Digital BW, The Print

Antonis - no good deed goes unpunished! :-)

My experiences so far suggest a few basic guidelines:

- insert your prints/info sheets into individial print sleeves, this 
makes the sort easier and quicker and keeps your prints in better 
shape
- If you're in the US, UPS will let you set up an account via their 
web site with to/from label printing all charged to your credit card
- I'll give everyone a good lead time but please start printing 
ahead of time so you don't have to quit the exchange at the deadline
- I'll send email reminders/confirmations instead of just posting to 
the group
- I'll wait a day or two to see what everyone is telling me they can 
contribute before locking down specific media "groups", I don't 
think it makes sense to make the process super long; let's see 
though.
- 8.5X11 or A4 makes things so much easier but if everyone want 
13X19 (gulp) it is possible! I imagine this would be a smaller group 
though.

Off list emails for registration please and for everyones info, I 
have 10 participants with some variety in inkjet printing methods 
already interested after only 12 hours!

I'm in Vancouver, Canada but my plan is to designate my office in 
Washington State the ship to/from location to minimise border 
transit - of course it would be nice to have y'all walk a mile in my 
shoes ;-)

Best,

Shaun Granleese




--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Antonis Ricos" 
<antonisphoto@y...> wrote:
> Shaun,
> 
> you have become the defacto leader in this! When Martin and I 
discussed it 
> we thought it was too early for the list to have enough momentum. 
We didn't 
> expect over 300 people in a month. In fact, today is exactly the 
30-day mark.
> 
> Since you brought it up first, I can only happily offer my 
moderator blessings 
> (!) and my desire to participate (if there is room, that is!). 
I "only" have Piezo to 
> offer, no exotic digital variant, so in the interest of allowing 
other forms of 
> printing to be shown I could be a back up for one of the piezo 
positions - if 
> that's how you decide to run this.
> 
> Before you go too far, there will be a need to decide on size, or 
at least a size 
> "not to exceed". For practical reasons 8.5x11 or metric equivalent 
makes 
> transport easier, but if there is a majority that wants to set a 
larger maximum, 
> you should explore it now.
> 
> Also, you may consider a small and a large group (10 and 30?) to 
allow for 
> those who for various reasons would find 30 too many copies to 
make.
> 
> And by all means, let's all ASK JASON first !!!  <BG>
> 
> Antonis
> 
> 
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., shaun@s... wrote:
> > Martin - 
> > 
> > those are some terrific extra details; I've made an assumption 
that, 
> > by definition, this group would produce a more diverse exchange 
than 
> > the PiezoBW group. I'll think on this though.
> 
> ......