From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 29 19:56:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 69AC937B400 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 19:55:52 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 43850 invoked by uid 100); 30 Jan 2001 03:55:51 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14966.15175.648493.198122@guru.mired.org> Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 21:55:51 -0600 (CST) To: Shill Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Paper version of the handbook In-Reply-To: <99557382@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Shill types: > I want a paper copy of the latest version. I went to kinko's and > they quoted me a price of $60 to print it! I would have thought it > was much cheaper to print 787 pages (394 sheets recto verso). I was > thinking around 7 cents a sheet so my estimate was in the $30 price > range. Sigh. Yeah - that 7 cents a sheet price is single sided - it nearly doubles when you go double sided. And don't forget the cost of binding the thing. > Has anyone ever paid to print the handbook? Can I get a better price > than $60? Where? If you live near a large university, check and see if they have a print shop that can handle jobs of that size. The one near me charges around 9 cents a page for duplex, but more than Kinkos does for binding. I made up a CDRW of all the pdf files, and a printed sheet of instructions for printing & binding, and it worked like a charm. Which is why I just bought a duplexer for my printer. Not that I want to print the handbook, but so blasted much software and hardware is coming with documentation as PDF on CD-ROM that I want printed copies of. Thousands of pages over the last year. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message