They are experimenting with that now at selected dealers. There is a
central server that the dealer can download charts from and print them
out on a special wide format printer with waterproof ink. That has a
lot of advantages for the dealer because he does not need to keep
inventory and for us because it makes the charts a lot more current. It
does not however mean we will be paying much less for the charts.

Steve wrote:
Now, how about releasing the high resolution .tif files of the chart
scans...

With the, now, reasonable cost of scanner/reproduciton costs at copy shops,
we could download and print our own charts..

Oh! I think I hear that they are going to do that but we will have to go to
a licensed chart agent to print them out.. Sounds like another under the
table arrangement between NOAA and a group of chart agents.

The always skeptical,

Steve
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