Suggestions for Contributors to Parker Pages

Parker Pages  receives and publishes material sent in many forms. Most articles submitted are received as email attachments, and a very few are received by mail as typed manuscripts or written notes accompanied by glossy photos. We continue to solicit and publish material prepared in any form. Typed or hand written material must be arranged and formatted by the editor; if it arrives shortly before  Parker Pages  closing dates (15 January, 30 April, 15 July, and 15 October)  that material may be more carefully prepared and published in a later issue. The most rapid preparation can be done with text provided as email attachments in MS Word format. We strongly encourage all submissions to be done through email with text attached in a Word format and photos attached as .JPG. Please do not send any text to be printed as a body of an email. Please attach it to an email in a text file.

Please send no more than a dozen pictures to illustrate your article or story. The editor must spend a significant amount of time in choosing which pictures to use, cropping the pictures, and enhancing the pictures for publication. Too many pictures to review causes the process to be severely bogged down because of the time involved in editing pictures. It is better that contributors select only the pictures they would like to see illustrating their article to send to the editor – keeping in mind that only from one or two pictures to only a dozen will be used, depending on available space in a particular issue.

Glossy prints from film are always welcome, However, to ensure timely processing of photos on our end, we prefer to have the photos emailed to us in either a zip file or as 3 to 4 photos attached to an email. We recommend setting your cell phone camera or digital camera to the highest setting when taking photos for your article. This will assure a sharp image when printed in The Parker Pages.

Please do not send text documents with embedded graphics or pictures as these will have been compressed to fit in the document and are much too small for publication. The publisher requires 300 pixels per inch to print pictures of comparable quality to those printed from film. As a guide, the block displayed when you select a picture from desktop with Micro Soft Picture Manager shows "Dimensions" on the top line. These dimensions must be 1200 X 1800 pixels per inch or greater to produce sharpness approximating that of a 4 x 6 inch glossy print. The dimensions must exceed these numbers if a small section of the photo is to be enlarged. Large format digital cameras, such as the Nikon D70, collect pictures at dimensions of 2000 x 3000 ppi and individuals can be enlarged from groups, and grade can be recognized from a photo of a person holding a Parker with these dimensions. For example, HP "Photosmart" scanners are adjustable to scan at dimensions exceeding 300 ppi. Our experience indicates 600 ppi, or more, may be necessary in order to capture detail of old Parker Catalogs or documents.

Please, when preparing to send pictures by e-mail, right click on the picture and select ‘rename’. Please, when renaming a picture, include your name, or the serial number of the gun, or the title of your article when renaming the picture so that the pictures can be more easily identified when the editor searches his ‘download’ file for your pictures.

The Parker Pages editor may be able to assist contributors with photographing guns or other Parker-related items.  

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