[sdiy] From Bernie of Electronotes

[Tom Bugs]

You may be surprised by current print on demand options.
I tried Lulu a few times before for Thomas Henry publications - all 
seemed very good and reasonable price (some years back now)
And recently have been ordering ring-bound manuals for particular pieces 
of equipment from downloaded PDFs - eg. large 200+ B&W manual 
double-sided print etc ringbound cost less than £20 inc. VAT and 
postage. It is very convenient for people who like physical copies.

If (and it is a big IF) a hi-res PDF is generated (large file fine - no 
need for this OCR or whatever it is called) and sent to distro source 
(lulu or a single trusted person per region) this could generate printings.

Costs - no damn idea! Clearly it is a large task to digitize everything 
(inc some rusty staples).

I think that basically goes along with Bernie's old statement on 
somebody digitizing it -- ie. still waiting for someone to step up and 
make it happen viably.
I think the printing infrastructure now exists that it could easily be 
printed/distributed IF the files are digitized.

I never got the full package - just the Preferred Circuits & Builders 
guides, but then the parcel was filled up with many other copies due to 
the flat rate shipping - I got a lot for sure! I always meant to upgrade 
to the full package - easily ordered new prints would be welcomed.

On 26/06/2017 22:22, KA4HJH wrote:
> I think we can safely assume that a print run is never going to happen. Aside from the fact that Bernie already has piles of photocopies, does anyone here realize how much a short print run would cost? A plate has to be made for every page. Then there's the cost of setting up each plate for a small offset press. OK, what if only the BG and PCC were printed–how many pages is that? Insanely expensive for such a low-demand publication. The only good thing is that the plates could be burned directly from printed pages. No scanning etc.
>
> Medium volume inkjet printing or print-on-demand? Much cheaper but all those pages would still have to scanned, printed, collated, and then drilled or bound. $-$-$
>
> And if there were a digital version some joker would  _buy_  a copy,, crack it, and put it on The Pirate Bay less than a week after it was published. Who wants to digitize thousands of pages just to have torrents freely available everywhere a month later?
>
> Because EN consists of punched pages in a three ring binder it can lay flat. I highly prefer having the printed copy lying open on the table while I'm plugging stuff into a solderless breadboard. EN is exactly the sort of document I would want in this form so I can flip the pages back and forth rapidly. Ebooks are fine for novels and history but EN? Not my cup of tea.
>
> All that having been said, there is one thing that would useful for everyone: an index. That would still require a raw scan/OCR of everything.
>
>
> Terry Bowman, KA4HJH
> "The Mac Doctor"
>
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