So, what went into making the magazine color now? Is it worth the extra expensive? Is it an extra expense? Just wondering.
It’s been color for a while now. I don’t know what’s extra though. I believe USCF should partner with Germany’s Rochade and/or Deutscher Schachbund.
I think there was a post elsewhere that noted that due to improved technology, in the latest magazine contract we both cut costs significantly and picked up color.
What’s different is that the magazine is now full color (that is, printed using a four-color process) throughout. We can thank the current economic climate and the trend toward online publications (and away from paper publications) for making it possible to print the magazine with a four-color process more cheaply than the previous two-color (?) process. Specifically, the contract for printing Chess Life expired earlier this year. Joe Nanna (CFO) put the contract out to competitive bid. There are printers hungry for business out there, so we got a very good deal.
(Note: I’m not in the printing industry, so I may have made terminology mistakes above. This is what Dan Lucas reported in the Publications Director’s Report this morning at the Delegates’ Meeting.)