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Poster:	digitaldallas	Date:	Jul 17, 2007 3:29pm
Forum:	bookmobile	Subject:	Re: Bookmobile technology and status

Hello:

Black & White is the only way to go as far as keeping your costs down at this point on the guts(internal pages). We have a color digital press that is made for commercial printing and our consumable costs(ink, blanket,etc.)per 12 x18 sheet is .09 per side. You will have a hard time getting to that with any type of printer and that does not include the cost of the actual machine or maintenance.

As a reference you would struggle to get to .25-.30 per page for color but you should be able to get to .01 per page for black & white. Just thought it might help to have some cost insights. If you could get into the right PR or marketing person on this I would think you could get a company to donate a printer for the publicity you could give them.

Good Luck.

Buzz
The Odee Company - Digital Color Printing Services
http://www.odeecompany.com/digital-color-printing.asp

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Poster:	brewster	Date:	Jul 18, 2007 9:14am
Forum:	bookmobile	Subject:	Re: Bookmobile technology and status

You are right. for all the books the Internet Archive is making we are producing a monochrome version for printing on b/w printers for this exact reason.

we hope they will be useful.

-brewster