She must be buying painted canvasses. Needlepoint is inexpensive if you use a chart and plain canvas. I have only used two painted canvasses because they were Beth Russells on sale at a price I could not turn down. I found I did not like working with a painted canvas, it was all too easy to miss a stitch here and there working with the same coloured wool on a painted area. At the end of both, I held them to the light to track down stitches I had skipped.
The painted canvasses are an astronomical price, that's for sure.
Pdfs are cross-platform friendly. Applications are pretty choosy about writing pdfs, though. For instance, Excel will, but Word won't. Adobe would prefer that you bought their software to be able to write pdfs. If anyone could write them and the reader is free, where would Adobe make their money? ;-)
Too true! I, however, bought Adobe Acrobat (needed it for work) so I guess I wasn't aware of the restrictions. Of course if you were a designer and wanted to present to your public in this format, I'd recommend it. You can open and edit old pdfs, etc... very handy. No affiliation, yada, yada. ;-) Jeanine in Canada
Actually--the pdf solution staves off advances in the tech area. As operating systems change some of the new systems don't interface well with older versions. This is one way both Windows and Mac force people to upgrade their systems. Add to that they no longer have tech support for the older systems.
Actually if you take the pattern in to Illustrator first, remove the rastering than have adobe make the pdf --it goes quite quickly --as far as the whole design process goes. only adds maybe a full 20 minutes to the process.
As far as the cost of ink goes--That I have no control over that. And it would depend on your printer--weather it's a laser or ink jet, and how your color settings are. You run into the same problems when designing on a computer. You have to tweak your RGB values for each type of floss, fiber and ground. and as you know what shows up on the computer screen, printer paper and what thee floss color actually is can be quite different.
No actually they'd like to think that--but Microsoft threw a wrench in to that with it's new format. While still in the beta testing stage--it's going to be compatible with all formats but the RTF. LOL, Bill Gates just doesn't want to lose a single penny.
We had a devil of a time getting our data base (at work) to be compatible with all the different formats on servers. Got quite and educations on that little 2 year project.
Not picking on ya but oh does this sound funny.... =)
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What about misterinkjet.com ? I paid $20 for a set of color inks for my old Canon printer, and $20 for a quart of black ink. The printer died before I ran out of ink! I have a new Lexmark all in one now and when I need new ink, I'm headed to
So enjoy the computer without the printer. If printer cartridges are too expensive, don't print things out. How hard is that?
You may not have meant it that way, but it certainly comes across that your friend resented the gift because of the cost of ink cartridges, instead of being grateful for the parts she could use. I hope that's not the case.
My HP51510 has lovely print quality, prints using two cartridges at $40 for the two, and doesn't seem to suck up ink at the rate that your Epson does. So while your point about the cost of printing is well taken, I don't think you can generalize from your experience to the rest of the world. It clearly wouldn't cost me as much to print something as it costs you. There's also the convenience factor to be considered. I don't have to leave the house to print a pattern on my printer, nor do I have to pay shipping and handling charges.
Not intended as a generalization or sweeping indictment of home printing. Just mentioning the possibility for many of us. Printing at home isn't always as cheap as one might think. Nor is color rendition always reliable.
Not sure what that has to do with downloading patterns direct, or printing from CD's. I thought that's what we were talking about: paying more for patterns that are already printed, or the ability to purchase and print ourselves.
Yes, but color rendition is not always reliable on the pictures that accompany pre-printed patterns, either.
You don't see what not having to leave the house has to do with downloading patterns directly? If I'm figuring the price of a pattern that is already printed that I am purchashing, I need to also consider my time to go get the pattern at the store, or the cost of having it delivered to me. Those are costs which I should also consider when I am deciding if it would be cheaper to download a pattern directly. Given that, I would not like to download a pattern and take it somewhere to have it printed. Once again, I'd have to leave the house and spend time and gas to get somewhere, so the cost of download would have to be significantly less than purchasing pre-printed to make it worth it. There are extra factors on all sides that people aren't taking into account when trying to determine the most cost effective method of pattern delivery.
I actually prefer to purchase the leaflet, because I like going to the LNS and browsing. I also find that things I print off the computer tend to get lost in the jumble (poor organization on my part, but it's a factor to consider).
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