Discussion: Old printing materials for US maps (Hamilton Newell)
in: Orienteering; Gear & Toys
Jan 7, 2011 5:59 PM
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I'm posting the following message on behalf of Ed Hicks, who has recently done something that I had been thinking about doing myself -- an inventory of the old map printing materials that have been gathering dust. If your club ever had anything printed at Namilton Newell or The Paper House, please alert whoever in the club is in charge of maps and have them contact Ed to tell them what to do with your club's stuff. If you aren't sure, let me say that I have advised the clubs that I'm associated with to say to just throw it all away. It's unlikely that there is anything that has any value other than as curiosities to hang on a wall somewhere.
Note that I have not included the letter that he refers to, nor the list of maps involved -- contact Ed or me if you'd like to have those forwarded to you (they're PDFs and not really easy to post here).
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Map Printing Films from Hamilton Newell – Approximately 1980-2002
On November 30th, 2010, at Tiger Press in Northampton, MA I inventoried about 3 feet of boxes of color separation films that were used at Hamilton Newell Printer to print Orienteering maps between 1980 and about 2002. The boxes were moved to Tiger Press when Jamie O’Connell closed his business purchased from Norman Newell. Jamie now works for Tiger Press. Jamie would like to give the film to the relevant club, for the cost of shipping, else dispose of it. Jamie requests instructions from each club.
See attached letter to the Orienteering Clubs detailing information about the film and its return. The letter also lists why the film may be of value to the club/owner.
A second document is a list of the films that I inventoried at Tiger Press.
Most of the boxes contained film from one or two clubs. Please read through the complete list as you may find film for your club that is in another club’s box. If you have any questions please feel free to call me before 11PM NY time.
Ed Hicks
Orienteering Unlimited
3 Jan Ridge Rd
Somers, NY 10589
(914) 248-5957
edhicks (at) orienteeringunlimited.com
Note that I have not included the letter that he refers to, nor the list of maps involved -- contact Ed or me if you'd like to have those forwarded to you (they're PDFs and not really easy to post here).
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Map Printing Films from Hamilton Newell – Approximately 1980-2002
On November 30th, 2010, at Tiger Press in Northampton, MA I inventoried about 3 feet of boxes of color separation films that were used at Hamilton Newell Printer to print Orienteering maps between 1980 and about 2002. The boxes were moved to Tiger Press when Jamie O’Connell closed his business purchased from Norman Newell. Jamie now works for Tiger Press. Jamie would like to give the film to the relevant club, for the cost of shipping, else dispose of it. Jamie requests instructions from each club.
See attached letter to the Orienteering Clubs detailing information about the film and its return. The letter also lists why the film may be of value to the club/owner.
A second document is a list of the films that I inventoried at Tiger Press.
Most of the boxes contained film from one or two clubs. Please read through the complete list as you may find film for your club that is in another club’s box. If you have any questions please feel free to call me before 11PM NY time.
Ed Hicks
Orienteering Unlimited
3 Jan Ridge Rd
Somers, NY 10589
(914) 248-5957
edhicks (at) orienteeringunlimited.com
Jan 7, 2011 6:01 PM
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Actually, although I recommend tossing it all, I will include the excerpt from Ed's letter where he suggests that you may want to consider otherwise:
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Though the maps on the films are old, they may be of current – not just archival – value. OCAD provides at least two ways to use scans of these films.
1. The OCAD feature Assign to Spot Color can be used to update old hand drawn or scribed maps. The printing plates or films for each spot color are scanned (black and white or gray-scale) and then imported as background maps. When such a background map is assigned to a spot color, it is displayed in that color. In addition, when the spot color view is activated the background map is displayed together with the corresponding spot color. This function is only available in OCAD Professional.
2. OCAD has a function to hide existing features and then draw vector corrections on top. The following OCAD “HowTo” describes the process http://ocad.com/howtos/75.htm shows how to update topographic maps, but the same process can be applied to orienteering maps.
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Though the maps on the films are old, they may be of current – not just archival – value. OCAD provides at least two ways to use scans of these films.
1. The OCAD feature Assign to Spot Color can be used to update old hand drawn or scribed maps. The printing plates or films for each spot color are scanned (black and white or gray-scale) and then imported as background maps. When such a background map is assigned to a spot color, it is displayed in that color. In addition, when the spot color view is activated the background map is displayed together with the corresponding spot color. This function is only available in OCAD Professional.
2. OCAD has a function to hide existing features and then draw vector corrections on top. The following OCAD “HowTo” describes the process http://ocad.com/howtos/75.htm shows how to update topographic maps, but the same process can be applied to orienteering maps.
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