[fvc-wat-disc] Sample Charts & Kinko's Prices

[Derek Kraan]

Hi everyone!

Just letting you have a peek at what Paul and I are working on right now.
We'd love to hear any feedback you have! We're putting together a
presentation board (3' H x 4' W) for the Global Citizenship Conference at
Wilfrid Laurier University. We'll be having a booth there this coming
weekend.

That reminds me - if anyone is interested in helping occupy the booth for
the weekend, we'd certainly appreciate it! We think we can reach a lot of
people with this booth, and the more people we have to help us out the
better!

Anyhow, the prices for printouts and related things at Kinkos are as
follows:

Large format | Colour: $9.99 / sq. foot | B+W: $0.99 / sq. foot
11" x 17" | Colour: $1.58 | B+W: $0.20 (this is about 1.3 sq. feet - much
cheaper)
8.5" x 14" | Colour: $0.79 | B+W: $0.10
8.5" x 11" | Colour: $0.79 | B+W: $0.10

So it would be considerably cheaper to slice up our design and print off the
parts one at a time in one of the three smaller formats. By the way, the
maximum size for a large format printout would be 2 inches larger (36" x
50") than we'd need.

Business Cards come 10 per sheet. The cost for printing per sheet is $1.49,
but they charge $1 per "cut" that they have to do to make the individual
cards. That's an additional $9 per sheet. So the real, final price would be
$10.49 per sheet, or $1.05 per card. Now, I'm not sure whether one "cut" can
span multiple sheets (i.e., laid on top of each other), so I'll have to ask
that. It's not cheap.

I've attached a sample pie chart done in Inkscape in about half an hour. I'd
like feedback on the style or look of it. It looks like we'll be able to
have fairly good looking graphics in the booth anyways. For those of you who
don't have Inkscape, it's free (open source) software, so you can get a copy
via the download link here: http://inkscape.org/

That's all for now.

Derek Kraan
Co-chair, Waterloo Region Chapter
Fair Vote Canada
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