Fw: Scanning old postcard for use on book cover

["dickbo" <dickbo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "dickbo" <dickbo@btopenworld.com>
To: <scan@leben.com>
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 2:40 PM
Subject: Re: Scanning old postcard for use on book cover


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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Arthur Entlich" <artistic-1@shaw.ca>
> To: <scan@leben.com>
> Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2002 1:04 PM
> Subject: Re: Scanning old postcard for use on book cover
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> > Based upon the circumstances set out below, it is unlikely there is a
> > valid copyright still in existence, and maybe there never was one.  If
> > there is no copyright notice on the published image, and it is as old as
> > it appears, and the company is no longer around (and very possibly the
> > photographer or artist, also), it is probably considered within the
> > public domain at this point.
> >
> > You have been provided with several suggestions on scanning.  I would
> > actually suggest one other point if no one else has brought it up.  If
> > you know who is going to be making the films or the plates, they should
> > be able to tell you exactly what they want for the submission.  Some
> > printers do not want any sharpening done, as they do it within the plate
> > making process.
>
> ....yes indeed, they overexpose the plate which is not sharpening at all
but
> a fiddle used in order to make harder edged dots.
>
> If they want any bleed  it will be done in Quark at page makeup which
means
> this man need not bother himself with such matters
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