brightonpete
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Post by brightonpete on Nov 22, 2022 13:39:08 GMT
I scanned a White Ace page and made my own for the Prexies. Coils for some reason were more popular as pairs up here in Canada, so I wanted them as pairs, both plain and line pairs. It does look a bit different than the original, but I like how mine came out. The original page has a blue pen mark on it. I couldn't erase that, But I certainly did on MY pages!
White Ace did a great job on their pages!
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angore
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Post by angore on Nov 23, 2022 11:00:55 GMT
I sure liked the White Ace paper. If they old sold in reams of 250 or more at a decent price.
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Andy Pastuszak
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Post by Andy Pastuszak on Nov 23, 2022 18:37:41 GMT
I love White Ace albums. I used them for years. But they didn't quite fit my collecting style.
I want to collect one of every major Scott catalog number, and I want coil stamps as singles.
In order to get every major catalog number for White Ace, I needed to buy the regular set, which required you collect every se-tenant twice, one connected, one broken up. And that set did not include definitives. They are a separate supplement. Then I learned booklet stamps were a separate supplement. But I was not sure if booklet stamp singles were included in the definitive supplements. I know if you bought the booklet supplement, they wanted you to collect the whole booklet.
And my problem with the Scott National was the coil pairs.
I think my ideal album would be the Scott Minuteman, if it was printed on better paper. I emailed Amos about that a few years ago, asking them to offer the Minuteman on Scott National paper as a "print on demand" option on their website. The rep I spoke with that it was a "great idea." She emailed me back an hour later and told me management shot it down instantly.
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angore
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Post by angore on Nov 24, 2022 11:27:24 GMT
Scott (Amos Media) is not know for their fast acting flexibility. For example, they could have thought it would cannibalize Scott National sales as if there was a significant enough volume to cannibalize. I am sure Steiner (worldwide) and Mystic (US) has impacted their sales.
Of course, I gave up on the Scott National back in the early 1990s when I considered the supplement prices were high, I was constantly having to replace pages and remount stamps.
If Amos Media was for sale, I wonder if Mystic would try to buy them.
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Andy Pastuszak
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Post by Andy Pastuszak on Nov 25, 2022 4:21:16 GMT
Scott (Amos Media) is not know for their fast acting flexibility. For example, they could have thought it would cannibalize Scott National sales as if there was a significant enough volume to cannibalize. I am sure Steiner (worldwide) and Mystic (US) has impacted their sales. Of course, I gave up on the Scott National back in the early 1990s when I considered the supplement prices were high, I was constantly having to replace pages and remount stamps. If Amos Media was for sale, I wonder if Mystic would try to buy them. I'm sure Amos would want too much money for the "Scott Publishing" division. |
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angore
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Post by angore on Nov 25, 2022 11:04:44 GMT
I do not think they are making that much money these days.
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Andy Pastuszak
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Post by Andy Pastuszak on Nov 27, 2022 3:17:32 GMT
Ok to beat a dead horse here, this is my final solution (until it isn't).
I printed a bunch of pages on my laser printer and left them clamped for a week. And they did not completely straighten out. I checked my binder from the first set of Ukrainian pages and those pages were still curled more than I would like them be, even after sitting on a binder with other pages resting on them for around 5 years now.
So, I tried something else with the inkjet printer. I loaded Staples 32 lb. ivory colored laser printer paper in it and printed out my pages using the "Ultra high quality setting" and choosing the "matte photo presentation paper" setting and on greyscale. Each page takes longer to print, but the quality is really nice. And the page is completely flat. And 32 lb. is thick enough that the extra ink doesn't cause the paper to curl at all.
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angore
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Post by angore on Jan 13, 2023 12:17:26 GMT
For Andy, source: FOTI (found on the internet)  |
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Ryan
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Post by Ryan on Jan 14, 2023 3:26:18 GMT
In the last few days I discovered that Apple created a bunch of typefaces. One serif typeface is called New York. And there is a series of sans serif typefaces called San Francisco. Having always been a fan of typefaces such as Apple Garamond, I thought I would give them a try.
And I REALLY liked them. I had a period early on where I was a font fan, dating back to the purchase of a programmable dot-matrix printer for our TRS-80 computer in what must have been 1983 or so (the printer was an Epson FX-80 - you could program the use of each pin in the print head and if you were ambitious enough, you could create pretty much anything if you could figure out what pins needed to strike to get the image you wanted). I promptly set out and created a Gothic Old English font, spending who knows how many nights working on something we can get from a click of a mouse button today. Yeesh. Anyway, I'm late to the party here but I have to agree with michael - I like the open source font the best among the ones you've shown, especially for the serifed font. Learning how to program the printer for my own font design taught me a couple of things without actually getting any proper typographical training and one thing that always stuck with me was kerning - the word "Cossackdom" really bothers me on your first font choice, Apple's New York. The "k" and "d" are too close together and the "d" and "o" are way too far apart! It looks far better with the open source font you ended up choosing. And I am another who dislikes lower-case-sized numerals with ascenders or descenders! I have miserable eyesight and books that are printed with page numbers in that type of font sometimes leave me baffled as to what page I'm on. Ryan |
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