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Printing (Big) Manuals?

Posted by timothy on from the well-stop-doing-that dept.

Detritus writes "Many companies have stopped providing hardcopy manuals with their products, electing instead to deliver the manuals in the form of PDF files. This becomes a problem when you have an 800 page reference manual and you need a usable hardcopy that is double-side printed and bound. What is the most cost-effective way of turning a PDF file into a bound document? Cheap ink-jet printers are not designed to do this task at a reasonable speed and cost."

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  1. Drive around... by Jarn_Firebrand · · Score: 2, Funny

    until you find a company that works with printers. Sneak in, act like an employee, and tell them you're "testing" the printers... then print what you need and get out of there quickly!

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  2. Re:Work? by dougmc · · Score: 2, Funny
    Right, just as cheap IDE drives aren't designed to serve the Enterprise.
    Cheap IDE drives serve the `Enterprise' (I assume we're talking about a business, not a naval ship, space shuttle or star ship, even though you've capitialized it like it's a proper name) far better than cheap ink jets do. When you work out the per-page cost, low-end ink jets are *expensive*, mostly due to the ink which costs thousands of dollars per ounce when you do the math.

    Even the cheap modern IDE drives are pretty good. SCSI (and maybe fiber channel, though I have no experience with FC) is still king, but even the consumer grade IDE drives can generally handle a good database pounding.

    I'd go all SCSI, but IDE is almost an order of magnitude cheaper now, so in many cases it makes good sense to just do RAID-1 with IDE, even in the `enterprise'.

  3. Re:One word: Kinko's by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny
    You seem pretty familar with the capitalist calculations of price and volume, Castro . Didn't you really mean to say "The state saw fit to provide me for my needs a P3-600mhz with 256 ram" ? How would you know the price ?

    You aren't the REAL Fidel Castro at all. I call you out as an impostor.

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