[Cdt-l] map printing tip

[Sly]

Hmmm ...  on Jonathan's site he recommends HP Presentation paper and I 
believe I used it in the past but I now have HP Premium paper (matte).   
It's going to have to do.

Sly

stumpknocker wrote:
> I ended up getting a $50.00 Lexmark x2600 that prints up to the 8.5x11 
> inch paper.  The $200.00 printer I was looking at before was one that 
> would print the 11x17 inch paper, which....after actually reading 
> Ley's suggestions (which I didn't see at first) and talking to 
> Greyhound (a friend from the AT '02 bunch), I decided I would do the 
> 8.5x11 size for printing out the maps.
>  
> The maps are coming out looking good.  The one question I still have 
> is about the paper.  Ley suggests presentation paper, which I bought.  
> I took a guess as to which to get because there is high gloss, low 
> gloss and matte presentation paper to choose from....I got the high 
> gloss. 
>  
> I'm printing out the CO maps first, since those will be supplemented 
> with the Trails Illustrated maps for that state.  I figured that would 
> be the best set of state maps to learn on and if I later find that 
> perhaps the matte paper would be better, I won't have to redo CO 
> because of the TI maps I'm getting for that state.
>  
> I'm off to get more ink and some food to get me through this process.  :-)
>
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