[Sigia-l] Fun with output - Who uses a plotter?

[Leona Carpenter]

On 11x17 paper (roughly equals European A3?) you can do great things with
coloured pens.

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Leona Carpenter
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Saffer, Dan" <DSaffer at datek.com>
To: <Sigia-l at asis.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 6:45 PM
Subject: RE: [Sigia-l] Fun with output - Who uses a plotter?


One of the first things I did when I got to my current job was to order
11x17 paper. :) It's nearly impossible to convey a design (and especially
the accompanying annotations) and not have it be microscopic on anything
less.

Of course, since there is only one black-and-white printer that will print
that size in-house, it is limiting and often difficult to share documents
with people, both in and out of house. Few have access to the printer, and
fewer still even have 11x17 paper to print it on!

If I moved to 8.5x11, everything would either be too small for
comprehension, or else I'd have to move the annotations to a separate page,
neither of which is ideal, so I stick with the bigger size despite the
printing hassles.

I've also had trouble finding a reasonable home printer that will print
11x17, perferably color. Anyone have any suggestions?

Dan

d a n   s a f f e r  .  sr. ui architect
datek                .  dsaffer at datek.com

"there's a lot of things
 if I could I'd rearrange." -U2
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