[pct-l] Printing Maps

[CHUCK CHELIN]

Good afternoon, Sean,

I certainly agree with you about highlighting the trail.  I did that on my
Guidebook maps and it makes the trail much easier to quickly pick out amid
all the rest of the black lines on those pages.

Steel-Eye

On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Sean Nordeen <sean at lifesadventures.net>wrote:

> Printing grayscale is the cheapest method.  I have a 11 year old B&W laser
> printer that I'm only on the 2nd or 3rd cartridge of toner since they last
> for more then 10K pages and they are really cheap too.  The cost of ink on
> my Color Laser and my inkjet is much higher and they don't last very long.
>  As for being able to clearly see the trail amongs the other grayscale
> lines, I was thinking that a couple of color highlighter pen would be the
> answer.  Highlight the tail in one color and then highlight any important
> features (springs etc) in another color.
>
> -Sean
>
> ------------------------------------------------
> I have a single color laser printer. I suspect printing the maps in
> grayscale would be the cheapest option, but the trail is hard to see in
> some places in grayscale. I have printed the first map. Following the
> trail through downtown (such as it is) Campo is difficult in grayscale
> due to the nearby roads. The section where the trail is on the road was
> one of the few places where I actually got confused as I was hiking.
>
> Anyway, that is something that someone might try.
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