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Re: How to Display Flyers
« on: August 18, 2009, 11:05:28 PM »
Hi Pete, Easiest (or laziest :) way would be to read my so called 'about us" page: http://www.nypinball.com/about.php  .I'm lucky , my business is my hobby and my hobby is my business. I love the whole process of restoring pinball machines. Before computers became so mainstream, I used to collect flyers of the machines I had to sell. I carried a loose-leaf book around to show customers the brochures with the hope of making a sale and getting them to come look and buy one. When computers came along and I started seeing that people were buying/selling/trading and collecting them, I began collecting more and as you can see it got out of control. At first I was just going to collect solid state flyers, then I started E.M's and then I started with the foreign ones. The hardest part was when I decided to scan and upload them all to the website. To try and be different from the other websites, I wanted to make my scans higher resolution. I learned photoshop and spent many many hours taking out specs, stains, tears, folds, and even taking the yellow fading from the backgrounds out to give them all a vibrant colorful look. I wanted them to be easy to read and nice to look at. I get alot of satisfaction when I hear that people like to look at them. As far as printing, I hate to admit, I don't think I ever tried. I would think photo paper would be too glossy, I would try to make them look more original with some sort of semi-glossy paper.
Ron

Hi Ron,  %)%   Hows about an intro post - tell us about yourself and your business?

I've had a look at the site and you've got a great range of flyers there.  

I like the suggestions from a couple of the guys of having font and back mounted - that would look sweet.

Just a question if someone were to print a flyer - I suppose using photo quality paper is the way to go.
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