Re: Color printed turn reports

From: madcentral@aol.com (MadCentral)

Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 09:09:43 +0000

>>I was implying hard copy yes. The reason being that we currently have a nice
color laser printer that we took out the lease on for other reasons and
we're keeping.<<

Unless its a really, really big colour laser, it *still* wont be fast enough
unless you're planning to run pretty small games.  Once you get several hundred
players receiving mail turns and need to get them all out as fast as possible,
the different between 32 pages per minute and 12 really gets pretty obvious.

Actually, I no longer do my own printing *at all*, I have it all printed at the
local copyshop on *really* high speed printers.

>> Just thinking of ways to use what we have at hand. It prints
about four double sided pages in a minute, so its not that slow.<<

Four duplex a minute?  We obviously have different ideas of slow.  That would
take three days to print the DungeonWorld mail players, and thats assuming
theres no printer jams, the ink doesnt run out and theres no other problems.
Yikes!

>>Are you finding people are preferring HTML or PDF?<<

They like whatever they are used to.  Our guys mostly hate HTML to start with
because they're used to PDF.  Then, I've had people join who've had experience
of Quest or similar who dont like PDF at all, because they're used to HTML.  I
like to offer both to cover all options.

>>By email that's understandable. I guess in some ways I'm trying to figure
out what the US mail market is like and whether there's any reason to focus
on it, or whether to look simply to electronic-based delivery of turn
results.<<

In my opinion, it is the kiss of death to offer *only* email turns, certainly
in the UK and Europe, maybe less so in the USA.  However, things are very
slowly moving so that this may not remain the case for that much longer.

Steve T.

References

Re: Color printed turn reports
"Jason Paul McCartan" <jasonm@mindshiftdesign.com>
Mon, 24 Jun 2002 00:55:49 +0000

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Re: Color printed turn reports
"Jason Paul McCartan" <jasonm@mindshiftdesign.com>
Mon, 24 Jun 2002 00:55:49 +0000