Yes - I am absolutely sure that it was not in the master copy because I made a complete fool of myself telling him that he should have printed one copy and photocpied it. He said that is what had been done. I said "no way" or words to that effect and he said that as he had done it himself, personally, ...
So I learnt something about photocopiers! Laurie ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2002 12:49 PM Subject: [abcusers] Re: Antialiasing Laurie wrote: >One favourite trick of ink-jet printers is to develop a blocked >jet and this can do horrible things to horizontal lines of >staffs. You tend to notice them at gigs when you suddenly >realise the music is unreadable. Top or bottom lines are deadly, >but the in-between ones are pretty bad too. I thought that >photocopiers were immune to this, but I recently went to a >workshop where the chap who ran it (Dave Brown) had printed one >master copy of the music and photocopied it many times to hand >out to the participants. He described it as a "high quality" >photocopier. It must have been a really high-tech one that >rasterised the image. It also must have had the page >horizontally aligned to high precision because it managed to >lose staff lines. On one page you could actually see the line >fading out as it went across the page and on another (presumably >later) copy of the same page there was no trace of it at all. > >A little mis-alignment would have worked wonders! To me it sounds much more likely that the flaw was in the master copy. Are you sure this wasn't the case? ______ /\/\/\/\ <______> | | | | | David Barnert <______> | | | | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <______> | | | | | Albany, N.Y. <______> \/\/\/\/ Ventilator Concertina Bellows Bellows (Vocation) (Avocation) To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
