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[Digital BW] Re: Creating Paper/Ink database?

2001-09-02 by Mark Tucker

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., "Antonis Ricos" 
> This has been discussed - and in fact done for earlier 
versions. The problem 
> is that it is unwieldy. There are too many records (near 200) 
and about 100 
> fields for each!


Unbelievable... This is quite an undertaking.

Respectfully, it might be interesting though to have a much 
smaller, interactive version in somewhat of a universal format. 
Just for curiosity to see what we could accomplish as a group.

It could be as simple as: "Which are the best papers for printing 
highly-detailed photographs on glossy paper?" And the answer 
could be the top three papers; not us commiting to one. But even 
to be able to immediately narrow the choices down to three 
papers, right off the bat, could be very helpful to someone. With 
all the choices now, it can get overwhelming.

It could even be YahooGroups-based, just using the Tables 
function within this website. That way, it wouldn't require 
downloading. But even then, they offer a printer-friendly 
conversion that is very easy to download.

I'm not at all questioning your database. But boy, you bit off a big 
chunk with those kinds of features. I'm just curious what we 
could do as a group.

-Mark

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