NOAA One-Pager for CRRC

Today I formatted a one-pager for CRRC that Kim worked on with Bill Lehr.  I did it in InDesign, natch, because I’m trying to transition completely away from WordPerfect.  It seems to work out well since the pdfs are perfect to send out and they print well.  Although, this one had to print at Standard quality since High quality was very dark.  I haven’t figured out yet why sometime Standard is better and other times it leaves all the graphics looking speckeled and fuzzy. 

Anyway, I kept the design pretty simple but changed up the look a bit from the regular one-pager so it won’t be so confusing.  I think it’s a little top-heavy but Kim is happy with it. For now, it’s in a directory I made under CRRC Promotions called “center one-pager lehr” for lack of any better name.

CRRC Annual Report

The annual report was delivered on Monday…as promised!  Paul Roberts at UNH Printing farmed it out to Ram Printing because we gave them so little time.  I have to say, they did a fantastic job.  Maybe because they’re so big or because they print all 4 colors at once (Paul told me the UNH press only prints 2 colors).  The blue is a dead match for my Pantone swatch (539) and is consistent all the way through.  I’m happy to go back to UNH printing our stuff but this turned out so much better than I expected. We did go with the Chorus Art paper with varnishing.  Hopefully it will not scuff.

Printing to the Plotter

Before I forget…I had to print posters for the CRRC Arctic Summit last Friday.  As always, printing to the plotter was fraught with difficulties.  First, since the plotter is no longer wireless, a laptop is required.  I got a laptop from CRRC (#7).  I downloaded the drivers from the ERG Printer webpage but the rest of the directions are WRONG.  They are for loading the plotter as a wireless printer which can no longer be done. I connected the laptop to the plotter with the USB cable and the laptop detected “new hardware” and installed it (with the previously downloaded drivers).  Easy enough but it would have saved so much confusion and frustration if the directions on the ERG web page were RIGHT.

Since I was printing a poster of the workshop goal which I’d already created as a handout in InDesign. I just created a new size (18 x 24) under Custom Size and checked “fit to printable area.”  Worked beautifully.

CRRC Notecards

I’ve had such problems printing these notecards.  To eliminate the problem of light stripes, I changed to the design that’s mostly white with a small logo on the front.  They won’t print on my printer at all anymore so I send them to Maddy’s printer (Xerox 8400).  The design colors were modified accordingly.  Today I printed 35 by printing the outside design (photoshop file) first, then manually flipping them and feeding them back through the by-pass feed to print the inside.  It wasn’t perfect (there were several jams ) but, all and all, it was doable.  However, the printer is definitely showing signs of wear.