Did you know flies can be copied on both Panasonic and Canon color copiers? Panasonic produces something much more like a color drawing, with shading and colors that tend toward process, rather than true tones. It is a pretty effect, however. Canon provides enlargements up to 400%, but there is often a problem with masking and an unwanted (often blue) shadow appears. But the colors are excellent ---golds are gold, silvers silver, and the golden-pheasant crest is not yellow (as with Panasonic) but deep gold with pink tips.

In the Seattle area, and probably elsewhere, a price war is going on, with single copies ranging from 79 cents to a dollar, and so-called set-up fees are waived. Often employees at the copy store will experiment a little free of charge and take pride in doing a good job, to get some repeat business. And color copies are a good way for friends to exchange flies too valuable to be given away and for tiers to retain an image of a favorite fly that is to be sold.