Robin Hamilton wrote:
>
> Josie:
>
> Just so that we don't get at cross-purposes, I'm talking cottage-industry
> here.
I know Robin
>
> Point. As well, the images I pulled from the Net are prolly copyright (your
> accountant would know) -- but I was doing quick-and-dirty on this.
Er _I_ am my accountant?
>
> And yes, it +costs+ to get properly trained in design and layout. But I DO
> rather object to paying through the nose (paying whom?) when I can (in even
> my own amateurish fashion) Do Better Myself.
I wasnt suggesting you were not capable - *taking foot out
of mouth*
> See above. I'm not arguing your Real-World Costings (add in, e.g., business
> rates on running a print-shop) -- but when laser-printers dropped below £200
> to produce an identical end-product, the ball-game changed.
Damned right. And now we have glicee prints and digital
printmaking and any fool with photoshop can make an image
using a scanner and the inbuilt 'features' of the program
and call it art. (present company excepted) This has been
the subject of many heated arguments on the printmaking
lists.
>
> You want to suffer, try writing an opera libretto. My hair stood on end
> when i discovered that one of your compatriots (You Know Who I Mean) was
> flogging off an opera she wrote (and I wrote the libretto for) for seventy
> five frigging aussie dollars. Really do wish i hadn't lost the contract
> that guaranteed me 7.5% of the royalties ...
I dont know who you mean, but I recognise your anger and
frustration, did you send out a 'contract' on her?
[funnily enough - mine own daughter gets occasionally
called demon-spawn, are
> > they related?]
>
> Almost certainly -- does your daughter knit?
Nope, but I'm very proud of her this morning, she just got a
job with a publisher!
> > Not _that_ kind of printmaker *chuckle* How much is he
> > payin?
>
> Paying? You're joking. I got lumbered for Chide as I have (for my sins) a
> laser printer and dave has an inkjet. Cost of consumables, and in an insane
> fit, I said, "I'll do it." But you could try him for a (free) > cover-illustration.
Nah, thanks but no thanks - too busy with other stuff - and
supposed to be resting in bed, doctors orders
Josephine
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