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Why would time an issued for the download? most connection these day have
unlimited connection time....?<br><br>
Then good printing of the k-factor would not be assured on home computers
since some page in html doesn't print well at all, if you mean to go pdf
on line the same speed problem occur.<br><br>
Maybe it could be offered by page for the guy's with a slower connection,
and the complete issue for the cable an the like connection, I was on 56k
for a long time an event at that 56k (really 42K) I used to download the
k-factor....I just walk away from the computer for an hour or
so!<br><br>
I for one is in favor of the on-line k-factor, and for the folks that are
not maybe a simpler k-factor to reduce the cost of the fancy color
k-factor that we are getting once in while....<br><br>
Maybe I'm missing the point??<br><br>
Daniel<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite><font face="arial" size=2 color="#000080">I
do not think the concept will be to actually download the K-Factor, but
rather, to read it on-line, similar to the way<br>
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<font face="arial" size=2 color="#000080">many Magazine publications are
today. <br>
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<font face="arial" size=2 color="#000080"> <br>
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<font face="tahoma" size=2>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b>From:</b> discussion-request@nsrca.org
[<a href="mailto:discussion-request@nsrca.org" eudora="autourl">mailto:discussion-request@nsrca.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Lee Davis<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, September 28, 2002 9:51 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> discussion@nsrca.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: K-Factor vision of the future.<br>
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<font face="Times New Roman, Times"> <br>
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<font face="Courier New, Courier" size=2 color="#0000FF">Yes, this is an
issue I haven't seen mentioned that needs consideration.<br>
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<font face="Courier New, Courier" size=2 color="#0000FF">I did some
experimenting with pdf files and the typical page, done in grayscale,
will come in somewhere around 100KB per page. Full page ads, around
150KB/page. This is best case scenario. Pics and other
graphics will look OK on screen but print poorly. For print quality
pdf files (300dpi) the size goes way up, 1MB - 2MB per page.
Publish in color and the file sizes increase more.<br>
</font><br>
<font face="verdana" size=2> <br>
</font><br>
<font face="Courier New, Courier" size=2 color="#0000FF">The issues I
question are:<br>
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<font face="Courier New, Courier" size=2 color="#0000FF">1) How many
people who opt for the online version will actually bother to
download? Broadband internet connections are still in the minority
- most people are still 56Kb dial-up.<br>
</font><br>
<font face="Courier New, Courier" size=2 color="#0000FF">2) What are
advertisers going to think about this and how important is advertising to
the K-Factor budget? As an advertiser, I'm skeptical.<br>
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<font face="Courier New, Courier" size=2 color="#0000FF">Lee Davis<br>
</font><br>
<font face="Courier New, Courier" size=2 color="#0000FF">Piedmont
Models<br>
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<font face="Courier New, Courier" size=2 color="#0000FF"><a href="http://www.piedmontmodels.com/">http://www.piedmontmodels.com/</a><br>
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<font face="verdana" size=2> </font>
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<dd>-----Original Message-----
<dd>From:</b> discussion-request@nsrca.org
[<a href="mailto:discussion-request@nsrca.org" eudora="autourl">mailto:discussion-request@nsrca.org</a>]On
Behalf Of </b>Wade & Barbara Akle
<dd>Sent:</b> Saturday, September 28, 2002 8:34 AM
<dd>To:</b> Discussion rc NSRCA
<dd>Subject:</b> Re: K-Factor vision of the
future.</font><font face="verdana" size=2>
<dd>I may have missed somebody mentioning the excessive size of the
present k=factor downloads of 5-7 Mbps
(:<</font><font face="verdana" size=2>
<dd>I have great admiration for our web-site team and thank them for it
al the time. And, I am for having the k-factor delivered on the
web.</font><font face="verdana" size=2>
<dd> </font><font face="verdana" size=2>
<dd>One question is how come I get to download in pdf format all kind of
manuals and pages of information larger than the k-factor in a reasonable
time and yet have avoided the k-factor because of the time it takes??
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<dd> </font><font face="verdana" size=2>
<dd>Until the download time on a 56 kbps phone line gets down to less
than a minute or two, we have a losing proposition, leaving a lot of us
without the k-factor.</font><font face="verdana" size=2>
<dd>Wade</font>
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