8" x 10" transparencies are acceptable waterinstallationsandsculptures for color and grayscale scanning. While 35mm slides may become "grainy" when enlarged, transparencies 2 1/4" size and up will reproduce extremely well in most cases. If possible, specify to your photographer to use 2 1/4" format or 35mm film intended for extreme enlargement. Full Color and Grayscale Scans: Continuous-tone art is most commonly submitted in the form of transparencies, photographs, or negatives taken by a professional photographer. Supplying preprinted artwork such as a magazine page or a printout from a color printer is highly discouraged. "Rescreening" this type of art will result in either a moire pattern and/or a blurry image. Scans for Recreating Artwork: Client waterinstallationsandsculptures supplied artwork is often submitted as black and white "slicks" or printed material such as stationary, decals, promotional pieces, etc. This art is scanned as a "template" with the intention of recreating it in Adobe Illustrator. The finished art can contain one or more colors and varying tones of those colors. While a scanning charge does not usually apply, an art charge to recreate the image may. The complexity of the image as well as the quality of the supplied original will have a direct effect on art charges.

"It took us 68 years -- from 1926 to 1994 -- to reach $50 billion in assets and just over four more years to more than double that amount," McFerson noted. Assets include Nationwide''s property-casualty, life, health and annuity businesses.

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