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Subject: Re: Aggravating manuals
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Date: Wed, 30-Sep-87 01:19:35 EDT
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|> extra for binders.  After all, how much *can* they cost? ...
|
|You'd be surprised.  Production of square-bound softbound books is very
|highly automated and hence quite cheap.  Almost anything else means manual
|operations and the price skyrockets.

There was an article in a computer magazine a while back where Philipe Kahn
(Mr. Borland :-) told how "perfect" bound books were made.  These manuals are
literaly untouched by human hands!  They are printed, cut, bound, drilled,
shrink-wrapped, and crated by machines.  Adding a 3 ring binder requires a
PERSON to pick up each manual and place it in the binder.  If you want them
to actually put it on the rings it takes even more time!  Time is money.
I think he said that his order of 1000 manuals cost $500 for "perfect" bound,
but > $5000 if 3-ring bound!

I know from experience that a 250 page book SPIRAL bound costs $3.50 in qty
500 to 750, so the $5.00 for 3-ring sounds like it is in the ballpark.