[pct-l] maps, printing thereof

[greg mushial]

> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 17:46:39 +0000 (UTC)
> From: Jim & Jane Moody <moodyjj at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] Maps
> To: dan kayser <yoyodadio at msn.com>
> Cc: PCT <pct-l at backcountry.net>
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> Halfmile has arranged for a print shop in Portland to laser-print the 
> entire set on 8.5" x 11", front and back.? These are less vulnerable to 
> water smearing and weigh 1/2 as much as printing on one side only.? With 
> shipping, it was? $90 .? Worth every penny.
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Halfmile yet again proves he's a cut above. :-)   But just kind of as a 
heads-up: I ended up buying a color laser printer from NewEgg for $140 18 
months ago, use it only for printing those things which really need to be 
done in color, eg, HalfMile's maps [the rest goes to one of two b/w 
lasers]...  and it's still running on the original cartridges [probably run 
2 bricks of paper through it at this point ~1000 pages], as such, has proved 
quite cost effective. One advantage of it being a laser - the paper gives up 
before the "ink" does, unlike inkjets - as such have no reservations about 
carrying maps in a shirt pocket (think: sweaty shirt pocket). In my case the 
printer is a brother hl-4040cdn, and the good price was because of a 24 hour 
sale - though recently I've seen them in the $150 range... But there are 
quite a few other bottom-end color lasers available now-a-days [too many 
people have grown tired of the ink-cartridge rip-off pricing game].
TheDuck