• ColorWise-San Francisco (415) 777-2626
• Blueprint Services (for black and white)
• Kinko’s for the blueprint machine (makes big posters out of small drafts)
• Gorilla Computing specializes in digital reductions, delivered via web, Acrobat or PowerPoint
• Jessica and Julien Landau competetive rates, fast turnaround times and great local (SF Bay area) references!

 Chart Reductions  Digital Cameras  Printers  Software  Other

• New York Times section on digital cameras (20 articles)
• Nikon 950 (2.1 pixels) or 990 (3.3 pixels)
• Sony DSC S-70 (3.3 pixels)
• Olympus D-400 Zoom
• Sony Mavica FD-90 - stills, video and audio

• HP Deskjet 895 CSE
• Epson color 900 - iMac compatable
• HP 1220 - Large format (11 x 17) color

• Photoshop
• Pixid (cleans up digital photos very quickly, easily and inexpensively; lose chalk effect though)
• Illustrator
• Corel Photo/Paint and Draw (competitor to Adobe and the standard instead of Adobe in Canada; equally good; has come with some Mac software deals)
• Corel Print House/ Photo House 5 – more wizards, formatted for easy use

• Wacom drawing tablet: pressure sensitive, comes in different sizes
• Zip drive and lots of disks (charts take up a lot of space)
• Scanner Ð Epson Perfection 1200 or 1200U (the U lets you scan from slides, negatives); UMAX PowerLook 2100XL (scans 11 x 17)

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