What you want to do to assign a "permanent" drive letter is described in this web page. In short, you use a letter towards the end of the alphabet for drives that you want to always have the same letter. That is what I do for all of the drives I use for backups and drives that show up as empty unless an SD card is inserted. My Dell monitor has a SD card slot and always shows as a drive even if a card is not inserted.

This works because Windows assigns drive letters in alphabetical order and does not release them until a restart.

https://www.howtogeek.com/96298/assign-a-static-drive-letter-to-a-usb-drive-in-windows-7/

As an alternative, if the bend is not too severe and you are not printing border-less you can try to reverse the bend by hand. You will want the result to be as flat as possible and if still bent at all the bend should be slightly downward. You will also want the bent edge to be the trailing edge as it leaves the printer.

I managed to bend the corner of a box of 13x19 paper and I found this works well.

My understanding of the way SSDs work is that they need power, at least occasionally, in order to retain their data. That would indicate that SSDs would not be a good archival device. Spinning enterprise HDs retain data longer but still would eventually start to loose some data. My guess is that using multiple trusted cloud providers and spinning HDs that were replaced at regular intervals would provide a better guarantee.

Check out this web page - it describes the data retention capabilities of spinning and solid state hard drives:
https://blog.macsales.com/43702-we-bet-you-didnt-know-that-your-hdds-or-ssds-may-need-exercise-too/

Eventually there may be a more long lived technology.

This happens only in your web browser(s)?

Check out this video by Steve Perry on the Wimberley Monogimbal Head. If you don't see anything you like about it you probably don't need a head for your monopod. It makes me want to buy a monopod.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgj8bMviZOw

It does seem that Keynote has the ability to export your presentation to PDF format and maybe HTML format. Try both and re-upload them and then ask for opinions.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202220

The downside of using a Photography printer for proofing for a magazine is that the printer is optimized for creating really nice prints but it takes 2 minutes plus per page to print. The ink is also more expensive than the cost of toner for a color laser printer would be. If you do not need photographic prints on special paper and are only proofing for placement and do not need it to be 100% color correct a tabloid laser printer is what you would need. Color laser printers kick out pages at more like 10-20 pages per minute and usually the bottleneck for speed is delivering the data from the computer to the printer. And as I read your needs again, I do not think laser printers print borderless. That is why we have a tabloid extra printer. We mark the borders on the magazine page on the 12x18 sheet and tabloid is just a smidge too small for our magazine. But for 11x14 you could probably mark your edges using tabloid paper depending on the printer. And if needed borderless you could easily cut the tabloid paper down to 11x14 quicker that waiting for a photographic inkjet printer to print the next page.

Xerox and HP make some good tabloid color laser printers but the up front cost to purchase the printer would be higher with the cost of supplies probably being lower. We use a Xerox Phaser 7760 color printer that prints up to tabloid extra size (12x18). It was $4k about 10 years ago and is still running strong. Because it is no longer made the toner has become very expensive ($500 for cyan, magenta and yellow and $200 for black). For reference, our Xerox will print around 5,000 pages of tabloid extra per color toner cartridge and other parts are user serviceable also. There are "transfer rollers" for each of the four toners and a single fuser that are user replaceable.

Try to estimate your costs as you do your research and remember that 2 minutes per page is agonizingly slow in an office workflow. I personally own a Canon Pro 100 and do not mind going to get a glass of water (and drinking it) while my photography prints print. If you do opt for an inkjet photography printer you should look at ones with larger ink cartridges as that will be less costly over time than ones with small ink cartridges like the consumer level Pro 100.

Now that was a good and illuminating read! Thank you for posting it.

This guy seems to be trying to make a point to home users without his facts being correct in some instances. I am currently paid up on my home Photography Plan through Feb 2024 at roughly $100 per year. I buy a year or more whenever it goes on sale at B&H and just add another year to my subscription. And the subscription is measured by time to expiration so I am not going to experience any price increases for the duration of my paid subscription. I do not know where he got the $179 dollar per year option but he is overpaying. And at $8.50 a month it is less than 2 Starbuck's coffees!

And I doubt that the home non-professional user is Adobe's bread and butter. Professionals who use it for Design (page layout for magazines and advertising), Photography and Illustration would not be without this software. We are still using Creative Suite 6 where I work because we have lots of software that is not native 64bit. We are still using macOS Sierra. We own one license for Creative Cloud Suite in order to back save files that come from outside sources.

And from my experience Adobe's support is great. I recently had some work iMacs that had an issue with Adobe Acrobat (the pdf creation software) where it would crash after 5 seconds on Macs with macOS Sierra after an OS X update. I attempted to reinstall the software and was unsuccessful because the installer still saw Acrobat as being installed. I contacted Adobe over the phone and a technician remoted into the iMac and had the same issue I had. She spent three hours on this problem and eventually the issue was resolved. I saved the software tools that the technician downloaded to the iMac and applied the fix to all of our other Macs. Remember that CS6 is probably nine year old software at this point!!!

So consider me unimpressed with his argument.

And if you too want to buy it when it is on sale at B&H just create a "Wish List" and place the download version and the mailed out scratch off card versions in that Wish List and you will get an email from B&H when its price drops below $120. California has no tax on downloaded software and if I use my PayBoo card for the scratch off card B&H pays the tax for me.

I had downloaded the manual and read it completely a few months ago. I will do so again and try the trial version to see if I can find any improvements over printing from Lightroom. And at $70 it is not expensive if it is an improvement over Lightroom's results.

Beautiful!

In my experience, when a file is corrupt it will not contain any useful information and will not be readable. I would vote for an intermittent issue with the camera and not a problem with the SD card. Format and use that card again for some test shots that you do not need and see if the problem happens again. Do the black images have roughly the same file size as the first 100 shots?

Yes, but couldn't Sony provide this proprietary "AI" pixel adding algorithm to Sony users in its proprietary RAW editing software. One could then use it on any part of the image one cropped to or the whole image if one wanted to. It seems that would be a better and more useful tool. It does not seem this "AI" algorithm would need to be applied in camera but could be applied at the point in the process where one is editing the file at their computer.

I agree that what modern digital cameras do is amazing!

I am curious what you believe it offers above and beyond what Lightroom offers? Does it somehow make better prints or is it just the paper saving (automatic placement) feature and ability to remember your printer settings for different papers/printers?

The price is reasonable if it does make better prints.

Many here at UHH recommend Qimage Ultimate 2020 from ddisoftware, Inc.
I will be watching this thread to see if anyone comes up with any reasons that I might think are important. It has some features that are "nice" but seems to be for those who print "a lot". I currently use Lightroom for my printing. I read the Qimage manual and did not find any features that were important to my limited printing needs.