At 7:04 AM -0400 7/6/06, Phil Daley wrote:
At 7/5/2006 04:50 PM, John Howell wrote:
At 12:23 PM -0400 7/5/06, Phil Daley wrote:
At 7/5/2006 11:28 AM, Bruce E. Clausen wrote:
I've been hoping that I
could find an economical method of printing larger scores and parts, say
9x12, but the laser printing world only seems to go to 11x17, and
the larger
formats are inkjet and therefore less stable on the page.
Isn't 9x12 smaller than 11x17?
Sharp eyes, Phil! But 9 x 12 is a single page, 11 x 17 a double
page. 12 x 18 would be more accurate. But in my experience the
larger pages still make do with a plate size closer to 11 x 17 (or
actually 8 1/2 x 11) in quite a lot of cases. Larger page simply =
larger margins.
On my printer at work, we use 11x17 for bigger drawings ;-)
I have never seen anyone print a double page that size.
Why not print 2 single pages?
Maybe we need to define our terms? A printer is not a copier, nor
vice-versa. The technology I have access to is not exactly
state-of-the-art. Our departmental printer, networked to all our
computers, is business sized, printing 8 1/2 x 11, 8/1/2 x 14, and
recognizing A4. (A bit of a problem that. Some of my foreign
students apparently have their Page Setups set for A4 paper, and when
I send their files to the printer it recognizes that setting and
waits patiently for someone to feed it A4 paper, which I doubt we
could even purchase if we wanted to, thus stopping the printing queue
for everyone in the department!)
So, I have to "print" single pages of music. I then "copy" onto 11 x
17 paper on the copier, putting two pages on each side. Yes, I lose
a generation, but it's sufficient for my needs.
Our Community Band director has gone one step further, and had a
local print shop (NOT copy shop) order him heavy weight, opaque 11 x
17 paper, which is infinitely better than the flimsy 20-lb bond
that's easy and cheap to buy.
But we're both still stuck with the difference between printers and copiers.
John
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