Wire To Ink

[superflow]

Okay, last one of these before the holidays. Just wanted to drop this idea

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[mrs_silmarwen]

Just in case I won't catch you: Merry Christmas!

*smooches*

[kostika]

Good idea. Makes me want to do it. But unfortunately, I have nothign to write about that the world neds to see.

[wyldkyss]

I fear you and I are in the same boat. We're too boring for print.

Shall we pout prettily together?

[kostika]

I'm not too boring. Just don't have anything to say that would make the world stand up and listen.

So I'll settle for pouting prettily.

[superflow]

Quit with the pouting, the pair of you.

[omokage]

That's funny. Just lately I had been brainstorming extra-internet media opportunities for OPi8.com and her content.

One such idea was to have a gallery exhibition for OPi8.com artists. This idea is gaining a lot of steam as I am getting artists on board for such a show.

Another was to produce a monthly print-out, PDF edition of OPi8.com. Content is coming to the site regularly enought to justify a fair amount of pages for a PDF, the only hurdle is the contributor's consent.

As soon as I get the mechanism in place for publishing to PDF, I'll amend the submission agreement to let the contributors know that I plan on releasing their work in pseudo-print.

[labrynthos]

Size may be an issue for those who work with images. For b/w comics printed directly off the web, even for an A5 size sheet the images would need to be at least 150dpi, ideally 300 to get a nice crisp look in print.

[hyalin]

Size isn't that much of an issue. A 996 x 341 pixel B&W PNG only takes up about 150 kilobytes. There's also the advantage of having it as simple as possible so you can scale it later.

[transient_poet]

Change the aesthetic to fit the medium. I am thinking of old punk zines where the print method was cheap photocopy. The artwork was tailored to maximize the impact of the print medium itself. But I'm a designer so I have to think like that all the time. "You have cardboard and a crayon, GO!"

[labrynthos]

When I Design (and professionally too, I might add), my aesthetic tends towards high contrast and high detail, or the exact opposite. High detail can work on cheap paper; just look at the japanese telephone book size manga publications, they're all on pulp, and some of the work is very detailed. They're using off-set printing, but I'm looking to work that way with the average ink-jet printer keeping in mind that some of the audience may be on a 56k (or less) modem so file size is an issue. Though I meant ppi rather than dpi. Most in the audience probably wouldn't be using a printer or software that allows for adjusting dpi easily. It can be done, the designer just needs to find the right balance.

[leftoftheedge]

Does anyone know a site that'll freehost .doc or .rft files?

- Techno-illiterate l.o.t.e.

[jeffx]

I am willing to host some content for people. I have plenty of hard drive space and a great deal of bandwidth unused.

[leftoftheedge]

Cheers, I may take you up on that.