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From: chuq%plaid@Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
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Subject: Re: Xerography or Offset?
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Date: Fri, 8-May-87 12:58:12 EDT
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From: rochester!steinmetz!davidsen@steinmetz..arpa (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Date: 7 May 87 15:04:07 GMT
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY

In article <18148@sun.uucp> chuq%plaid@Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach) writes:
>From:  desktop%plaid@sun.com
>
>Here's an interesting question for folks out there.  OtherRealms is
>currently running about 28 pages a month, and I'm printig 100-150 copies
>depending on comps. That runs to 2800-2500 pages/month, which I'm currently
>doing at a copy shop to the tune of about $100/month in copying costs.
>
>The question I'm turning over in my mind is this.  Since OtherRealms is
>about to go quarterly with an expanded (about 76-80 page) format, I have to
>decide if I want to stick with Xerography or go offset with a real printer.
>And if I stick with Xerography, do I want to continue shelling out $100/mo
>in costs, or do I want to buy a machine and do it myself?

I'll stick out my neck and say that you will probably find a copy shop
cheaper (particularly if you value your time at all for collating, etc). I
would suspect that your best option would be to product the masters on a
good publishing system, and either digitize the photos and put them where
you want, or just put them in manually. Good copy equipment will do photos
if they are halftoned, and you can get a scanner for <$1000 which should
be adequate (~300 dpi).

I'm sure you will get a lot of contradictory advice on this one!

-- 
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