Printing & Copying

Ever had the "Too many copies are printed!" problem? Your customer wants to prints an invoice copy when posting invoices. So you set the Invoice Copies field on the Invocing tab of the Customer Card to 1.

Problem is, now the program will always print an invoice copy even when you manually reprint a posted invoice. Even though the option tab of the report shows No. Of Copies = 0 , a copy will be printed. If you change the No. Of Copies to 1, the system prints 2 copies, it doesn't make sense!

The happens because of the following line of code in the CopyLoop OnPreDataItem() trigger:

NoOfLoops := ABS(NoOfCopies) + Cust."Invoice Copies" + 1;

The system actually takes the sum of the No. of Copies on the option tab and the Invoice Copies on the Customer Card to calculate how many copies it will print, this makes it impossible no to print an invoice copy when reprinting posted invoices, which is probable not what you want.

I used the solution below which will use the Invoice Copies field on the customer card to calculate the no. of copies when posting and the No. of Copies on the option tab of the report when manually printing a posted invoice, not the sum of both.

In the The CopyLoop OnPreDataItem() I changed

NoOfLoops := ABS(NoOfCopies) + Cust."Invoice Copies" + 1;

to

IF blManuallyOpened THEN
  NoOfLoops := ABS(NoOfCopies) + 1
ELSE
  NoOfLoops := Cust."Invoice Copies" + 1;

And in the CopyLoop - OnOpenForm() trigger I added the following line:

blManuallyOpened := TRUE;

Since the CopyLoop - OnOpenForm() trigger is only run when you open the report manually, it will now use the info from the customer card to calculate copies when posting and the info from the option tab of the report to calculate copies when printing manually.

Below you see the screens where the no. of copies are set.

I ran across a fascinating Second Life merchant named THiNC last week. They make a variety of tools supporting backend functions in second life, notably, teleporters. it has been interesting exploring their tools, and apparently, a number of merchants and SLers use them. Someone was in the store earlier (unfortunately, not the owner) who was speaking Portuguese.

They also make a virtual printing press, pictured below:

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The printing press enables one to wrap text within the functionality of a virtual book. One can add textures, navigation features, and other goodies to make reading a realistic experience within second life.

I've been trying to line up an interview, but have not succeeded yet. As soon as I do, I will post the results. I'm curious to see what the creator has to say about virtual publishing in a virtual world.

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The Federal Reserve prints money, and then sells it.

On June 16th the Federal Reserve printed $75 billion and sold it for $89.38 billion to 76 different banks. The results were not released until the next day.

That comes out to an interest rate of 2.360% for the 28-day loans.

This is the 14th auction that has been held since December 2007.

The banks buy money and then loan it out... ummm, isn't that what the Federal Reserve just did?

Does the Federal Reserve even print the money? Do they need to?

Its all faith based anyway.

If you save your money you aren't paying attention.

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A couple of weeks ago, I wrote some posts about the base tone of paper.

Look here and here.

Or just have a look at my entire printer thread.

In one of these posts, I promised to make some tests on the different paper base tones, and I must say it confirmed my impression that the Harman Gloss is not as cold toned as many seems to think. Have a look at the picture below, and make up your own opinion which is warmer and which is colder, then have a look here and see which papers they are. You can also download a big psd file to see in you color managed viewer

PS.

Come one folks, do sign up for the print lottery. I actually do make rather nice prints, and after all, it's free. This is post 296. Once post 300 is published, the entry closes.

Twice a year I lay out a cute little catalog for a publisher friend, and I've been doing it for four or five years, so the files have gone through several software upgrades. They were originally supplied to me as Quark XPress 4.1 docs, and I probably kept it that way for one or two issues before converting it to InDesign CS. Then the files upgraded to CS2, and then the fonts upgraded to OpenType. For the latest issue, I started the job in CS2 at home (hello, my name is India, and I am a late adopter) and then made the final round of corrections at my office, using CS3. Everything preflighted okay, and I sent the printer both PDFs and application files.

Two weeks later, I got an excited message from our rep at Kromar. They'd had some problems with the files, which they'd taken care of, but their prepress guy wanted to tell me about it. Ooh, curious! So I called back immediately, and the nice man in Winnipeg tried to explain to me what had happened.
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Picasso was quoted as saying, "I don't find, I steal."  Well, I figured if he was stealing, I should too.  Right? 

I like to copy the works of artists I admire, from time to time.  I made this copy of Picasso's portrait of his companion Jacqueline Roque from a little photo I found in a book.  The way that he has turned her features into a design while preserving a likeness was something I found fascinating.  So I copied it.

I think that copying works by other artists is kind of like humming a tune you like.

[Top of the post:  Copy of Picasso's Portrait of Jacqueline Roque, by Aletha Kuschan, acrylic on canvas]

I had a great time today at the Demense Yard, Castlecomer with the 'South East Textile Group'.  We meet one Saturday a month and either one of the members or an invited guest hosts a workshop.  Today Jean (one of our founder members) showed us all how to create and use a lino print and in the afternoon we were using a printer to transfer images to a special medium and then iron them on to various fabrics. 

As my drawing is dreadful I decided to use the lino cutting as an opportunity to explore the possibilities of creating a tag or logo for my work.  I created a simple logo using my initials and some lines.  Once I had gouged out the lines a bit deeper than my first attempt I was very happy with the end result, thanks Jean for a great tutorial.

The printer here at Clasheen has just run out of ink so I jumped at the opportunity to use the group's new printer and transfer some images on to the special paper that Jean had brought.  Deciding not to draw anything myself, I used some fantastic images of African women from a recent issiue of a fashion magazine that I had.  Armed with these as I was going home, I spent the hour driving home planning how I would incorporate them into a piece of nuno felt.  My biggest concerns were should they be colour fast once I started to wet felt and would the image shrink too much and become unrecognisable once shrunk and fulled.  FANTASTIC success!!!  I wanted to experiment with a wallhanging so I ironed one of the images onto a piece of white muslin and then laid it on a large piece of apple green commercial needle felt.  This needlefelt is new to me and came from Wollknoll in Germany,  usually I would create any prefelt from scratch but have been wanting to experiment with larger pieces in a limited time frame.  I then laid out apple green, navy and marine blue merino on top of all but the actual image.  These colours were chosen as they picked out the main colours in the clothes the African ladies were wearing.  A little white and red wool to highlight and away I went and wet the wool.  No problems with the dye from my printed muslin running and because I had positioned the fabric on top of the needlefelt it did not actually distort too much when fulled.  I am so pleased with the result and hope to take a photo tomorrow once I decide whether to embellish the piece further or just leave it as it is.  I would welcome feedback if anyone feels like making a comment as soon as I post the image of the finished piece!

It was only a matter of time before Maribel Made, made its way into the diy web printing services out there, and Zazzle came to be easy and fast for publishing the new Mars Monkey illustrations I created based on the Mars Sock Monkeys soft toy product line (see my post, Sock monkeys + knitted sweaters = Mars Sock Monkeys).

If you're already a fan of the lovable monkeys, then you're really going to like the products I've lined up for my summer offering on my new Zazzle store at, http://www.zazzle.com/maribelmade. I've listed Mars Monkey Beach Totes, Buttons, T-shirts (in many sizes), and Mousepads! It's a Mars Monkey craze!

The great thing about Zazzle is that as a purchasing customer, you're able to customize each item to your liking, following a bit of the creators guidelines; like if the the design should be printed on a light or dark t-shirt. Other than that, it's really up to the buyer, but if you'd rather not do the customization yourself, I'd be very glad to personalize whatever item you'd like for you...just let me know. :)

These are some of the products available for sale...check them out! =D