K-Factor vision of the future.

[Richard Hallett]

Recycling

I do not believe anyone has addressed this issue yet.  We are wasting resources by having a printed version if not necessary???

In my case I have tried to drop periodicals that come in print if anything is available on line.

Why? They have to be recycled sometime.

Rick
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Daniel Dupont 
  To: discussion at nsrca.org 
  Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 11:54 AM
  Subject: RE: K-Factor vision of the future.


  Why would time an issued for the download? most connection these day have unlimited connection time....?

  Then good printing of the k-factor would not be assured on home computers since some page in html doesn't print well at all, if you mean to go pdf on line the same speed problem occur.

  Maybe it could be offered by page for the guy's with a slower connection, and the complete issue for the cable an the like connection, I was on 56k for a long time an event at that 56k (really 42K) I used to download the k-factor....I just walk away from the computer for an hour or so!

  I for one is in favor of the on-line k-factor, and for the folks that are not maybe a simpler k-factor to reduce the cost of the fancy color k-factor that we are getting once in while....

  Maybe I'm missing the point??

  Daniel


    I do not think the concept will be to actually download the K-Factor, but rather, to read it on-line, similar to the way

    many Magazine publications are today.      

     

    -----Original Message-----
    From: discussion-request at nsrca.org [mailto:discussion-request at nsrca.org] On Behalf Of Lee Davis
    Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 9:51 AM
    To: discussion at nsrca.org
    Subject: RE: K-Factor vision of the future.

     

    Yes, this is an issue I haven't seen mentioned that needs consideration.

     

    I did some experimenting with pdf files and the typical page, done in grayscale, will come in somewhere around 100KB per page.  Full page ads, around 150KB/page.  This is best case scenario.  Pics and other graphics will look OK on screen but print poorly.  For print quality pdf files (300dpi) the size goes way up, 1MB - 2MB per page.  Publish in color and the file sizes increase more.

     

    The issues I question are:

    1) How many people who opt for the online version will actually bother to download?  Broadband internet connections are still in the minority - most people are still 56Kb dial-up.

    2) What are advertisers going to think about this and how important is advertising to the K-Factor budget?  As an advertiser, I'm skeptical.

     

    Lee Davis

    Piedmont Models

    http://www.piedmontmodels.com/

      
      -----Original Message----- 
      From: discussion-request at nsrca.org [mailto:discussion-request at nsrca.org]On Behalf Of Wade & Barbara Akle 
      Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 8:34 AM 
      To: Discussion rc NSRCA 
      Subject: Re: K-Factor vision of the future. 
      I may have missed somebody mentioning the excessive size of the present k=factor downloads of 5-7 Mbps (:< 
      I have great admiration for our web-site team and thank them for it al the time. And, I am for having the k-factor delivered on the web. 
       
      One question is how come I get to download in pdf format all kind of manuals and pages of information larger than the k-factor in a reasonable time and yet have avoided the k-factor because of the time it takes?? 
       
      Until the download time on a 56 kbps phone line gets down to less than a minute or two, we have a losing proposition, leaving a lot of us without the k-factor. 
      Wade 
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