Aneoth wrote:
Very nice looking map.
I have not yet tried a B&W, and I was also planning to try out the methods on a Judges Guild brown map too.
I am concerned that the solid Brown background might make the print come out badly.
I think it would be a great idea to test how the scanner does on one of these maps, if only for Bob Jr.'s information. I can't remember how many times Bob and I would discuss about how to make more "brown bumpy" maps (as we'd call them).
I'd be telling him about some great color inkjet printer where I could make 13x19" maps and he'd tell me, no, people want the original stuff. So I started to calling up the printers hoping they'd find the negs some where. I'm pretty stubborn about giving up but after about 3 calls round town every several years, I think the negs have long been destroyed.
So we also took a few running leaps with trying to redraw them in Illustrator but as Robert Conley's found, there's a lot of work trying to duplicate the originals precisely in a digital format. Probably easier to manually redraw them actually! But then they'd still look different because apparently no one has found the exact same paper stock that we'd used.
But we'd get stymied when we realized how much work there was in the redrawing digitally and Bob would sort drift off and I didn't really have a dog in this fight; I just trying to be helpful to him. Bob and I were always more effective when we were both equally trying to wrassle a dragon down TOGETHER.
After all, if the scanner got close, then at least that might address the small demand for the original style maps, perhaps via a CafePress print on demand approach. James Mishler's newly redrawn maps probably satisfies a greater demand.
When I talk to Bob Jr. I can see if he's already been working on reproducing the maps or has any interest in this.
