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<div>Jumping in on the issue of printing...my advice is to print a working copy at home to see what changes you might like to make in layout and content. When it is "camera ready", take it to one of the commercial printshops (Kinkos, etc) and have the copies printed. In my experience it has always been significantly cheaper to do it this way when you consider the cost of toner and paper for home printer/copier. One suggestion that I have is to make a few family copies punched for 3-ring binder...then as additional information, corrections (and believe me, there are always corrections once distant relatives begin to read the family history!) and photos appear through the years, it is easy to add them to the original and to mail out "updates" to those who have a continued interest in the family saga.</div>
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<div class=AOLPlainTextBody id=AOLMsgPart_0_e7f18dcf-bcf6-4309-b462-62b8f6815fd8><PRE><TT>If LazerQuick is like Kinkos or AlphaGraphics or Staples or OfficeMax. . . --
I'd say go see them.
With a book that size, you could pretty easily do it at home, if you don't care
about "back to back" --
but I always have a challenge with that issue on my printer (well, make that my
brain, but who cares? <G>)
Doing a PDF is a great idea -- that way the pages are stable, so no "orphans"
going from one page to the
other.
Anyway, consider the cost of your time, and the ink/paper, and frustration if
you do it wrong. Then,
compare that to the outside print house.
Now, I will say, that if it has color, it will be much more costly to have it
printed. But, if you do
that, again, the PDF is your friend. Have the whole thing printed B/W, and then
the color pages printed
separately. They can be inserted later.
This means you can't have the job fully automated, but it still will work
better, and much cheaper, to not
pay for color for B/W pages.
Good luck,
Pat (in Tucson)
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|[<A href="mailto:or-roots-admin%40sosinet.sos.state.or.us">mailto:or-roots-admin@sosinet.sos.state.or.us</A>] On Behalf Of
|SUZANNE THOMAS
|Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 20:42
|To: <A href="mailto:or-Roots%40www.sos.state.or.us">or-Roots@www.sos.state.or.us</A>
|Subject: [or-roots] Where to get a book printed?
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|I have created a book from Family Tree Maker. I can convert
|it to PDF to
|have it printed. It is about 60 pages long.
|
|Where is the best place to go to get this printed? Should I just use
|something like LazerQuick? I can print it here at home and
|will be looking
|at the cost of paper, toner, drum, etc to compare.
|
|thanks,
|
|Suzanne
|Clark, Clarke, Sims, Lambert
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