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The purpose of this tutorial is to help you learn how to make proof sheets at the Zedat PC Pool as quickly as possible so we might spend most of our precious class time learning from each other!

You need to bring:

1. Your mensa card to transfer money to your Zedat print account.

2. USB memory sticks (to backup)

3. Your camera with your photos on it!

Keep your image sizes small, so you can work fast!
In this course we will be making images for proof sheets and the web, so there is no need to make files sizes of more than .3 mb unless you plan to make enlargements, when 2 mb for A4 size prints will do just fine. .3 mb will give you image sizes as indicated above, where the 300 kb compressed .jpg file your camera makes expands to 900 kb and capable of producing a high quality 6×9 cm image — more than enough for our proof sheets and the web.

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Later, when you might want to print A4 size, set your camera to the 2 mb size, which will print nicely 17 x 22 cm (on A4, 22 x 29 cm paper).

Your daily workflow.

File size greatly matters as a 2mb file will take seven times as long to copy the five times you will need to be making in the workflow that follows, and so, as we want to begin our class discussion of your work each day promptly at 9:30am, you will have only 30 minutes to make prints if you want to arrive at 9am: you simply didn’t come all this way to be missing class discussion for the sake of downloading files, or? Also, please skip the temptation to read your email or chat during class time: better is to work fast, and if you are already done, offer to help someone else!

OK, here’s what you’ll need to do as efficiently as possible so we can get to the good work of sharing and discussion. Bring this printout and do the following:

  1. On your way into the PC Pool, first put money on your Zedat printing account if you need to (so you won’t have to interrupt your other work; better, put money on your account when you are finished and have free time before class).  
  2. Then look for a free DELL or Macintosh pc in the “Taifun” room on the right (the older machines are much too slow, they have only 512mb RAM, and we want to be in the same room to help each other).
  3. Log on to your computer (and again, please do not check your mail until the class break!)
  4. Insert your camera’s card into the PC and copy all your new image folders onto the pc’s Desktop.
  5. Then copy these folders onto your memory sticks and be sure everything is secure!
  6. When you are sure everything is now in three places, delete all the images from your camera so you’ll be ready for the next day’s work! If you want to be able to share your work, better to make an extra proof sheet: the images are larger!
  7. Then create new folders for each of your projects and give them today’s date and a relevant assignment name. Select your nine best images for each assignment (because nine is how many images the Windows “passport” or proof sheet format puts on a page) and drag them into their new folders.
  8. Print the nine images in each folder to the “Passat 1-6″ printers. Use the Windows print wizards and choosing the “passport” format which prints nine images at a time.
  9. When you go looking for your printout, don’t leave your valuables behind unattended!
  10. Upload the folders to your Picasa Web album.
  11. Copy all of your newly organized folders onto your memory sticks in addition to the originals.
  12. Delete those folders from your desktop.
  13. Log out.

How to download images from your digital camera

Print Application. After you have copied your files and sorted them you want next to print using the “Fotodruck- Assistant”, which you get by a strg-right-mouse click on the folder you want to print. Be sure to choose the “passbild” format which prints nine images on one side for proof sheets.

B/W Printers. When prompted for printers you want to choose the black/white laser printers named “passat-1″ to “passat-6″ as there are six of them in the room called “Passat” next to “Taifun”.
Color Printers. When you want to print color, you will choose “farbe46″ and pick up your print 30 minutes later in room “Bora” which you passed on the way into the PC Pool.
Print Costs. Printing costs .04 per page, put on your Zedat print account using your mensa card and the kiosk in the PC Pool, as I will show you on the first day. To find out how much money is left on your Zedat print account, go to: https://portal.zedat.fu-berlin.de/services/index.php and click the “Printservice” link.

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