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Since they are plotting it, they must have a digital original. If CalTech
allows it, why not include a CD, perhaps with a TIFF or BMP image(s)
generated from their original GIS or CAD system formatted data? The original
GIS/CAD format is probably not such a good idea for publication, but there
should be backwards support for ISO 9660 and BMP or TIFF for the foreseable
future.
Anyway, it's a non-fading medium :-) and rotected inside a book, should last
a long time.
...steve smyth ([log in to unmask])
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim O'Donnell [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, February 27, 1998 10:39 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Large-scale reasonably-priced color repro?
>
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> Greetings, MapFolks:
>
> I have two grad students rapidly approaching defense who have come to me
> with this situation:
>
> They both are going to have large format color geologic maps in their
> theses, and they intend to produce them on a color plotter here. However,
> their experience is that the plotter color will begin to fade instantly,
> and they're wondering about reproducing the plates from the plotter output
> in some other more stable technology. These will be your standard
> geologic
> maps, although one is an 85" long cross-section.
>
> I went to look at my copy of the Geologic Map of Kansas (as you probably
> know the 1991+ 'editions' of this map are done one-off on a color plotter,
> and I wondered how that color was holding up), only to discover that the
> order was never quite completed, so I can't look at it. Can anybody else
> assess for me about how that's holding up? It could be that these guys
> are
> overly critical about the durability of the inks off the plotter, but I'm
> thrilled that they're concerned about the archival quality!
>
> I don't think I've been keeping up on the technology. Can anybody help?
> What's out there in terms of reasonably-priced large-format color
> reproduction that would be able to deal with this kind of material? Is
> there now a color version of the large-format b/w photocopiers that we've
> gotten so used to?
>
> Thanks in advance for all your help. Respond to the group if you like, or
> to me personally and I'll summarize.
>
> Jim
>
>
>
>
> Jim O'Donnell
> Geological & Planetary Sciences Librarian
> California Institute of Technology
> 100-23
> Pasadena, California 91125
> 626/395-2199
> fax: 626/568-0935
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