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Date:      Mon, 29 Jan 2001 21:55:51 -0600 (CST)
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To:        Shill <fake@verizon.net>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Paper version of the handbook
Message-ID:  <14966.15175.648493.198122@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <99557382@toto.iv>

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Shill <fake@verizon.net> 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.

	<mike
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