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Photoshop and Thermal Label Printing

February 21, 2023October 10, 2016 by S-Config

How we use labels when printing with thermal printers around the home/office.

A while back I did an article about thermal printer repair and I want to show you how I actually use it with printing labels. In the previous article, I was mostly focused on what to look for when you’re going through old equipment and how to repair some of these older but great machines, and all of the common defects that I have seen throughout the years. I still have my thermal printers and I use them for eBay. Lately, I had a reader e-mail me asking me what thermal programs do I use to print the labels that I do. Well, you’re in luck. Because I want to show you how to make a terminal printer work for you. Read on.

Previously

S the Badger – Character reference sheet.

December 16, 2022August 10, 2010 by S-Config

Badger Reference / Model sheet of “S”.

Currently, I just have a reference sheet done of my new badger character. clothing and more detail will come eventually. This is something I was working with and decided that perhaps a badger would be a better species set for me. Who knows. The model sheet with done entirely in photoshop using a %10 pressure soft-pen to emulate pencil and finally using the smart-brush for inking via mouse. this took a good day to complete. Not one of the fastest for a badger, but it’s something I wanted to be an accurate one. It’s also the icon I use on FurAffinity whenever I still go on there.

Saxon Viverredae – Color Artwork Character

December 16, 2022June 28, 2008 by S-Config

Saxon Viverredae

Mr. Viverredae was a project I wanted to try something different; And decided to draw a Binturong (Viverredae animal kingdom family) in an anthropomorphic form. It’s such a strange creature from Asia. Anyhow, here it is complete with lightwave backdrop of exploded city behind him!

Mindwar avatars.

November 2, 2019June 13, 2007 by S-Config

Mindwar Avatar line – gen 1 – by Riot Ornitz

The Mindwar product line was my attempt of getting into the avatar making business in Second Life. Understand that these avatars were done around 2007 and sculpts/mesh were not invented as of yet.

Second Life Riot Ornitz Gen 1 – Gryphon

November 2, 2019December 12, 2005 by S-Config

Avatars that Riot Ornitz wore – Gen 1 – Gryphon

Continuing from Gen 0 we go into the first furry avatar that I wore a Gryphon avatar which at the time no one sold gryphon avatars (or griffin depending on spelling)

Hellcat the feline

December 16, 2022September 1, 2005 by S-Config

Hellcat the feline.

Hellcat was another bit of a production I did in mid 2000’s trying to focus more of coloring and style. once again, from a profile sheet to poses sketch out to the final creations colored in Photoshop and rendered in Lightwave. This one I spent a bit of time on as it was one of my characters for the longest time in the 90’s. A lot of drawsings I could not calculate how long it took me. But I do know the background that was rendered out in LightWave took about 7 hours to do because I had it rendering at 600dpi.

Vinney the Vulture Character – Color Artwork

December 16, 2022October 13, 2001 by S-Config

Playing with a Vulture!

Toying with avian I decided to do a vulture. Not sure what i was thinking back then, probably too much cartoon network. anyhow, here it is!

Epic – Human Character

November 2, 2019March 30, 2001 by S-Config

Epic – A space scene

Epic is another color picture from my portfolio. This time a human! Yes, I know! I do draw them. Not as often as I should though. Epic was done with PhotoShop and lightwave 6.0. It was a little experiment to play with reflection in the background as well as an attempt to add some balance in my portfolio. This area will show from start to finish what I did on this one.

Rhino Head complete full Color Artwork

December 16, 2022December 2, 2000 by S-Config

Scraps of a rhino character made.

Rhino. For this sketch, I decided to ink and color and throw together a backdrop in lightwave using an array multiplier and then colored one of my quickly inked drawings on top. This species and type of character does not often get much for draw-time as they should. The basic inking was done with a pencil for the raw sketches. afterward, using a Sumi-E pen just for inking and to see how my pen was operating at the time.

Falling Down.

December 16, 2022November 7, 2000 by S-Config

Falling down fight scene.

Falling down is another color picture I did and for the time was one of the longest render scenes I did in Lightwave due to all of the reflections going on. Processed about a week on a pentium 2 300mhz. and the colored later in photoshop.