Sean-
I am pleased to report that I ordered two
Wikipedia tile coasters from
CafePress on [[19 January]], and received them in perfect order on
[[23 January]]. A very smooth, satisfactory, and recommendable
transaction.
How is the quality of the coasters? Is the text recognizable, are there
any pixelization effects?
For those who haven't seen the coaster at the CafePress site, it is a
tile some 11.5cm (4.5 inches) square, showing a Wikipedia edit window
in the Cologne Blue style, editing the [[Editing Wikipedia]] article.
The edit summary is "Wikipedia rocks!"
I didn't notice when I ordered, but the Wikipedia logo is the old
quote-ball, not the new puzzle-ball.
The edit text box is barely 6cm (2.35 inches) tall and holds 31 lines
of text. I haven't seen text that small since I refinanced my house.
It is readable at the moment, even with my several-decades-old
eyeballs, but I seriously doubt that it will remain so after a few
months of impacts from mug bottoms. Even now, the text is blurred
(not pixellated) in places, an effect somewhat like the output of a
laser printer that is running out of toner.
On the other hand, the blue of the sidebar menu is vivid, the swollen
lines of text in the quote-ball logo are recognizable as text (tho it
cannot be read) and the tile itself is decent quality. For less than
$10 each, I am satisfied.
However, I must warn those of sensitive social consciousnesses that
these coasters were made in China.
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Sean Barrett | I'm not bad, I'm just drawn
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