Press Offers Tips for Submitting Photos

November 28, 2003

Like most small weekly newspapers, the content of the Kiowa County Press is made up of a combination of staff-written material and items submitted by our readers. With the advent of the new technology age and people becoming more familiar with computer technology such as scanners and digital cameras, many recent items submitted by readers for print in the Kiowa County Press have been accompanied by ink jet photos. While the photos are great for passing around for family and friends to see, even the best photos printed by an ink jet printer are not suitable for reproduction in a newspaper. While a photo printed by an inkjet printer may look like a photograph to the human eye, to a computer such images look like distinct or slightly overlapping red, blue and yellow dots – and are nearly impossible to convert into a legible image for newspaper printing. Therefore, a lot of the photographs submitted to us have gone unused.

If you have digital photos you would like to submit for publication with other items, please e-mail the digital files to press@kiowacountypress.com. You can also mail or drop off files on floppy disk, CD, or Zip Disk. If you do not have access to e-mail and have photos from a film-based camera, bring or mail the photos to us and a staff member will do the necessary processing for use in the newspaper. Please do not send pictures that have been imported to Microsoft Word files – these pictures will not print legibly, and it takes a considerable amount of time to extract them and try to get them to appear correctly.

If you have submitted a photo to the Kiowa County Press and would like it back, stop by the office and you can pick it up. We will ONLY mail the original back to you if you include a stamped self-address envelope. Otherwise you may pick up the photo during regular office hours at your convenience. Photographs submitted to us for the newspaper are usually available for pick up the following week after it appears in the Press.

The Kiowa County Press will be closed Thursday, November 27 and Friday, November 28 to observe the Thanksgiving holiday with family. We will re-open Monday, December 1 at 8:00 a.m.

The Press will also be closed to the public Thursday, December 25 through Sunday, January 4 for the Christmas and New Year holidays, inventory work, and computer upgrades. Remember if you have items for December 26 and January 2 issues of the Press, the deadlines for submission is Monday, December 22 for advertising and Tuesday, December 23 at 10 a.m. for articles. If you have an emergency, you may call the office at 719-438-5800 and leave a message, as we will be checking our voice mail during that week.