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Re: [AGA-mcm] followup on Amano documents
Cool! Great job!
Karen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Erik Olson" <erik@thekrib.com>
To: <aga-mcm@thekrib.com>
Cc: <aga-contest@thekrib.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2004 2:00 AM
Subject: [AGA-mcm] followup on Amano documents
> [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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