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Subject:        USGS sending plotted not printed quads?
Date:   Wed, 7 Dec 2005
From:   Jon Jablonski <[log in to unmask]>
To:     Maps, Air Photo & Geospatial Systems Forum <[log in to unmask]>


I recently received a shipment of USGS 7.5' topos from a private map
vendor after waiting several months for a USGS order that got lost.
Approximately a third of the maps appeared to have come off of a plotter
or other ink-jet type of printer.  Essentially:  they looked like DRGs
output to a mid-grade printer.  They were most definitely NOT the product
of offset lithography.

Has anyone else experienced this?  When ordering, is there any way to
specify 'don't send the crappy ones'?  Has enyone encountered a vendor who
is willing to do this.

-dis-satisfied customer in Oregon.
 Jon Jablonski
 MAP/GIS Librarian, University of Oregon.




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