Re: Year End Report Card

Posted by BH On 2008/1/5 18:33:45

Mal -

It is obvious that you are a BIG FAN of this site, and I also appreciate you effort to promote the site - as well as the Owner Registry to newcomers, here.

Although not every Packard owner is online, most people have access somewhere/somehow. Perhaps once they see what PackardInfo has to offer, those who are not online will have good reason to do so. I'm confident that things will only snowball from there.

As for the biz cards, Avery templates are a built-in feature of Microsoft Word, but I donated the cardstock, ink, and time - as BigKev was literally on the fly. I already had a color ink tank in my printer that I wanted to finish off before installing a fresh one. While I also had some old Avery business card stock, I wound up purchasing a newer product that was specifically formulated for color printing and ensure I could turn out 200 cards (since the Warren event attracts 100+ cars when the weather is nice). The Avery stock is easy to bust apart, too - faster than using a paper trimmer (if you have access to one of those).

After the event, I sent the MS-Word file to BigKev, thinking he might want to use it himself - for small runs of cards. Yet, I specifically left the door open for him to offer it to anyone who wanted to similarly donate their resources to print small quantities cards to hand out at their local auto events.

Although I composed the layout in Word 2003, you can view and print Word documents, even if you don't have Word installed:http://support.microsoft.com/kb/891090

If you're not using Microsoft, perhaps there's some conversion utility you can run. Else, you may have to lay it up from scratch, but I'm confident that BigKev can supply the elements and a JPEG of the card.

Hope this further helps promote site awareness Down Under.