I understood the idea was to participate in the National Postcard Month and mail a postal card. I trimmed a 5X7 and backed it onto a US Postal card. S. Shapiro pyro developed Delta 400 printed on Azo F 3 in Amidol ----- Original Message ----- From: "*- CHILLED DELIRIUM-*" <sfunp@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us> To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students" <photoforum@ase-listmail.rit.edu> Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 8:12 AM Subject: Re: another couple postcards > > > On Fri, 3 May 2002, chandler wrote: > > > Can I ask a rather elementary question? Are you *mailing* the postcard > > prints (so they have writing and a stamp on the back), or putting them > > in envelopes and sending them? > > Most, though not all, people so far have mailed the prints as > postcards. > > > "Postcard" stuff on the back, and I've mailed a couple successfully. I > > asked the other day about having prints made at postcard size: the > > ordinary (Fuji Frontier?) prints are 30 yen (probably no more than it > > costs me in paper and *ink*), but the standard photographic paper isn't > > merely thin, it's also hard to write on. Having Postcard postcards > > printed costs many times more (well, about 200 yen each, if you have 10 > > >from one negative!) > > Here it is easy to find postcard 'backing' at most camera stores, > even the pseudo-ones, like Ritz/Wolf which are 4x6 inch > cut sheets of heavy paper, with adhesive on one side, and the > other has the standard postcard format, divided into the message > side and address side, and the ubiquitous "Place Stamp Here" square > in the upper right. You simply take your photo-paper print, stick > it on (carefully, once it's on...it's *on*), and voila' instant > postcard, and plenty sturdy enough for the US postal service. > > --- Luis >
