Out taking photos for a bit! Some galleries are likely to begin appearing in a week or two.
Rick On Sun, May 19, 2019 at 07:30 Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
