On Apr 29, 2006, at 7:59 PM, John Howell wrote:
At 4:45 PM -0400 4/28/06, Kim Patrick Clow wrote:
I've done some testing with 8.5 X 11.0 paper and A4 paper for
creating booklets. The music just seems awfully crampt at those sizes
of paper.
Unfortunately in the US, most copy shops only have 11 X 17 inch
paper, which rules out doing a bi-fold. I'd have to rely on some sort
of spiral bounding, which can look kind of tacky.
I use 11 x 17" paper for bifolds (i.e. 4 pages per sheet) all the
time, stapled, both for scores and long individual parts. Perhaps I
don't understand your question. My music is never cramped because I
lay it out not to be (and to have good page turns when humanly
possible).
The problem for me was not finding the paper (I went to a manufacturer
and ordered the size I needed) but finding a printer that could handle
paper that large, and of adequate thickness! Indeed, before I even had
the printer, I would print up parts on single pages, then photocopy
them onto bifolds, which still would get rather expensive for oversized
paper.
For my HP 5100, 28 lb paper is the thickest that can be handled, and
even that has to be fed through the straight paper path, so I can't use
the trays.
12.8 X 18.5 inch paper is the largest it will handle (again, only
through the manual paper feed) which will give a 9.25 X 12.8 (or 12.5
which is more usual) page folded. This is an acceptable size for
orchestra parts.
Any printer that handles larger paper than that was so much more
expensive that I couldn't afford it.
Christopher
_______________________________________________
Finale mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
