Re: New 70-72 Judging Guide
OK, that's my answer then, the 'official' version to be used on the NCRS Judging Field is the B&W book and not the color book. I can live with that.
On the earlier thread that suggested buying an additional copy to chop up; that doesn't get it. Why?
Well in our Chapter each of the five sections of a given JG is spiral bound with its own front and rear cover. The front covers are annotated by the printer with bold lettering OPERATIONS....CHASSIS. That makes it obvious which booklet belongs to which judging sub-team when they pull from our master judging field reference library.
If you try to re-use an original book, first you're paying freight in and then the individual sections are NOT rational. By that I mean there is no requirement that each physical section start on a clean RH sheet and end without carry-over into the following section. So, to make our reference pamphlets 'rational', my local photocopy/printer removes the spiral binding and scans each page of a given JG (sans the Dealer Service twiddy) into his system.
Once scanned, he can annotate a page (e.g. add the bold-face OPERATIONS to the cover) and digitally define which of the original pages get reproduced into each of the five discreet reference pamphlets and in what order. When the printing definition task is complete, each of the reference books is 'blown' out, punched for a smaller spiral binding and assembled.
For a B&W book, I typically pay $50 for all five of the sub-books. You can't touch that by buying a single original from Cincy and 'dinking' with makin up individual books yourself...
I once asked Roy why the office of the National Judging Chairman didn't have a means of automating the process for the chapters. the only answer I got was "bigger fish to fry"... So, Dennis Kazmierzak and I figured out the process ourselves here in Denver. It works well for any of you who had a chance to sample our judging field reference wares at the 2015 National Convention.
OK, that's my answer then, the 'official' version to be used on the NCRS Judging Field is the B&W book and not the color book. I can live with that.
On the earlier thread that suggested buying an additional copy to chop up; that doesn't get it. Why?
Well in our Chapter each of the five sections of a given JG is spiral bound with its own front and rear cover. The front covers are annotated by the printer with bold lettering OPERATIONS....CHASSIS. That makes it obvious which booklet belongs to which judging sub-team when they pull from our master judging field reference library.
If you try to re-use an original book, first you're paying freight in and then the individual sections are NOT rational. By that I mean there is no requirement that each physical section start on a clean RH sheet and end without carry-over into the following section. So, to make our reference pamphlets 'rational', my local photocopy/printer removes the spiral binding and scans each page of a given JG (sans the Dealer Service twiddy) into his system.
Once scanned, he can annotate a page (e.g. add the bold-face OPERATIONS to the cover) and digitally define which of the original pages get reproduced into each of the five discreet reference pamphlets and in what order. When the printing definition task is complete, each of the reference books is 'blown' out, punched for a smaller spiral binding and assembled.
For a B&W book, I typically pay $50 for all five of the sub-books. You can't touch that by buying a single original from Cincy and 'dinking' with makin up individual books yourself...
I once asked Roy why the office of the National Judging Chairman didn't have a means of automating the process for the chapters. the only answer I got was "bigger fish to fry"... So, Dennis Kazmierzak and I figured out the process ourselves here in Denver. It works well for any of you who had a chance to sample our judging field reference wares at the 2015 National Convention.
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