’s outside the scope of my understanding thus far and maybe I’ll revisit it after I delveinto it more.)
If you just want the ArgyllCMS commands I used without the details and colored commentary (pun intended), jump to the Summary at the end.STEP 1 – TARGEN
By default, targen with the minimum options for an RGBprinter will
generate 836 patches, which when printed on US Letter, will span a little under 2 pages. targen -v -d2 FileName Now you may be asking yourself, “Do I have an RGB printer?” If in doubt, try answering the following questions; * Name an aquatic animal that can see more than RGB? * How the heck does the K in CMYK mean black? * Is RIP something that only pertains to funerals? * Did you buy your fine art printer at Costco? _Answers: 1) The Mantis Shrimp , 2) The K in CMYK stands for “Key Plate”. In CMYK, this is usually done with black ink. Plus, B already meant Blue. 3) No. See Raster Image Processor. 4) Seriously?_
If you answered “What the what?” to most or all of these questions, you probably have a printer that uses an RGB driver regardless of how many ink colors are physically put into it. If you have a driver or RIP that is printing directly to CMYK, than you should probably be writing this article. I humbly await yourcomments.
But, I digress… Good paper’s not cheap. So, I wanted to maximize the patches per square inch. If you look at the chart at the bottom of the targen documentation , it lists the ideal patches/page for your device. For the Eye-One Pro, it’s 462 for 1 page, 924 for 2 pages, and in multiples of that so forth. targen -v -d2 -G -e8 -g128 -f700 EyeOne1pg With some fiddling, I got 700 patches on a single letter sized sheet. Let’s break down how. _targen -v -d2 -G -e8 -g128 -f700 EyeOne1pg_* – Shows
progress on the screen so, you aren’t just left listening to the fan whirr and wondering what’s going on* – Because you
have an RGB printer from Costco* – “Generate
good optimized points rather than Fast” because good is better than fast. That’s what she said.
* – White
color test patches. Default is 4.* – Prints
128 greyscale patches so you can do accurate B&W prints later. Probably want to multiply this if you do multiple pages.* – Overall
patch count.
Some threads I readsuggested patch
counts of 2000-3000 for accurate profiles on large format printers. That seems excessive to me. The profiles I produced with a single sheet looked great. Though if you wanted to, just scale the number accordingly; 1400 for 2 pages, 2100 for 3 pages, etc. _STEP 2 – PRINTTARG_ This is the part that I spent the most time tweaking. Setting the number of patches is easy. Getting it to fit properly on the page will kill a few trees. Here’s how I got the one pager above. _printtarg -v -ii1 -L -a0.87 -m8 -M8 -T360 -P -pLetter EyeOne1pg_* – Because
watching the text output makes me feel like Neo.* –
Specifies the device; i1. For example, Colormonki would be* – Gets rid
of the extra whitespace created for the clip on the scanning board. You
don’t need it. It’s a over-engineered gimmick.* –
Scales down the patches. The i1 can read patches a minimum of 7mm2.Default is 10mm2.
* – Sets the
top/bottom and left/right margins to 8mm.* – Create
a TIF (postscript is default) at 360 dpi* – Doesn’t
limit the strip length.* – set
the page size to US Letter (8.5″ x 11″) * EyeOne1pg – name of the resulting TIF If you want to print multiple pages and modified the patch count accordingly inTargen, you don’t need to change anything here. STEP 3 – PRINT THE TARGET Use the Adobe Color Printer Utility application to print your targets without color management applied. Don’t use Photoshop, since newer versions don’t let you print without color management.
With Epson printers, you also want to be sure you’re not using the color controls built into the printer. I’ve also heard you can also use Mac’s native ColorSync (Applications > Utilities), if you select “Print as Color Target” under ColorSync Utility on the print options. While I couldn’t see any difference between the outputs of the two methods, I went with the Abobe utility as it was recommended by more users. In the Adobe Color Printer Utility,
select the TIF created in the previous step. Go to File > Page Setup and select your printer and paper size, US Letter. Your paper size options may be named differently and you may have several options within US Letter. Just be sure to select the one that has the minimum borders or is borderless. Hover over the option to see the marginsizes.
Adobe Color Printer Utility – Page Setup Select the Letter option with the smallest margins. Next, select File > Print. Under Printer Settings, select the correct media type. If you’re using a non-Epson brand paper, look on the manufacturer’s website for the media equivalent. For example, I’m using Canson Baryta Photographique 310gsm which according to theirwebsite is
equivalent to Epson’s Premium Semi Gloss Photo Paper.Print Options
Set your print quality. Confirm ColorSettings is disabled and print away. Let the print dry for a few hours (or even overnight) beforescanning.
STEP 4 – CHARTREAD Go back to terminal and enter; _chartread -T0.4 EyeOne1pg_ The program will run you through a set off prompts to complete the scan. First it will ask you to place the i1 on its calibraton plate. Next, it will ask you to start scanning starting a row A. i1 on its calibration plate The i1, printed target, and scanning ruler on the backing board Here are some tips on scanning; * The scan starts when you press the button on the side of the i1, but there is a delay. So, wait till you hear the “Bonk” sound on your computer before starting to move the device. The sound plays through the computer not the device and is very low, so make sure your volume is turned up. * You can scan in either direction; top to bottom or vice versa. Alternating each line makes the whole process go faster. * Center the row vertically in the ruler opening so there is whitespace on both ends. * Line the row up horizontally in the center in ruler opening so that the patches aren’t touching the edges. * If you have to retry a row of a few times, try re-positioning theruler.
* Because we eliminated the white space on the left you can’t clip the page and use the ruler on the first few rows. Once you’re past those rows you can move the paper and clip it if you want to. I find the weight of the ruler hold the paper in place even without theclip.
* If you don’t have a backing board any flat surface will do but, be careful, because the color of that surface can show through the paper. Put another sheet of the same paper beneath it to prevent any color bleeding through.STEP 5 – COLPROF
The last step is to generate the printer profile from the scan. First, copy AdobeRBB1988.icc (located in HD > System > Library > Colorsync > Profiles) to the ArgyllCMS Directory. Next, here’s the command I used and the breakdown. _colprof -v -A “Epson” -M “Stylus Pro 9600” -D “*Epson 9600 Canson Baryta Photographique CCpro” -qh -S AdobeRGB1998.icc -cmt -dpp -O Epson9600Baryta_PaperCCPro.icc EyeOne1pg* – You’ll
definitely want progress shown. This process can take a while.* –
Manufacturer (optional)* – Model
(optional)
* – Very
important. This is what you’ll see as the profile name in Photoshop and Lightroom. I put a leading * in the name to bring it to the top of the list and clearly differentiate the custom from standard profiles (see image below). In this example, I use the printer model, paper name, and ink type (CCpro = ConeColor Pro K3).
* -Set quality
to ‘High”
* – I used Adobe1998 as source profile for gamut mapping. I confess to doing this only because most of the threads I read suggested doing so. That’s all the color profile I use in Photoshop, so it made sense. Reading About ICC profiling and GamutMapping didn’t
exactly clarify things. So, let’s take this one on faith. * – “Monitor in typical work environment” Taking thisone on faith, too.
* –
“Monitor in typical work environment” And this one as well.*
– resulting filename The last step is to copy the .icc file from the ArgyllCMS directory to Macintosh HD > Library > ColorSync > Profiles. You’ll have to enter your password to do so. The new profile appears in the Photoshop print menu Open up Photoshop, go to print and now you’ll see your new profile available in the list of available Printer Profiles under Color Management. If you don’t see it listed, try restarting yourcomputer.
SUMMARY
In summary, the steps are; * _targen -v -d2 -G -e8 -g128 -f700 FileName_ * _printtarg -v -ii1 -L -a0.87 -m8 -M8 -T360 -P -pLetter FileName_ * Print the TIF file * _chartread -T0.4 FileName_ * _colprof -v -A “Printer Brand” -M “Printer model” -D “Profile Name/Description” -qh -S AdobeRGB1998.icc -cmt -dpp -O ProfileName.icc FileName_ To test my results, I compared a test image I printed on my 2200 using third party inks and Epson’s standard profile with the same image printed with the same inks and my new custom profile; both on Epson Photo Glossy paper. (I’m using my Epson 2200 instead of my 9600 because there was a more noticeable improvement with that printer/ink combination.) ‘Before’ print on top. ‘After’ print on bottom. Above, I put my ‘before’ print on top of my ‘after’ print and took an (admittedly poorly lit) photo of the two to illustrate the difference, which I found most pronounced in the skin tones on my test image. The bottom print made with my custom inks and profile had less of a color cast and much more natural colors in the faces. I also compared the ‘after’ print to a test image I printed a few months ago on my 2200 using Epson’s inks and profile. Using the custom ink/profile combination gave results that looked much closer to output from Epson’s standard ink/profile combination. In closing, ArgyllCMS is a very sophisticated application of which, like Photoshop, I feel I am only scratching the surface of. From the forums I’ve read, its level of sophistication is on par with X-rite’s i1Profiler and superior to the Colormunki’s software. As my understanding of color management practices increases I may revisit some of the options I used here and get even better results. That being said, I was able to get results I was very happy with with only a small learning curve. Some users may be turned off using a command line interface, but having gone through the steps once and saving the commands in a text document, I feel that the next go around would bepainless.
On the hardware side, the i1 may be an advanced piece of kit, but in my opinion, it could use some better product design. You can tell it was engineered for one purpose and then retrofitted to serve others. The form factor is clearly designed for reading printed targets. Which is evident by all the awkward accessories needed to set it up to do display or projector calibrations. The Colormunki, with its single-body multi-purpose design, is superior in comparison even if it’s inner-workings are inferior. If I had to make the choice again, I might opt for the one that took up far less room in my smallNYC apartment.
Hope this was helpful.RESOURCES
* ArgyllCMS mailing list* DPReview post
FUTUREPROOFING THE EPSON 9600 On March 3, 2014February 16, 2017 By Eric In Photography, Web/Tech
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_This is part 2 of my continuing experience with an old Epson 9600 i picked up on Craigslist. Be sure to check out Part 1and Part 3
)_
THAT’S SO 20TH CENTURY First, I wanted to update the firmware to the latest version. The biggest challenge was that for the Mac, the installer was only available for Mac System 9. (I know, right?) So, being the techno-wizard I am, I dived head-first into looking at emulators to run the older Mac OS (like Sheepshaverand Basilisk
II ) but they couldn’t access printer drivers. Even using a DOS emulator like DosBox or a Virtual Machine like VirtualBox didn’t help. Eventually I tossed in the towel and went with the path of least resistance (or so I thought), dug up an old PC, some boot disks, and a copy of Windows XP (I know, right?) After several hours of being reminded why I made the switch to Mac, I finally was able to get XP running. I installed the printer driver, and then the Printer ServiceUtility v1.33
but
the utility would not “see” the printer despite being able to print test pages. I uninstalled the utility, installed StatusMonitor3 v3.1b
to
check the connection and that application worked fine. After rebooting and reinstalling, the utility finally recognized the printer and I was able to update to Firmware version BW1452_Q.UPG.
Hello Windows, my old friend… GATHER YE SPARE PARTS WHILE YE MAY… The printer came to me in fairly good shape; no clogs or any of the major issues I saw commonly cited on Luminous Landscape and in the Epson Wide FormatYahoo group
.
So my concern with such an old printer was more on future-proofing; guarding against some of the planned obsolescense inherent intoday’s hardware.
There are only a few parts distributors listed on Epson’s Support Page for user replaceable parts.
Most of these sites are god-awful, user-unfriendly garbage. * CompassMicro – Surprisingly, this website was updated in 2013. I
hope they didn’t pay a lot. Of the few parts listed for my model, most are marked as unavailable.* Encompass Parts
– Looks like it has a lot of parts but once you drill into the details and check the _Total __Availability_ or _Estimated Ship Date_ you’ll see there actually aren’t. * National Parts Depot–
* TSAWorld – Shows one part, but if you search by part number it has some listed under the 7600. Requires login to view pricing.* PC Parts Canada
– no
pricing/availability just quotes. My foray into these virtual junkyards made me feel only more certain that I needed to stockpile some parts if and when I could find them. So the next stop, of course, was Ebay. I picked up an Automatic cutter (part # C12C815291) for $60, less than the $95 Epson charges.
I also bought three (at $6 each plus shipping) Head Cleaners aka Wipers (part #1230744 or #1113691 depending on where you look) from American Injet Systemsbecause
I didn’t trust the cheap knockoffs from China floating around on Ebay. Manual says they last about a year each and the status page I printed said mine was about 3/4th of the way through its useful life. Epson 9600 cutter replacement and wipers US INVASION OF EPSON IMMINENT A 220ml cartridge of Epson Ink for the 9600 retails at $138.
So while people go crazy when gas goes above $4/gallon, a gallon of printer ink will set you back over $2,300. High-quality third-party ink like Ink2Image’s Cave Paintand InkJetMall’s
ConeColor inks
run about 50% less (a reasonable $1,150/gallon). That discount and the possibility that Epson may discontinue manufacturing cartridges for this model — as ConeColor just recently discontinued their K2 inks in favor of the K3 used by newer Epson models — led me to invest in refillable cartridges. ConeColor’s cartridges were highly recommended but, in my opinion, over-priced at $242. I ended up getting a full set of eight from InkJetCarts.us for $153. The same set were cheaper at InkPro2Day and InkOwl but InkJetCarts had a better reputation for support on some of the forums. Which turned out to be true, since one cartridge was missing a stopper and chip. I contacted them and the next day received a replacement. Be sure to check the chips on you set aren’t loose and apply a bit of glue if they are (be care not to get glue on the contacts). If any one falls off inside the bay, you might have to dismantle the whole thing to retrieve it. (Edit: I’m now on my second set which I purchased from InkOwl . Looking at another vendor on Amazon they must come from from a common supplier because they look exactly the same, only less expensive.) Refillable cartridges I wasn’t completely happy right off the bat. I found the cartridges wouldn’t stay in their slots like the OEM carts and constantly pop back out. Because of this, I couldn’t get the printer to recognize that all new the cartridges were installed. It ended up being a game of whack-a-mole. When I got one working, the red light on another turned on. What finally worked was turning off thechip counter
that keeps track of ink levels. I had planned to do that anyway to reduce the wear and tear on the delicate gaskets and chips caused by taking the cartridges in and out.BUMP IN THE ROAD
When I installed the cartridges, I hadn’t received my inks from ConeColor yet. I was too eager to play with my new toy and transferred the ink from my old OEM cartridges using a syringe. However, I was really low on Light Magenta and the amount in the cartridge wasn’t enough to keep air from getting into the line when I first ran the IntFill
procedure. My heart dropped when I saw bubbles in the line. I had to deal with the same issue for hours once with my 2200 and now I had the same problem on a printer 5 times as big and complex. Nearly all suggestions I read talked about taking out the dampers or running cleaner through the lines; actions that require lots of dismantling, replacing, and praying. My heart dropped with every word. Air bubbles than can potentially kill your print head. One forum suggested just running the Int Fillprocedure
again. This seemed the least invasive course of action. So when my ink arrived, I filled up the carts, primed each one again (just to make sure), and ran int fill. I watched it run, thinking there’s no way it’ll be this easy. Once it finished, however, a quick inspection showed the line was clear of bubbles. Nice! The printer gods must be smiling upon me. Next step was to print a nozzle check. “Error: Maintenance Tank Full”. Curse you, printer gods! The maintenance tank gets filled up quickly with all the ink the printer wastes constantly cleaning the print head. So, you always needs a spare. Epson charges $40 for thisplastic container
filled
with absorbent material. Luckily, the chip resetter that came with my ink cartridges (more on those) also also worked on the tank. So my plan was just to crack open the tank, replace the material, reset the counter, and feel better about not adding needless waste to ourlandfills. Edit
When I took out the tank, I could feel that it weighed about 5 pounds (in other words, a few hundred dollars worth of ink). Mind you, I had just installed this new tank less than a month ago. When you crack it open to get the used material out, you’re going to want to do this over the sink because a good amount of the ink will pour out. I rinsed out the whole thing being carefull not to get the chip on the side wet. (I was also able to rinse out the material — which comes in pre-cut slices — and save it for future reuse.) Then I stuffed the dried tank full with 2 packs of 2×2 Cotton Squares that I had bought for $5. Incidentally, I did look at using diapers but, damn!, they are expensive for something that just gets sh*t on. Paper towels are not a good choice since tend to disintegrate as they get wet. Cotton holds together better and, when placed on their side, I was able to pack the squares in much tighter than cotton balls. I used the chip resetter, popped the tank back in, and everything was good to go at 1/10th thecost.
Packing an emptied maintenance tank with cotton squares.Before and after
NEXT STEPS OR THE LONG MARCH TO DIMINISHING RETURNS Since I’m not using official Epson inks anymore and I’ve heard about the 9600 exhibiting color drift over time, I’m planning to color calibrate the printer. My recent effort with my Spyder 2 helped calibrate my display so, I know what I see on the screen is what’s getting sent to the printer’s driver. However, without measuring the final output, I still haven’t closed the color management loop. For that I’ll need a Spectrophotometer. Back to Ebay, I
guess.
GETTING THE DATACOLOR SPYDER 2 TO WORK WITH MAC OS X 10.8 On November 8, 2013February 16, 2017 By Eric In Photography, Web/Tech
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Given
my recent foray into large format printing, I needed to dig into the old junk drawer and excavate my Spyder2 Color Calibrator to profile my monitor. It’s been a few years since I last used it, so off to DataColor’s website to download the latest and greatest software. But lo and behold, as has become a recent trend in my digital archeology, the Spyder2 software doesn’t have a version that runs onMac 10.8.5.
Hopes rose anew when I read that I could use the slightly newer Spyder3Express software to run my older Spyder 2 device.
Furthermore, DataColor asserted that it’s software (including Spyder3Express) should work with Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8). This
has not been my experience. Following their own instructionsfor Mac OSX, I
installed the Spyder3Express software for use with my Spyder2 device. The installation was flawless. The software recognized my hardware and ran all the way through the calibration. When the calibration process said _Measuring is Complete_ and I clicked _Finish,_ I got thefollowing error;
Sorry, there was a problem getting the Color directory name(GetColorDirectory)
CMSSupport.cpp 445
-48 (OxFFFFFFD0)
Clicking _OK_ only brought up a second error message; Sorry, there was a problem creating the profile. (1) >>>file://localhost/Applications/Datacolor/Spyder3Express.app/Contents/MacOs/Spyder3Express<<<CMSSupport 355
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Clicking OK on the second message brought me to the preview screen. Flipping between the uncorrected and corrected profile options did change the display and the change remained after closing the application. But once the laptop rebooted, the default (old) profilewas re-applied.
From some research on the Interwebs, I didn’t find any solutions but started to suspect it was a permissions issue. A response from DataColor support confirmed this suspicion. I had assumed that the applications was trying to write to _/Library/ColorSync/Profiles_, which is where I had put all the custom ICC profiles for my printer. Support told me that the app is actually trying to write to _/Users/YOUR USERNAME/Library/ColorSync/Profiles/_. Problem is that staring from 10.7 Lion, Apple has set the User Library to be hidden. So the solution, is to make that directory writable either temporarilyor permanently.
I opened up Terminal (Applications > Utilities > Terminal for those who don’t have in in the dock) and cut and paste in the followingcommand.
sudo chflags nohidden ~/Library Verify the profile is created in Display preferences You’ll be prompted for your password. Once that’s done, this will make the directory visible and writable. Next, I navigated to _/Users/YOUR USERNAME/Library/_ in Finder. There wasn’t a folder called Colorsync as I expected. However, there was a text file with that name. I moved the file to my desktop for safe keeping and then created the _ColorSync_ folder and then the _Profiles_ folder within in. (I’m fairly certain the names are case-sensitive.) Afterwards, I was able to run the Spyder3Express application and get all the way through without error. In System Preferences, I could see the new Spyder3Express profile listed. If you want to hide the User Library again, you could go back to Terminal and run the command line; sudo chflags hidden ~/Library I didn’t do this, because I didn’t want to have to do this everytime I ran another calibration. POSTSCRIPT – DISPCALGUI In my troubleshooting research I came accross an open source color calibration software that supports the Spyder2; dispCalGui – by Florian Höch Here are the installation steps (lifted from the Quickstart guide)
* Download Spyder PRO_2.3.5_Setup.exe from http://support.datacolor.com/index.php?/Knowledgebase/Article/View/1423/88/spyder2pro-235–win (yes, I know its an EXE file) * Download Argyll CMS – http://argyllcms.com/downloadmac.html * Open the Argyll CMZ archive file. Copy the newly created folder toApplications.
* Download DispCalGui – http://dispcalgui.hoech.net/#download * Install DispCalGui – double click the DMG to extract the content. Create new folder called DispCalGui under Applications and copy contents over. * Run the app dispcalGUI – It will first ask you for the location of the Argyllcms. It wants the _bin_ folder in the directory youcreated.
* Go to Tools > Enable Sypder 2 Colorimeter. It will ask for the location of the Spyder PRO_2.3.5_Setup.exe from step 1. * I had to run the aforementioned _sudo chflags nohidden ~/Library_ command in terminal before it would save the profiles. This seems tobe a known bug
and may be fixed in later releases. * You’re ready to go. The dispCalGUI is much more complex than the push-button Spyder app but, you have many more levels of control and options to choose from. This youTube video gives a fairly good tutorial on running your first calibration using DispcalGUI – Display Calibration Tutorial – How to calibrate your monitor correctlyPOSTS NAVIGATION
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