[Foundation-l] The reality of printing a poster

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
The economics of it are such that there is a real fine balance between cheap
and expensive. I positvely hate text on my posters. Printing on the back is
two prints and that IS expensive. My point has been and still is that it is
nice to come up with "solutions". They have to be practical in the real
world. If a proposed solution adds enough overhead, the effect will be that
it will not be accepted a solution.
Thanks,
       GerardM

2009/2/3 Michael Peel <email at mikepeel.net>

>
> On 2 Feb 2009, at 07:11, Gerard Meijssen wrote:
> >    - When I TELL you that something spoils a picture for me, you
> > can ignore
> >    this, or you accept this. When I have a framed picture I do not
> > want the
> >    license printed with it, I do not want a list of authors. I want
> > a clean
> >    picture just as it would be when I have it printed at my local
> > copy shop.
>
> Is this full stop, or meant in a specific way? Obviously, having the
> license, author list, etc. printed on top of the image is
> unacceptable. However, I've seen posters with a small white space at
> the bottom where the author name and copyright is given. I've also
> seen posters where the information is put on the back of the page.
> Would those options be acceptable?
>
> I have made a number of images available on the Wikimedia Commons
> under a CC-BY-SA license. I'm quite happy for people to print them
> off, so long as my name remains attached to them (i.e. I'm
> attributed, as per the license). It's easy to do this in an
> unobtrusive manner. I've so far been unable to find out whether the
> WMFR poster printing setup includes attribution or not; does anyone
> know the answer to this?
>
> Mike
>
> PS: To date, I'm aware of one of my images being printed out in
> poster form. In this case, I wasn't attributed - but in this specific
> case I don't mind because they sent me a copy of the print (there was
> a delivery mistake, and they got two copies). That was fine by me,
> but it would have been even nicer if I was attributed....
>
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