stevendom57 Posted October 12, 2020 Report Share Posted October 12, 2020 Are the Cruise Compasses printed onboard or are they printed beforehand? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
princevaliantus Posted October 12, 2020 Report Share Posted October 12, 2020 6 minutes ago, stevendom57 said: Are the Cruise Compasses printed onboard or are they printed beforehand? They are printed onboard. DDaley and stevendom57 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twangster Posted October 12, 2020 Report Share Posted October 12, 2020 They have a pretty impressive printing press capability on board. On a couple of occasions I've missed a port or they changed timing for something like going the Panama Canal so they reprint a new cruise compasses for the day and distribute it midday. The CD usually makes an announcement to keep an eye out for it. The weather forecast is usually found on the front page and not something that can be printed a week or two before. The CD staff routinely make changes to events so they pretty much have to be printed on board. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDaley Posted October 12, 2020 Report Share Posted October 12, 2020 10 minutes ago, twangster said: They have a pretty impressive printing press capability on board. That is so awesome! The print shops I usually work with have digital offset presses that take up an entire ROOM in their warehouse, I would love to see RC's, probably pretty innovative. Elzbeth 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevendom57 Posted October 12, 2020 Author Report Share Posted October 12, 2020 46 minutes ago, DDaley said: They have a pretty impressive printing press capability on board I thought they would have to but it seems it would need to be pretty elaborate, considering it's on a moving vessel. I too would like to see it. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twangster Posted October 13, 2020 Report Share Posted October 13, 2020 I'm guessing it's stuffed into a compressed space since it's not something that most cruisers would be interested in. I'll try to remember to inquire if I ever get back on board a ship any time soon. DDaley 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted October 13, 2020 Report Share Posted October 13, 2020 I just assumed it's a glorified Xerox machine. There's a PC with the template, and it collates? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevendom57 Posted October 13, 2020 Author Report Share Posted October 13, 2020 22 minutes ago, Matt said: I just assumed it's a glorified Xerox machine. I initially though so too, but the Cruise Compass is folded and collated. That's a little more elaborate. It's just something to ponder instead of asking "Is my November cruise going to sail?". DDaley, 4ensic and USFFrank 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew72681 Posted October 13, 2020 Report Share Posted October 13, 2020 It’ll be interesting to see how that space is used going forward. -many lines including RC and their app have been moving away from printed pages -menus will almost certainly be QR code’s at least for a while - Cruise Compasses are there to generate ad revenue especially with shopping destinations. If for the short or long term only RC sponsored excursions will be allowed, there won’t be Venturing off to go shopping on your own. WAAAYTOOO 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twangster Posted October 13, 2020 Report Share Posted October 13, 2020 On some ships there are inserts, sometimes half width, sometimes full width, so while it' isn't a full printing press that can do anything a full press shop can produce, it probably also does the MDR menus, pub menus, etc. and it can print off several thousand so I don't thinks it's a fancy laser printer in the CD's office. I don't imagine it's a room full of gear either. The app struggled to be accurate which I think was a resource issue. Towards the end of 2019 and early 2020 they put dedicated crew on each ship to manage the digital content. I think the CD staff simply didn't have the hours in the day to update paper compasses and update the app to keep everything in sync. This led to activities like Captain's Corner being in the app on the wrong day, wrong venue or wrong time while the paper compass was always correct. CK menus were in the app wrong and the CK manager commented how she would have bring it to their attention again, like she has been struggling with that department and getting corrections made in the app. Without a pandemic I would have said the paper compass had a long future but maybe now they'll refocus more energy to electronic guides on cabin TVs and in the app. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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