I have been told by LUG members that many print shops
are setup to take books composed in TeX. Also, that
many technical journals specify that submissions be
in TeX. When they can take it right off your computer
and it is already typeset, I imagine that their costs
are much lower.
Having a small, local printer do limited editions is
a nice way to make some Art-books, or even special
edition Linux booklets that contain information that
is local to a certain area -- like how to connect a
Linux box to a local ISP, or University, and get
email and news going, for example. These can be sold
to new LUG members to either raise money for the LUG
or to cover the costs of the printing.
Back in the mid-80's I worked for a small printer in
the bindery, and he did lots of small edition runs
for churches, and so forth. So I don't think it is
too uncommon.
Robin Miller wrote:
>
> There's a small publisher here in Baltimore that has gone into the "books
> to order" printing business, using some sort of automated copier/binder
> setup. I can't remember his name, which is sad. It'll come to me.
>
> Robin Miller
> Robin's Limousine
> www.primenet.com/~roblimo
> "This Old PC"
> http://cgi.pathfinder.com/netly/oldpc
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