copy machines

[standard]

anyone else generally annoyed at the onslaught of new "better" digital copy machines? man, i just tried to take a sketch and y'know, "glob it up" a bit...COULDN'T DO IT. I reduced the thing like, 500-600% and blew it back up again. no glob, just like an over-sharpened slightly pixel-ly thing. awful. useless. and i tried upping the contrast, and it output a weirdly even gray tone as like a "halo".... and that was the "indy" local shop, too, not kinko's.

standard so sad.

[gun sho]

i know what you mean, i have to use my $2000 computer to distress stuff.

[Nolen Strals]

you know what I do to trick those machines?
step on the copies...fold em up...wrinkle em
shrink it to 25% then SLOWLY up it back to
normal size... like...115%, then 120% then
back down 80% then back up 150%....it takes
more copies...but yknow...it works.

OR...hold what you're copying slightly above
the glass....that blurs it some.

but yeah... nothing beats and old piece
of crap copier that makes everything into
high contrast and spotty crap.

[Plantweed]

The old copy machines were analog, but more and more are becoming digital, thus the stair-step pixalization. Looks like shite.

[uncle charlie]

I bend, tear, fold, shit on it, piss on it, reduce it down to nothing and reenlarge it.. most of the time that works.

[RichieGoodtimes]

I use the stat camera. Somethings are just impossible to do on the computer.

[GIGART]

I too do what all of you are saying...plus...once I reduce it really small...I hit the lighten a few times before going big again, this also loses some info...but here in SF...Kinkos still has some shitty copiers...they work great for me....

[standard]

yeah, the things i'm stuck using are basically...well, they're really good. at least in the sense that they do what they're supposed to, which is make damned crisp copies of word documents...

[Eli A.]

Try scanning it into your computer and blurring it in Photoshop and printing it back out. Just a touch goes a really long way and the results are pretty cool when you start playing with the copiers contrast and zoom functions

[Evil Alice Corp]

i'm not sure what it is exactly ur trying to achieve...
but if what ur trying to achieve is what i think you're trying to achieve...then this is what i do.

print on newsprint (or crappy old recycled paper) at a very very tiny size.
then i take that print and enlarge it at 200% a couple of times (3-4 copies approximately) on newsprint to achieve that blobby edges