[HacktionLab] Quote for printing book in Oxford

[Mike Harris]

Very generous offer G.  Back at the Oxford HackLab in April everyone
said they'd be up for contributing something, around a tenner on average.

Black ink with a colour cover works out at 208.  As there doesn't seem
to be much cost break in doing 2,000 copies, Perhaps we should do a 1000
to start with?

Anyone else printing at the moment anywhere else at the moment?

Lastly, Ana/Mara, how is the reformatting going - the links etc that
Mara spoke of?  Are you guys doing this or do we need to find someone
else to put their hand up and definitely say that they are up for being
responsible for getting it finished and out there?

Cheers,

Mike.

On 05/11/2010 20:23, penguin wrote:
> Hey
> 
> Here's the quote for printing the book. I'm happy(ish) to do the
> finishing, but realistically would only have 1 day to do it before
> BradLab (so, unless I can recruit other Oxfordians, I could get 500 done
> to bring to BL, the rest (if more were wanted) would be done a week or
> two after).
> 
> I can also chuck £100 towards costs.
> 
> Do people wanna go with this, or another printer.
> 
> G
> 
> Printing costs:
> 500 x 32pp A5 booklets, black ink on white 100gsm paper = £103
> 1000 x 32pp A5 booklets, black ink on white 100gsm paper = £188
> 2000 x 32pp A5 booklets, black ink on white 100gsm paper = £359
> 
> 500 x 32pp A5 booklets, 2 colour ink on white 100gsm paper = £149
> 1000 x 32pp A5 booklets, 2 colour ink on white 100gsm paper = £274
> 2000 x 32pp A5 booklets, 2 colour ink on white 100gsm paper = £526
> (eg if headings were in red ink and text was in black - we have black,
> red, green, blue available).
> 
> Cover:
> Optional extra: print the cover on 170gsm thin card instead of 100gsm
> paper. Or coloured card of similar weight, depending on what we have
> available.
> 500: add £10
> 1000: add £20
> 2000: add £40
> 
> Finishing:
> If people are happy to do the folding, collating and stapling
> themselves, I'd be happy to let them use GreenPrint machines, show them
> how, and do the trimming/guillotining. It would take approx 8.5h to
> fold, collate and staple 500 (17h for 1000, 34h for 2000).
> 
> Alternatively, I could send it off to a finishing company, which would
> cost roughly:
> 500: add £100
> 1000: add £150
> 2000: add £200
> 
> So, for example, 500 B+W with thin card covers, including finishing
> would be £103 + £10 + £100 = £213.
> 
> Once I know the quantity I can order the paper in (takes 1-2 days).
> After that, the printing won't take too long, but the finishing
> potentially will!
> 
> Forgot to say: obviously there is the option of mixing 1 colour (ie
> black) and 2 colour printing, eg just using 2 colours on the outside
> cover. To work out prices for that, do a weighted average of the two
> options eg (15/16 x £103) + (1/16 x £149) if 1 out of 16 spreads were 2
> colour.
> 

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