[Ubuntu Toronto] Ubuntu Posters Available!

[Dave Sullivan]

http://doc.ubuntu.com/~marketing/DIY%20Material/Batch%201,%
20Posters/UbuntuPosterbyHanZo.pdf

There's also a 21MB PNG:
http://doc.ubuntu.com/~marketing/DIY%20Material/Batch%201,%
20Posters/poster_flat.png

Pick one :)


On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 12:01 +0000, Cody Somerville wrote:
> When you get the high-res digital copy, can I get a copy so I can
> print some off down here in New Brunswick?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Cody A.W. Somerville
> 
> On 11/10/06, Dave Sullivan <dave at dave-sullivan.com> wrote:
>         Indeed, I agree... however, this is just a test run, and
>         someone had
>         already printed them, so why not support the cause? If they're
>         popular,
>         then sure, I'll get my hands on the high-res digital copy and
>         print a
>         bunch off for marketing and/or distribution purposes. These
>         posters were 
>         printed by another Ubuntu user/member of the marketing team
>         who is
>         putting the profits into other Ubuntu projects and donating
>         the rest to
>         Ubuntu, so I felt that by purchasing them from him, I was
>         supporting the 
>         cause.
>         
>         Anyhow... you're right though. If these are popular, I'll look
>         into
>         local printing. I'm sure I can get them cheaper than $1.50.
>         
>         
>         On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 01:45 -0500, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
>         > Etienne Goyer wrote:
>         > > Where have you bought those ?  I remember the thread where
>         this was
>         > > discussed, but lost the coordinates of the guy who did
>         them.
>         > >
>         > > I would take 20 right away ! 
>         > >
>         > Not to be a stick in the mud, but...
>         >
>         > After this stock is exhausted, perhaps it would be better on
>         an ongoing
>         > basis to have a good quality digital version on hand for
>         printing as needed. 
>         >
>         > Posters are expensive to ship (where did these come from?
>         South Africa?
>         > The UK?) and difficult to ship safely whether rolled or
>         flat. If it
>         > costs $1.50 each to recover the cost of shipping, then it's
>         better to 
>         > print them here if we can find local printers that can do it
>         for less
>         > than that.
>         >
>         > Of course any Staples or Kinkos can do colour copies on the
>         spot, but
>         > they don't publish prices online. One that I did find was
>         from the 
>         > University of Calgary
>         (http://www.ucalgary.ca/printing/ccprice.html),
>         > which quotes $1.20 for tabloid size (11*17, or 12*17 which
>         is close to
>         > A3). Certainly the shops in the GTA can meet or better that.
>         Most will 
>         > print off a digital file; I've done that more than once
>         myself. And also
>         > consider that the price starts dropping with any quantity,
>         and
>         > turnaround time can be as fast as "while you wait". 
>         >
>         > Certainly there's something to be said for having an
>         "original"; but if
>         > the purpose is using them for marketing rather than keeping,
>         the goal
>         > would be to keep costs down in the future. And I can't see
>         how importing 
>         > them would be less expensive than printing them locally,
>         unless the
>         > quantities are big and done in the developing world.
>         >
>         > - Evan
>         >
>         >
>         --
>         Dave Sullivan
>         dave at dave-sullivan.com
>         www.dave-sullivan.com
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> 
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Dave Sullivan
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