Making postcards the way I do is a bit labor intensive, but the results are very nice.
I use Epson Hot Press Natural paper. It's got a very smooth, matte surface and is 330gsm weight … almost card stock (about 17 mil). The color is a lovely warm white that images both B&W and color with deep tones very nicely. My printer is an Epson P600. I print postcards four up on 8.5x11 sheets from Lightroom and trim to size them at 4 3/32" x 5 13/32" size. To print the postcards, I have a backside template and a frontside template in LR. I print the typical postcard guide lines and provenance on the backside first, placing and sizing it so that the typical "printer float" dimensionally allows me plenty of trimming leeway but not too much. I then print the frontside images, four up, and butt them together on the page. Once a run is all printed, I pull out the Rototrim and do all the trimming cuts. I've got tickets to see Deadmau5 in Hollywood and again in San Jose and San Franciso later in the year. :-) G > On May 18, 2019, at 7:56 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > I'm curious about how you go about making postcards. I experimented with > Costco poster board. > > After the crazy road trip delivering mom I hung out in Oregon a bit, and am > at the Portland Lindy exchange this weekend. Lots of great dancing to awesome > bands. > > On May 18, 2019 5:30:58 PM PDT, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Been working on making postcards for a postcard exchange all day. >> Deadline is Monday; I just picked the photo that I'll use... :-) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
