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Oops. One of the perils of typecasting is that you sometimes name images the same thing, and overwrite them. Thus note that the original typecast that once appeared here has been overwritten by images that have nothing to do with this post:
Note: Olivander just added the following comment related to scanning photos: "Unless you'll be printing this thing on a color-separated web press (answer: no), halftoning the photos is probably the last thing you want to do. For most printing processes, 120dpi will come out nicely."
<---- By the way, information about the typewriter journal is in the link in the left margin of this site. No, not there. Look higher. Toward the top of the page.
Halftone trickery
Banning the Big Black Box
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This makes me feel a lot better about not having started on paper yet. In my head, it's all coming together in a blinding crash.
The notecards are awesome, btw.
Unless you'll be printing this thing on a color-separated web press, halftoning the photos is probably the last thing you want to do. For most printing processes, 120dpi will come out nicely.
Thanks Olivander, I added your comment to the post.
Saving standards? Phew, that's a tough one. They certainly require a bit more space and are more of a presence than portables, like the difference between adopting a stray kitten and going the Siegfried and Roy route and bringing in tigers. Like the tigers, those standards are endangered, and probably at risk for poaching if left in the wild to fend for themselves. You've seen the ticky-tacky jewelry, you know what happens.
That said, just bringing one into the house would be an issue, but four at once may be grounds for divorce. I passed up a Royal KMG just like my own at Goodwill (with the tombstone-shaped keys.) It is a great machine, but I already have a standard at home and one at work, and portables tucked into most crevices in both places. There's nothing like them, though, and they're truly great for typing. And practically indestructible, even to a child's hand.
Hrm. Maybe a foster program? Just don't name them or crochet any covers for them, or you'll never be able to let go.
I must say I have re written my entry several times now and keep finding something wrong with it. I find something small and have to re write. Who knew LOL. I am sure I will have a perfect copy soon though. Don't make me break out the Selectric
So...what kind of standard typewriters are we talking about here? I'd think that would make a big difference in the whole adoption "should I or shouldn't I?" question.
Dang, that was a rambling sentence.
Which may be while the word verification is "tershno." I ish not tersh. No.
On another subject...I want those index cards! I have some colored ones, but they're very pale. If those are indeed that bright...I need.
Take. The. Typewriters. The next time you wander down here for a family visit, you can bring one to me. I'll take it off your hands.
I have to wade through a lot of scribbling and focus on my submission. I've been lollygagging lately.
The word verification is "messes." I'm not making that up.
Take a gander at the typewriters in question on my Flickr page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tiny-dog/ Note that I think they don't come with cases, and I am currently trying to determine if they even work. I am leaning toward fostering the typewriters with the idea that I will distribute them to the typewriting faithful at some point, assuming they are functional.
Even if they don't work, you can gain some good experience at typewriter repair! Standards are a lot roomier to work on than portables.
They're all keepers, Cheryl. Snag 'em. Take over the dining room table and call it an "art installation."
Yes- you can "redistribute the wealth," with these typewriters. I've done this, too. Right now, there's an enormous Underwood Typemaster parked in my livingroom, awaiting a recipient.
(And I make my recipients promise not to keychop.)
About the journal submission, I think I'll send in an 8 1/2 x 11" printed jpeg. If you like, I could also e-mail the file to you.
Speculator, if that's a Touchmaster 5, I'll gladly take it off your hands. Seriously.
I think you all have convinced me... if the person offering them makes good on her offer, I may just have to take them in.
Late to the party here, but:
after looking them over on Flickr, I agree. You have to take them. Right now my bedroom floor is littered with three (!) standard manual machines in various states of repair. Plus there's one more up on its stand. I have no idea what I'm going to do with these, but I know if I don't harbor them they'll be rusing in a landfill. Hoping to win another Typewriter Brigade convert or two this fall and adopt some of them out.
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