From: Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>
Reply-To: AGA Aquascaping Contest Planning <aga-contest@thekrib.com>
To: aga-mcm@thekrib.com
CC: aga-contest@thekrib.com
Subject: [AGA-Contest] followup on Amano documents
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 23:00:46 -0700 (PDT)
[For those on aga-contest... to bring you up-to-date, Amano's "people"
(Hayakawa-san) finally returned my e-mail of a week ago, and requested I
send them hard-copy of all the entries for judging. Was up until 1 AM last
night writing something to automate the generation of "pages" for each
entry, and requested extra AGA cash to pay for it all.]
Bought a bunch of inkjet carts today, and was able to easily print 103 of
the 124 pages in a couple of hours. I'm very pleased with the results --
it definitely shows off the aquascapes well. It also shows off the flaws
in the low-resolution submissions, but that can't be helped.
My printer uses individual color cartridges, and I've run through 5 already
on this job. I had to stop only because I went through two yellows and
didn't think to buy a third! Yesterday's estimate actually was pretty
good... 6 carts x $13 + $25 worth of paper is a little over $100.
The shipping is going to truly suck, though. 4lbs of anything to Japan
costs in the $70's if I go with DHL or UPS, so I'm going to use USPS
priority or air mail most likely, which is more like $25-30. It'll all go
out tomorrow. Yay, good to get this one finished.
A side point of all this work in the last 24 hours is that I now have a
nifty little tool to generate automatic page layouts (the final product is
a 124-page PDF). I may run this with the copyright-burned images so that
someone who buys the CD and wants to spend $100 on ink and paper can print
out "their own" AGA Contest 2004 Book! (I am also now pretty confident
that I (or anyone with a nice photo printer) could do the official 8x10's
for the convention for under $150...just one more piece of data for
Bailin.)
- Erik
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Erik Olson
erik at thekrib dot com
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