Speaking of paper...is there a way that we could make sure that the book was printed on as much recycled paper as possible?
=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Jason aka, Axelilly Catch me on gchat or Jabber =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= 2009/1/17 Keiran Smith <[email protected]> > I would also go paperback it seems to be conciderally more affordable. > However it seems to have a bad habbit of falling appart. > > 2009/1/16 Ian Weller <[email protected]> > >> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:47:20PM -0800, Doug Berry wrote: >> > Hey Community, >> > >> > Sorry I did not get back sooner. My friend at >> > LSI called my cell phone -- I was waiting for >> > an email. Did not check my messages until today. >> > >> > The gist of what she said is that we can indeed >> > do a hard cover full color book, but we would >> > have to do so using off-set printing. >> > >> > And she could not give a cost estimate, because >> > the cost would depend on how much color and the >> > degree of difficulty for the printer in setting >> > up the book. >> > >> > Off-set would probably create a much better >> > looking book, as far as image quality goes. >> > It is the industry standard for printing high >> > quality books. >> > >> > But using off-set, each color page would >> > require that four separate plates would have >> > to be made to produce a color image. Blue, red, >> > yellow, and black is the way they used to describe >> > it, but now it is CMYK (short for cyan, magenta, >> > yellow, and key (black) We could, however, use >> > a mixture of b&w and color pages. Then we would pay >> > less for the b&w pages that don't have color on them. >> > >> > Still, since we are not driven to make a >> > huge profit off of each book, we could adjust >> > the book price to allow for the additional >> > printing costs. >> > >> With the current state of the economy and everything I want to make >> these books as affordable as possible to the consumers. >> >> I think paperback with color pages is the way to go. But we can vote or >> whatever on that later. >> >> More importantly, we need to decide the requirements for photos in the >> book. Nicu, can you help us out on that? >> >> Also I'm getting prepared on how tos on uploading photos to the wiki, >> release forms, etc. Once that's ready to roll, we'll have a process >> worked out for contributing your photos and stories to the book. >> >> -- >> Ian Weller <[email protected]> http://ianweller.org >> GnuPG fingerprint: E51E 0517 7A92 70A2 4226 B050 87ED 7C97 EFA8 4A36 >> "Technology is a word that describes something that doesn't work yet." >> ~ Douglas Adams >> >> -- >> Fedora-marketing-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list >> > > > > -- > Keiran Smith > - Fedora Ambassador / BugZapper - <[email protected]> > - Free Software Foundation Associate - <[email protected]> > > -- > Fedora-marketing-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-marketing-list >
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