Rick Glawson sold reprints of his R&E catalog. They were done on a black and white copy machine, so the quality of the copies were not the greatest, still it was better than nothing.
I promised myself that if I ever came across an Original R&E Catalog that I would make
some quality reprints. Well that time has come. After acquiring an original R&E catalog, I disassembled it so that I could lay the pages flat on a scanner one at a time.
The Photograph pages were scanned in grayscale at 600dpi. While the graphics were scanned in Black and White at 300dpi.
After a week of scanning, straightening, and cleaning up, 160 pages plus the cover, were now ready for printing.
I chose to print them on a Xerox Phaser 8200 laser printer. This type of printer uses solid ink, they look like Ice Cubes of Color. This type of printer is fast and economical, when compared to an inkjet printer. And the Quality of the gloss printing combined with the glossy paper stock makes for a very nice look and feel.
The pages were printed on 32lbs. Color Copy Gloss, to best simulate the feel of the catalog.
The cover (missing a corner) was scanned in color mode, and thanks to corel photo paint, the corner was restored. The covers were lamintated, and 10 copies were printed and comb bound.
At the Letterhead Zoo Meet this past summer, I handed out all of the copies. They were recieved with big smiles, (you're quite welcome kent!)
That's the good news...now for the bad.
Seems that I used cheap off brand ink cubes, and not the more expensive xerox ink. And because of that, all the pages bled from one side to the other. Its as if someone had taken mineral spirits and rubbed down each page.
I contacted the ink company and sent them some samples of the printouts, their response was, "Not our Ink". I dont know how its not there ink, when I pulled their ink cubes from the printer.
I have since stocked the printer with genuine xerox ink, and am ready for another round of R&E Catalog printing.
Rick Sold his copies for $25. I will be selling my copies for $50 per catalog.
The original R&E catalog had an embossed cover, and after doing some checking around, I was given a price of $600 for producing the plates to restamp some more covers. I will have to look into that sometime in the future. For now it will just be the laminated color copy.
If anyone is interested in having me print you a copy, email me at
zignmahn@yahoo.com.
Im also open to trading if you've got something I would be interested in.
RMN