At 07:48 PM 1/22/04 -0700, Helen Bell wrote: >I personally prefer my patterns in one piece - partly because it's >difficult to get a perfect match on the 2 halves, when you're putting >them together (I'm one of those sticky tape challenged people that just >as you get them lined up and ready to put the tape on, one piece moves a >fraction, and by then you already have some of the tape in place :-) )
When I was editing a bicycle-club newsletter, the only tape I would allow anywhere near a reproduction copy was removable correction tape -- a strip of thin white paper with Post-It glue on the back. (The only brand I used was 3-M Post-It Correction & Cover-Up Tape, because that was the only brand there was at the time.) You don't have to get it right the first time, it doesn't damage the original -- at least not on the time scale of a newsletter -- and above all, it doesn't photocopy. Clear tape photocopies as a gray smudge, and the edges are so thick that they cast shadows that photocopy as thin black lines. Not to mention that images seen through tape are distorted even before the stickum begins to dissolve the ink. Rubber Cement -- Best Test White Rubber Cement from the art store: stationer's-shop rubber cement need not apply -- was good for repros that I meant to throw away as soon as the printer gave them back, but if stored, rubber cement sooner or later disappears into a brown stain on the paper and all the bits fall off. If I felt the need to keep such a collage, I took it to a reproduction-quality copy shop to make my file copy. Glue sticks were just coming in -- I recommended Post-It glue sticks to contributors because it's difficult to make a fatal mistake, but rubber cement is easier when you are putting twenty pages together. People who put twenty pages together every day had long since switched to waxing machines, which are easier to use once you get them warmed up, and do a better job that lasts longer -- which left me utterly baffled that Arlene's sold Best Test in gallon cans when I couldn't use up a four-ounce bottle before it spoiled -- and I once saw a customer leaving the store with as many of those gallon cans as he could carry. Whatever was he doing with it? Starting fires? -- Joy Beeson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where there's a duck in a puddle on the frozen lake -- taking a bath! I gotta get me some down underwear. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
