[CAUT] electronic tuning device preference?

[Barbara Richmond]

He's married to one!

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Ilvedson" <ilvey at sbcglobal.net>
To: <caut at ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 7:59 PM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] electronic tuning device preference?


> Ron,
> 
> Now what  exactly do you know about graphic artists and what they do?   
> 
> David Ilvedson, RPT
> Pacifica, CA  94044
> 
> ----- Original message ----------------------------------------
> From: "Ron Nossaman" <rnossaman at cox.net>
> To: "College and University Technicians" <caut at ptg.org>
> Received: 3/17/2008 1:25:46 PM
> Subject: Re: [CAUT] electronic tuning device preference?
> 
> 
> 
>>> He's right that the computer enables graphic artists
>>> to produce a big load of work in a short time, 
> 
>>Well, no, it doesn't. the time is wasted doing computer 
>>related things and dealing with clients who believe there is 
>>little time involved in the artist making up fifty versions of 
>>something so they can reject them all out of hand because they 
>>couldn't seem to convey to the artist what it was they wanted. 
>>After all, you just push the button and the design appears on 
>>the screen, right?
> 
> 
>>>and to
>>> make some effects they couldn't make any other way.
> 
>>Granted, often at considerable expenditure of time and 
>>frustration. Had much experience with software?
> 
> 
>>> However, I made up my business card from scratch, with
>>> a pen and ink drawing, and with press-on letters, twice
>>> the desired size. Then the printer shot it down.
>>> 
>>> The result was a card which looks unlike anyone else's.
>>> It stands out from a batch of others whacked together on
>>> a computer, without recourse to fancy color or raised
>>> printing.
> 
>>A mediocre graphic artist is a mediocre graphic artist whether 
>>they are working on a computer or not. Much like a mediocre 
>>tuner, be it with a computer or a fork.
> 
>>Ron N
>