[plug] Membership Cards was Update :)

[James Devenish]

In message <3F8BB90A.1000109 at leftclick.com.au>
on Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 04:51:22PM +0800, Ben New wrote:
> The original is SVG so can be rendered to any size or resolution.

If possible, don't rasterise the thing before printing :-) In fact, you
don't really want people attempting to rasterise it themselves because
you will either get a lot of variation or have to put people through a
lot of hassle.

> The Tux and Perth images are imported scalar images, but they have already 
> been shrunk to fit on the 9cm*5cm card.

Ah, you see, "shrunk"...there are at least two interpretations of that.
One of those is "hot" (as in "good") while the other is "not".

> I'll deal with them at the time... shall we say 300dpi for the final 
> printables?

Although it probably goes without saying, there's no point increasing
the original bitmaps to 300dpi if they work out as less than that to
begin with (i.e. there would be not benefit). For the colour artwork, it
should be sufficient to use a lower print resolution, and that gives you
more leeway with regards to downloadable file size :-)

> BTW, is that a good size (9*5)?  It's standard business card size, but 
> it can be bigger if anyone thinks there is a need?

Factors to consider:
 - will they be laminated?
 - will they go into name-badge clips?
 - will they be double-sided?

Commonplace name badges should accommodate 90x55 fine, but sometimes
they are smaller (yet 'make to order' name badges are often much
larger). For lamination, aim for a smaller size (e.g. no more than
80x50mm) so that they will fit into the lamination pouches and the
addition of plastic edging will still leave you with a credit card-sized
result. With regards to being double-sided, will hobbyist lamination
machines accommodate a folded sheet (from <100gsm stock)? If so, perhaps
aim for 80x100mm so that people can print out both sides of the card on
the same page and just fold the card in two to make a double-sided card
for lamination.


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