transparencies

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Hi!

What does creating actual physical overhead transparencies of a PowerPoint
presentation entail? Does the designer of the presentation need to hand her
file off to a commercial printer in order to have the transparencies created,
or can she feed transparencies into her “dumb printer†in order to print them
right at her office?

My PowerPoint experience involves only creating presentations used on a
computer, so I would like to know what to do in case the transparency
scenario arises. Thanks.
 
Most office supply stores have blank transparency sheets designed for printing
on injet or laserjet printers. You'll find them in the paper section that
includes photo paper, blank greeting cards, labels, etc.
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Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials
http://www.soniacoleman.com
 
You'll need a slide service bureau to print those 35mm slides. Unless you
want to spring for tens of thousands of dollars worth of equipment, that is!
 
Hi!

What does creating actual physical overhead transparencies of a PowerPoint
presentation entail? Does the designer of the presentation need to hand her
file off to a commercial printer in order to have the transparencies created,
or can she feed transparencies into her “dumb printer†in order to print them
right at her office?

My PowerPoint experience involves only creating presentations used on a
computer, so I would like to know what to do in case the transparency
scenario arises. Thanks.
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Just feed transparency material into your printer and print.
The printer driver may have special settings you can use to enhance the color
quality of the results, so it's worth checking that out.

If you use a laser type printer (b/w laser or a color printer that uses powder
rather than liquid ink) be VERY certain you buy transparency material rated for the
relatively high levels of heat these printers produce. You don't want to reduce
your printer to molten-plastic-clogged boat anchor.

If you can beg/borrow a melted wax type of printer (like the Tektronix/Xerox Phaser
series) go for it. They tend to produce the most saturated, richly colored
transparencies.
 
Thanks. I forgot to ask ... How about 35mm slides? How are they handled?
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What Echo said. If you type PowerPoint 35mm Slides into Google, you'll get 4
bazillion eleventy trillion thousand forty two hits to choose from. ;-)
 
If you can beg/borrow a melted wax type of printer (like the
Tektronix/Xerox Phaser
series) go for it. They tend to produce the most saturated, richly
colored
transparencies.
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Yeah, they are good for trannies!

TAJ
 
If you use an Inkjet printer, but the transparencies designed for Inkjet and
print them in REVERSE so they lay on the Overhead Projector SHINY SIDE UP.
This way you can write on them with the erasable markers made for
transparencies and remove the markings from them as often as needed. I find
they also don't curl up from the heat of the lamp this way.

Bud Trinkel
 
Greetings!

If Bud or anyone else could help me with this, I'd greatly appreciate it!
(In fact, THANK YOU to all of you who have helped me with my past and recent
posts.)

I don’t understand the first sentence of Bud’s post. Judging from looks of
the remaining sentences of his post, I think I’ll understand his post
completely once someone clarifies the first sentence.

Thanks again!
 

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