Re: Re: Re: Latest TAG

[Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>]

On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, by way of Neil Frank <nfrank@mindspring.com> wrote:

> On the subject of color printing of the contest results, I am not
> necessarily going to support the expense of printing them the way they were
> done last year. If we were going to print them, I would prefer fewer pics
> and larger ones(less white space).... even if it means a staple in the
> middle. When you get to my age, small pics dont cut it anymore! 
> --Neil

I think Mary was referring to the contest INSTRUCTIONS, which are black &
white.  Last year they were printed as a separate "letter size" insert
that was folded but not stapled into TAG.  This year I have gone through a
lot of work to reduce James' 9-page 8.5x11" monstrousity to a smaller
4-page 8.5"x5.5" brochure that can be included inside TAG and stapled.

Mary's printing of the results was rather bizarre, what with all the
whitespace and all.  She's sort of right about the whole "dpi" thing, but
sort of wrong (and I'm not going to go through THAT again!).  Note that
Dave Gomberg was able to print Frode Roe's winning entry at a larger size
in PAM recently, but it looks all out of focus.  This is what happens when
we print a picture that has too low a resolution (more realistically, what
ends up happening is that it looks pixelated).

I was OK with the sizes of the prints, but I would have preferred to see
them layed-out with less whitespace as well.  We could have saved at least
1/3 of the pages this way.  But you also have to understand that James was
very "clinical" about printing the results, rather than trying to make
something eye-catching.  So to him, everything needed to be shown in order
of place and category.

  - Erik

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Erik Olson
erik at thekrib dot com

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