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Old 07-23-2013, 01:22 AM
bostonmarathonman bostonmarathonman is offline
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Default poor print quality in catalog

I wholeheartedly agree with all of you guys who are complaining about the poor print quality or "hard to read-didness" (sorry, I'm making up my own words here) of the catalog. I'm a 44 year old with 20-20 vision, have never worn nor needed glasses, contacts or a loupe, yet I abhor their choice of a tiny, thin white print on some of these dark colored backgrounds; on some pages/colors its not too bad and is legible but on others its just downright horrific!! The first time I saw the word "Ruth" in the description of one of the many Babe Ruth-related lots I thought they spelled his name wrong and it said "Puth" but I soon realized it did indeed say "Ruth": it only looked like "Puth" because the diagonal line that turns a P into an R was barely visible; it wasnt until I saw his name mentioned again later in the description that I realized it wasnt a spelling error but rather a font/color problem as most of the capital R's in the catalog look like P's; if they used the bold white print that is on page 60 throughout the entire catalog there wouldnt be any problem.

And this isnt the first time one of their catalogs has had this problem; at least one or more of their dreier collection catalogs had the same almost-illegible white print; if you still have them, take a look at one of those and you'll see what I mean!

Last edited by bostonmarathonman; 07-23-2013 at 01:26 AM.
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