Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 9:51 pm
OK, no posts or updates for the last 24 hours. It's ready to go. BP, I'm mailing the data stick to you tomorrow. Cheers, WC1
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Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 10:46 pm
Thanks, Cat. I will call your guy. Somehow once I get into the office, time disappears. Tomorrow should be slower. bp
Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 1:18 am
WC, the calendar looks awesome. Sorry, I was asleep at the tree again and haven't stopped by for a while. Would have been uber-cool to be on a calendar with these guys. I'll be more awake next year, promise.
But whatever the final cost of these turns out to be, I want three of 'em!
Murff
But whatever the final cost of these turns out to be, I want three of 'em!
Murff
Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 12:14 pm
You are at the top of the list for next year, Murff... bp
Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 5:56 pm
You got it, Murff. Sorry we missed the connection this year. Like BP said...next year you get in...Cheers. WC1
Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 7:30 pm
BP, I have everything on my computer that is on the data stick I'm sending to you. The basic run-down on what's on it...
1. a pdf file with notes for the printer, including file size (I suggested using the .tif file), color mode (RGB), document size (18X24) and I also indicated that the Photoshop Document has had all the layers named and all the text has been rasterized, so there will be no font "issues".
2. The Photoshop Document has 75 layers, after I went through and "cleaned it up", removed 15 or so layers that I had turned off before I flattened the image and made the tiff file out of it.
3. An .eps file (encapsulated post-script) and a .pdf file of the calendar, also this jpeg, which is 9" X 12".
I strongly suggest using Photoshop to print the calendar with. Some print shops use Production House, Poster Shop or another program other than the native program that the document was created in, and it often changes the color balance...if they use Photoshop, it will come out exactly as it is shown here. I used Photoshop 7.0, so it's a pretty safe bet that whoever prints it will have a later version installed and it will open smooth as silk.
One last thing I did before I copied my files to the data stick was I went up there and made the green lights on the starting tree brighter...
Cheers, WC1
1. a pdf file with notes for the printer, including file size (I suggested using the .tif file), color mode (RGB), document size (18X24) and I also indicated that the Photoshop Document has had all the layers named and all the text has been rasterized, so there will be no font "issues".
2. The Photoshop Document has 75 layers, after I went through and "cleaned it up", removed 15 or so layers that I had turned off before I flattened the image and made the tiff file out of it.
3. An .eps file (encapsulated post-script) and a .pdf file of the calendar, also this jpeg, which is 9" X 12".
I strongly suggest using Photoshop to print the calendar with. Some print shops use Production House, Poster Shop or another program other than the native program that the document was created in, and it often changes the color balance...if they use Photoshop, it will come out exactly as it is shown here. I used Photoshop 7.0, so it's a pretty safe bet that whoever prints it will have a later version installed and it will open smooth as silk.
One last thing I did before I copied my files to the data stick was I went up there and made the green lights on the starting tree brighter...
Cheers, WC1
Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 10:17 pm
' Cat, that calendar is flat out gorgeous.
Gimme-gimme-gimme!
Murff
Gimme-gimme-gimme!
Murff
Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 12:37 pm
Thank you, Murff...I did my best, and so did we all. We'll get 'em to you.
BP, I'm leaving for the Post Office here in a minute. The data stick will be in a bubble-lined envelope, should arrive no later than Tuesday.
I made a change or two to the files that will be on the stick...late last night I had a brain-fart and I decided we didn't need pdf or eps files on there.
What's on the stick now:
A 9" X 12" jpeg example, which is what I posted yesterday.
A single 18" X 24" tiff file of the calendar.
A Print File...2 calendars set up to run on 50" paper...it's a tiff file but I made a jpeg to show here. I made crop marks around both calendars, so that it will have a 1/2" white border all the way around it.
A pdf file with notes for printing from me.
That oughta get it. Here's what the print file will look like to the printer, except it will be 49.5" across at a size of 242 MB...
This will save setup time for the print shop and conserve as much paper as possible. They will open it in Photoshop and hit print and off it goes...
Cheers, WC1
BP, I'm leaving for the Post Office here in a minute. The data stick will be in a bubble-lined envelope, should arrive no later than Tuesday.
I made a change or two to the files that will be on the stick...late last night I had a brain-fart and I decided we didn't need pdf or eps files on there.
What's on the stick now:
A 9" X 12" jpeg example, which is what I posted yesterday.
A single 18" X 24" tiff file of the calendar.
A Print File...2 calendars set up to run on 50" paper...it's a tiff file but I made a jpeg to show here. I made crop marks around both calendars, so that it will have a 1/2" white border all the way around it.
A pdf file with notes for printing from me.
That oughta get it. Here's what the print file will look like to the printer, except it will be 49.5" across at a size of 242 MB...
This will save setup time for the print shop and conserve as much paper as possible. They will open it in Photoshop and hit print and off it goes...
Cheers, WC1
Very cool...
Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 2:18 pm
Awesome! 
Pete
Pete
Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 3:38 pm
Thanks, John. Can't wait to see it. bp