On Wednesday 06 December 2006 09:39, jdd wrote:
Randall R Schulz a écrit :
Basically, a PDF suitable for bound printing is not one you'd use for on-line viewing or for small-scale, non-bound printing on laser printers at home or in the typical office.
yes, but no :-)
yes - certainly, if you manage to work with a Local print store, they will ask you more than usual pdf.
no - for the king of use I mean of, nobody asks you anything. usually you have neither any people to help you, only a seat and a windows computer. chance if you get a R°V° printer :-).
I have no idea what a "R°V° printer" is. I have worked in PostScript and PDF-driven phototypesetting software in the past, but it's been about 10 years and I'm sure things have changed significantly since then.
So future shops will deal with simple pdf and hopefull new xml standard documents
Yes. We can agree that the future will be different than the present. We can probably also agree that had the past been different than it was, the present would be different than it is. But... So what? I think sufficiently widespread adoption of the still very young Open Document standard is far enough off that support from consumer printing services such as FedEx/Kinko's is not something we could base current plans upon.
the result is far from the high standard SuSE was giving, but much better than the injet printer one (and much more affordable, injet printing is extremely expensive)
Ink-jet printing is just plain stupid. I suppose for the occasional color page when the volume would not justify a color laser printer, it might conceivably possibly make sense, but basically, it's a horrible, horrible technology with poor output quality and grossly expensive consumables.
available, but it would need to be done to enable end-user printing of bound manuals at local, low-volume print shops (e.g., FedEx / Kinko's in the States).
may somebody in the states could contact such inline book printing shop to ask what they could do for such work (we could probably through a LUG order some hundred copies) - given Novall gives us the right to do so (questionable - no problem for individuals, but for non profit small print?)
For North Americans (US only?), this is probably a good option: http://www.fedex.com/us/officeprint/main/. It appears they have software, sadly for Windows only, that prepares documents for submission to their local printing services. I suspect that we'd have to meet them more than half way, either by using that Windows software or by somehow producing suitable PDF files for them. I have a little experience with Kinko's. They were able to take a PDF page with my business cards, replicated and with cut marks and no gutters, and turn them into business cards (my first pass had gutters, but they said it would be easier without them, so I changed the PDF accordingly). So I think they have some flexibility. It may also depend on how knowledgeable and service-oriented the staff is at a particular store whether they can handle a given PDF file for bound printing.
jdd
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