Re: [AGA-mcm] RE: [AGA-Contest] followup on Amano documents (fwd)

["S. Hieber" <shieber@yahoo.com>]

I know Erik can do a top notch job on photo paper and the
costs will be minimal since his labor rate is far below
that of most commerical outfits ;-) 

I say let's give him the go ahead if he's willing to spend
the time. Where he gets the time, I'll never know.

sh
--- Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com> wrote:

> I will still offer to print the 8x10's on my printer. 
> It's an Epson 
> Photo Stylus 960, and is the same one used to print the
> name badges last 
> year.
> 
>    - Erik
> 
> On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, Bailin Shaw wrote:
> 
> > Okay.  So, that's not an unreasonable cost for the
> pics.  However, if we do 
> > have over 120 entrants, that comes out to be over $600
> in printing cost 
> > alone.  I don't know if that's really cost effective,
> although it would be 
> > quite impressive.  I still say we go with the 8X10 pics
> and do the cheaper 
> > printing or print on our own computer.  Unfortunately,
> I'm stuck for the time 
> > being since I'm in the process of getting a new
> computer, so the samples are 
> > on the old computer.  Old one finally choked and died
> on me this past week. 
> > Ugh.  :-(  Once I get the files transfered to my
> computer at work, I'll be 
> > sending some examples around for everyone's perusal and
> suggestions.
> >
> > Bailin
> >
> >> From: Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>
> >> Reply-To: AGA Aquascaping Contest Planning
> <aga-contest@thekrib.com>
> >> To: aga-contest@thekrib.com
> >> Subject: Re: [AGA-mcm] RE: [AGA-Contest] followup on
> Amano documents (fwd)
> >> Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 09:31:01 -0700 (PDT)
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> --
> >> Erik Olson
> >> erik at thekrib dot com
> >> 
> >> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> >> Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 12:06:44 -0400
> >> From: Karen Randall <krandall@rdrcpa.biz>
> >> Reply-To: AGA Advisory Committee <aga-mcm@thekrib.com>
> >> To: AGA Advisory Committee <aga-mcm@thekrib.com>
> >> Subject: Re: [AGA-mcm] RE: [AGA-Contest] followup on
> Amano documents
> >> 
> >> Hi Bailin,
> >> 
> >> If you do a bulk purchase from Dot Photo, you can get
> 11x14's at $5 each.
> >> (purchased in blocks of 10)  The web address is:
> >> 
> >> http://www.dotphoto.com/printplans.asp?TabLoc=4
> >> 
> >> Their print quality is quite good.  Not as good as if
> I do all my own
> >> tweaking on a good, photo printer at home, but very
> presentable, and larger
> >> than I can print at home!
> >> 
> >> Karen
> >> 
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Bailin Shaw" <bailin_shaw@hotmail.com>
> >> To: <aga-contest@thekrib.com>; <aga-mcm@thekrib.com>
> >> Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 12:12 AM
> >> Subject: [AGA-mcm] RE: [AGA-Contest] followup on Amano
> documents
> >> 
> >> 
> >>> Boy!  That's a great number for the contest.  I'm
> glad I'm not judging
> >> this
> >>> year.  Anyways, good to hear about the cost on the
> printing.  I haven't
> >> been
> >>> able to locate any place that prints larger photos
> for under $7.  So, I
> >>> think we either go the route of the 8.5X11 pictures
> or print on our
> >>> printers.  It's the most cost effective way of doing
> this.  If that's the
> >>> case, we need to think about layout and number of
> pictures to include in
> >>> each picture.  With an 8.5X11 print, I suggest we go
> with one picture and
> >> a
> >>> short description.  I can do a couple of sample
> layouts and we can decide
> >>> from there.  We need to make a decision soon since
> the convention isn't
> >> that
> >>> far away.
> >>> 
> >>> Bailin
> >>> 
> >>>> 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
> >>>> 
> >>>> --
> >>>> Erik Olson
> >>>> erik at thekrib dot com
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