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Graphics

The Raymond H. & Robert H. Borkenhagen Center for New Media Design, located on the first floor of Upjohn Library Commons, supports Kalamazoo College faculty, staff and students in the creation of materials for course projects or other college-related activities, including multimedia presentations, posters, images, web pages, and other graphics. The hours of operation are Monday - Friday, 8am-5pm.

Hardware and Software

The Center has seven computers (four PC and three Mac). There is also a light table and cutting table (10' x 5') available to use.

Software

Adobe Photoshop CS3 ~ digital imaging software
Adobe Illustrator CS3 ~ vector graphics software
Adobe InDesign CS3 ~ design professional layouts for print and digital publishing
Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional ~ create PDF files
Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 ~ build websites and web applications
Adobe Flash Professional CS3 ~ create rich internet content and applications
Microsoft Office ~ application suite of spreadsheet, presentation, word processing
OmniPage Pro 14.0 ~ OCR (optical character recognition) software

Hardware


Model


Film Recorder
Polaroid Pro Palette 8000 ~ create 35mm slides from digital images
Printers
HP Color Laserjet 5500dn ~ letter, legal, tabloid printing (duplex available)
Epson Stylus 9800 Professional ~ large format color printing up to 44" wide
Epson Stylus 4800 ~ medium format color printing up to 17" wide
Scanners
Epson Expression 1680 ~ legal-size flatbed scanner
Epson Expression 1640XL Graphic Arts ~ tabloid-size flatbed scanner
HP Scanjet N8460 ~ OCR scanner
Nikon Super Coolscan 5000 ~ slide and negative scanner
Laminator
laminate items up to 24" wide
Poster Enlargements
create posters of b/w 8.5"x11" printed materials