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Kodak's Nanopigment Technology It's about getting out of your box. Darek Johnson
Writing, whether it's technical, news or fiction, is an extremely human endeavor. No teams or machines produce high-quality writing. As for the human part, it's either fortunate or unfortunate that, over time, and as a writer gains knowledge and expertise on a subject, he or she sometimes expresses opinions some readers regard as ill-considered. Readers don't always share a writer's point of view.
Contrastingly, a frequent complaint among writers isn't about readers as much as the commercialization of the craft of writing. Newspaper writers, for example, say they're reined in if they speak unkindly of high-dollar advertisers, and novelists seem to find better opportunities by writing books in today's common movie format (hero/predicament/revenge), than, say, recording a chronological series of events. Also, it helps novelists to have television charisma. And to be blessed by Oprah.
This isn't the same as Sears Roebuck pulling its ads when Politically Incorrect's host, Bill Maher, after Sept. 11, described the U.S. military as "cowardly." Perhaps ABC should ask the comfortable Mr. Maher to broadcast from Haifa or Kandahar.
In any case, it's interesting to see a writer get out of his or her box. Alicia Mundy, in the March 25 issue of Editor and Publisher magazine, reported on writer Thomas L. Friedman's colleagues response to his Middle East peace proposal. Friedman, a two-time Pulitzer prize winner and winner of the National Book Award, is the author of From Beirut to Jerusalem and The Lexus and the Olive Tree. As a New York Times columnist, he may be America's foremost commentator on Middle East terrorism and globalization.
These illustrations display some of Kodak Professional's 5260 inkjet printer's high-tech components. Because of recent developments, the 5260 printheads -- and those found in several other types of inkjet printers -- operate as extremely miniature, digitally controlled (dot-by-dot) sprayguns. The smallest dot, 3pl, about one-fourth the thickness of a human hair, is from Epson's (Long Beach, CA) Ultra MicroDot printhead; for speed, consider the Aprion (Netanya, Israel) MAGIC printheads that fire up to 25,000 droplets per second.
So, how does an important guy like Friedman get into trouble?
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