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Layout, Typeset, Print, Graphics, Cover Design by Sirman on Toshiba Infinia 7200 (200mh), loaded with Win95, OS2 Warp 4, Win 3.1, MsDos 5. I used WordPerfect 6.1 (Dos) and 12 pt. Times Type 1 fonts at Word/Chr spacing of 90%/95% of optimal, line spacing 0.9. This, together with the PCX images on chapter headings, made the huge WP document very unstable and difficult to manage.
I printed the original text on Epson Color Stylus 600 (9 pages at a time), scanned the photos at 100-300 dpi as RGB True Color PCX, modified and printed the latter from Adobe Photoshop 4.
Some B/W photos were printed as 720 dpi RGB, using black ink only, others in Grayscale mode at 1440 dpi, after many tests. The color photos, mixed B/W and color pages, and the Cover were done at 1440 dpi in 4-color CMYK mode on the Epson. The photos (in my copy) were printed on high-gloss Hewlett Packard photo paper (the best at $1 per page), though the 1440 dpi Epson inkjet paper (about 17 cents per page) also produced good, perhaps better, results (in your copy).
Copies of the text pages were made by a copy entity, after testing many types of paper to minimize the reflection from the text on the reverse. I decided on a recycled brand of paper because it gave the best results, though paper of 25 per cent cotton is much more durable. (Alas, it showed excessive reflection.) The book was bound into hardcover by a book binder. Blame these entities for defects.
You have one of the 25 copies of this book which, should it interests you, cost about $120 per book to produce, including shipping. Treat it as a collector's item. (Who knows?) The material in the book is fragile. So do NOT subject the book to humidity, spills, and other abusive treatment.
Sirman, Miami Beach, June 28, 1997
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