Printed manuals

[samiam95124]

For anyone with the interest, I can provide a set of printed and perfect bound manuals, 8 1/2 by 11 inches. See the wiki for a photo. I use bound material here locally, and would be happy to provide manuals for others at my materials cost (non-profit). I used a calculation based on 3 cents per page, which many sources list as the net printing cost per page of black and white laser copy, considering paper, toner, printer maintenance, etc. There is also Cafe press perfect binding at 10 cents per page, in case you want to print and bind by an outside service[1].

The manuals shipped will be identical to the electronic copies in the archive at the time I receive the request. You can get as many versions as you want by reordering. I recommend waiting for new versions to come out.

The costs are:

Cost of materials and shipping for Pascal-P6 manual set

$6.92	Postage, media mail
$1.34	Envelope
808     Total pages in manual
$0.03	Cost per page[2]
$24.24	Total cost to print
		
$32.50	Total cost

If you want a copy, please contact me at: [email protected].

The US postal service gives a special "medial mail" rate that is the same regardless of location in the USA (I suppose to encourage reading). For addresses outside the USA, please email me, and given the destination address, and I will find a rate and reply with it.

[1] The covers, in 19x11 inches, are in the /doc directory as xxx_cover.docx. I use Microsoft word to print them.
[2] I found estimates for cost per page of laser printout all over the map, from 1 to 10 cents. I choose what seemed like a reasonable average on the low side.

[samiam95124]

Update on this: I managed to get my old Triumph cutter working, its been gathering dust for about 10 years. I then followed that up by working out a shrink program (program that resizes the books).

The result is that now I can ship these out as 9x7 inch manuals. I find that this is a far easier to manage size than 11x8.5 inches. This change is not optional, all manuals will be printed in this format.

The cost to print does not change, since it uses the same paper and materials, it is just cut down.

All of the material needed to print these manuals yourself is in the repo. The editor in use now is libreoffice writer, with .odt extensions. The cover is also there, and now has the 9x7 format.

You can print using either the 11x8.5 format (the normal .pdf format) or 9x7. I only use the 9x7 format.