Abstract: An article of manufacture for providing a quick and dry decoy retrieval device includes a decoy body shaped as a waterfowl, an anchor line having an upper end and a lower end, an anchor weight coupled to the lower end of the anchor line, the anchor weight and the lower end are below the underside surface, and a finger retrieval loop coupled to the upper end. The decoy body having an upper surface, a head, an underside surface, and a waterfowl decoy keel, and a concealment cavity located in the top surface behind the head, an anchor line channel running from an entry point within the concealment cavity to an exit point on the underside surface about the waterfowl decoy keel. The anchor line being routed through the anchor line channel. The finger retrieval loop being concealed within the concealment cavity when the upper end e is about the entry.

Abstract: Methods of printing a desired color image on a printing medium by construction from individual ink drops deposited in pixel arrays includes passing a multiple-nozzle ink-discharging pen or an odd number of staggered pen cartridges across the medium multiple times, each pass creating a portion of a respective segment of the image, and periodically advancing the medium so that portions of successively different segments are created by the pen(s). During each pass, the “portion-creating” function includes discharging from the pen(s) an odd submultiple of the full density of ink desired in the segment of the desired image that is being created, so that printing full density in each segment requires an odd number of passes. The medium is advanced by an odd submultiple of the height of the segment being created in each pass and is preferably advanced after each pass of the pen(s). The portion-creating includes creation by the pen(s) of a multiplicity of spaced-apart diagonal lines.

Abstract: A method of printing a desired color image on a printing medium by construction from individual ink drops deposited in pixel arrays includes passing a multiple-nozzle ink-discharging pen across the medium multiple times, each pass creating a portion of a respective segment of the image, and periodically advancing the medium so that the pen creates portions of successively different segments. During each pass, the "portion-creating" function includes discharging from the pen an odd submultiple of the full density of ink desired in the segment of the desired image that is being created, so that printing full density in each segment requires an odd number of passes, preferably three. The medium is advanced by an odd submultiple of the height of the segment being created in each pass and is preferably advanced after each pass of the pen. For the preferred three passes, the odd submultiple of the height of the segment is preferably one-third.