[MR] RE: heraldry

[Craig Levin]

Taras:

> When your printer carts run dry, reload them with water soluble
> acrylics, metallic inks, or your choice of permanent, non-fading,
> inks. If you are willing to toss the cart in thinner when it is not in
> use (test on a deceased cart because mineral spirits dissolve some
> plastics) you can load the things with enamel paint. Any hot wax
> printer, such as the big Techtronics, will put out a non-fading image.
> I do photo-quality, non-fading, prints with a TechColor roll dye-sub
> printer. Minimal warm-up time compared to the printers that use actual
> colored wax sticks and have to melt them. Works on paper or on iron-on
> stock.

But how many people have access to such an impressive device?

> FWIW: Why are we saving hard copy long enough for the ink to fade?

For comparisons to newly submitted items. Eventually, a CD of
registered items is going to be something Laurel and the kingdom
submissions heralds are all going to receive, with updates as
necessary, but hardcopies are all that's out there for them.

> Wouldn't a scanned data base of images and data using a common
> program, like Access, be more convenient? Make it doable to use a
> keyword search on charge and/or fields. Burn an annual CD for sale to
> the masses for $10 or so for a fund raiser.

Actually, until the most recent revision of the forms, there were
copyright issues that'd restrict such a vast distribution. The
last Laurel got mundane legal advice to that effect, and was told
to keep distribution numbers _very_ low. Ask either the current
Laurel or Mistress Jaelle for more details.

Pedro