GMC Print Art

[1960HDGMC]

Yes those ads look great framed. My concern about framing them is that some are so thin,I fear they may fade in a garage. If I can scan them on a larger scanner, I could print and frame and keep the originals out of the light. Does anyone know where there are scanners big enough to do these great big pieces? I have a GMC Brands poster that is HUGE and rare. It is from 1992. I would love to scan it and ad it here for anyone that might like it. It has all the badging thru the years up to 1992. Any ideas appreciated, Greg Mead

[FetchMeAPepsi]

Originally Posted by 1960HDGMC

Yes those ads look great framed. My concern about framing them is that some are so thin,I fear they may fade in a garage. If I can scan them on a larger scanner, I could print and frame and keep the originals out of the light. Does anyone know where there are scanners big enough to do these great big pieces? I have a GMC Brands poster that is HUGE and rare. It is from 1992. I would love to scan it and ad it here for anyone that might like it. It has all the badging thru the years up to 1992. Any ideas appreciated, Greg Mead

Kinkos might do it on their commercial scanners.

[Ed Snyder]

Originally Posted by 1960HDGMC

Does anyone know where there are scanners big enough to do these great big pieces? I have a GMC Brands poster that is HUGE and rare. It is from 1992. I would love to scan it and ad it here for anyone that might like it. It has all the badging thru the years up to 1992. Any ideas appreciated, Greg Mead

Greg --

You could try just taking a digital photo of your poster, then having a WalMart poster made from your photo. I've taken lots of photos of photos, and they usually turn out pretty good.

[GMCDAC]

Originally Posted by 1960HDGMC

Yes those ads look great framed. My concern about framing them is that some are so thin,I fear they may fade in a garage. If I can scan them on a larger scanner, I could print and frame and keep the originals out of the light. Does anyone know where there are scanners big enough to do these great big pieces? I have a GMC Brands poster that is HUGE and rare. It is from 1992. I would love to scan it and ad it here for anyone that might like it. It has all the badging thru the years up to 1992. Any ideas appreciated, Greg Mead

Hi Greg, I don't blame you for wanting to preserve the originals and make copies for display. What I have been doing for quite some time now is to simply take pictures of the brochures or pamplets. I used to do it by just holding the camera as perfectly centered and square on the object and fill the camera frame. With a bunch of practice I got pretty good at that part but last spring I fell into two great deals. My daughter was throwing away a 14 megapixel camera she said was broken. I said throw it in my shop's garbage! I was able to fix it and love it! Then my wife's cousin's had bought an old fixer-upper house for a residence. Both are single moms. Anyway they were cleaning out the garage and found some old photo enlarging equipment and they sent it all our way. These modern digital cameras still have the same screw hole on the bottom that the old 35mm's had. It works great!

I took these pics with my old 5 MP camera as the battery for the 14 is on the charger tonight. I didn't take time to square it up perfectly or mess with lighting, but you should get the idea. Even the 5 MP camera should have a detailed enough pic to blow this double page brochure up well to 22x28.

Flash or no flash and lighting is the hardest part when trying to reproduce well. If the picture-taker is slightly off-square, a little cropping takes care of that most the time. My scanner will do that scan and stitch stuff but I've not had time to learn that.

DAC

[1960HDGMC]

Here is a poster from 1990. I have never seen another one. I would love to scan it and make it available to others. Greg Mead

[1960HDGMC]

Working on a cleaned up version of the 1960 GMC Operator Manual. It will print much better than the first, uncleaned version I posted. Meantime, here is an ad I found on Ebay. It is from 1960. Do you reckon they had the same colors on the GMC Training Center uniforms from the picture I posted earlier? Pressed pants on the mechanic and a lady in the car,in the service area,man times have changed. Greg Mead

[1960HDGMC]

Here is the 1960 GMC Operators Manual cover, cleaned up, compressed to 320KB version. It would not load at 11.2MB size. This was the biggest size the program would let me choose. I do not know if this will print OK or not.

[GMCDAC]

Hey Greg, I downloaded this pic from your build thread at 6.46 MB awhile back.

DAC

[FetchMeAPepsi]

Originally Posted by 1960HDGMC

Here is the 1960 GMC Operators Manual cover, cleaned up, compressed to 320KB version. It would not load at 11.2MB size. This was the biggest size the program would let me choose. I do not know if this will print OK or not.

For big files you can use something like uploaded.net or rapidgator.com. They host it free and you can put up to 1gb on some of them.

Great poster, btw. I'd be intereted in printing one up for the garage here.

[GMCDAC]

This should be it at 6.46 MB again.