From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: A paper manual
Date: 29 Oct 1998 12:19:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m31znraa3w.fsf@sparky.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: wmperry@aventail.com's message of "28 Oct 1998 13:18:29 -0500"
wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry) writes:
> Well, I talked to them yesterday, and they said for anything under ~500
> copies, the price would be prohibitive. For a book that large, they'd have
> to do it on a big press (print 4 8.5x11 sheets on one large one and
> trim/fold, etc), which still means 75 separate plates for the press, and
> they cost ~$10 apiece. That would be a one-time charge, but a biggie.
> Then you have minimum charges for press time (setup & cleanup are pretty
> static, and runs of 100-200 are hardly worth doing).
Right. I was afraid one would have to do Serious Print Runs to get
anything resembling a reasonable price...
Oh, well. Perhaps the FSF will do one. :-)
Thanks for investigating.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-10-29 11:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-10-09 10:52 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-10-09 11:15 ` Kai Haberzettl
1998-10-09 11:38 ` Jes Sorensen
1998-10-09 12:24 ` Norman Walsh
1998-10-09 13:12 ` William M. Perry
1998-10-10 23:04 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-10-23 21:45 ` William Perry
1998-10-24 5:06 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-10-28 18:18 ` William M. Perry
1998-10-29 11:19 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
1998-10-09 13:19 ` Karel Sprenger
1998-10-09 15:35 ` Alan Shutko
1998-10-09 21:03 ` Harry Putnam
1998-10-10 23:05 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-10-11 14:28 ` Per Abrahamsen
1998-10-09 22:04 ` Jeremy D. Zawodny
1998-10-09 22:20 ` Jeremy D. Zawodny
1998-10-10 5:25 ` David Hedbor
1998-10-11 19:09 ` SL Baur
1998-10-13 4:11 ` Chris Tessone
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