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

["Karen Randall" <krandall@rdrcpa.biz>]

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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