Not an option. Kinko's would charge 7 cents per side, creating a cost of 10.50 per copy. I don't have $2,500 in my budget for this project. My cost per page for toner is 1/4 of one cent per page. More important, as the professor once opined about the climate in Africa, "it eats books." Therefore, the paper must be heavy duty. And I have already purchased the paper (108 gsm).
I think I need some way to massage the PDF into a more svelte appearance. It needs either a girdle or a diet, and fast. On a deeper level, I need to discover ways to print DTP files from Linux. On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 06:18:39 +0000 [email protected] dijo: > I don't know but it seems that taking your one copy to kinkos would be cost > equivalent to printing 250 copies of a 150 page document in terms of paper > and toner...Not to mention your sanity. > Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry > > -----Original Message----- > From: John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> > Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:08:44 > To: PLUG<[email protected]> > Subject: [PLUG] Questions re lpr and imaging > > I have a 90 MB PDF file that was supplied to me by the assistant to a > PSU professor. I need to print 250 copies of this 152 page file to a > Laserjet 8000DN (Clonescript 2.0, gobs of RAM, all the options). And my > Jaunty x86_64 computer has a dual-core 2GHz CPU and 4 GB of RAM. > > The problem is that the file was created in Adobe InDesign by someone > who had never used InDesign before. Worse, while she is a great artist, > she has little concept of outputting images to lasers. The file has > hundreds of TIFF images at 300 dpi. All I have is the PDF; I have no > access to the original and, even if I did, the last version of InDesign > that I have is CS, where she used CS4. > > So I am struggling trying to get output from this file within my > remaining lifetime. Oh, did I mention that the professor needs to take > the copies with him when he leaves for Africa on October 24? > > I can print from Adobe Reader 9.1, but it takes 25 minutes for the > print job to start printing, and 24 minutes for one copy to print. The > printer is rated at 24 ppm and a normal 152 page file takes about eight > minutes per copy. And "RIP once, print many" doesn't work from Linux, > so each copy is re-imaged over and over; that is, each subsequent copy > takes as long to print as the first copy. > > If I print from Okular I can shave a couple minutes off those figures, > but it's still hopeless. Worse, Okular's number of copies dialog box is > broken. You can specify any number you want, but you're going to get > one copy. > > Evince does even worse than Adobe Reader 9.1 > > Foxit Reader is even worse than Evince. > > So I spent half an hour printing to .ps file from Okular. Now I am > trying to send the .ps file with lpr, but it's not going anywhere at > all. I am using the following command: > > lpr -P Laserjet_8000_Series -#4 -o Collate=True -o media=letter -o > sides=two-sided-long-edge ~/Kim\ \&\ Bom/Full\ Bom\ primer\ 15\ Oct\ 09 > \ 2.ps > > The command executes reasonably quickly, and a print job then appears > in Manage Print Jobs. But the print job appears to go nowhere. When I > look in System Monitor nothing is doing anything. I mean, if > Ghostscript or some other process was wailing along at 100% CPU I'd > feel that at least something was happening. Cupsd sits and does > nothing, and nothing else that sounds like it has anything to do with > printing is doing anything. At the same time grep is sucking down one > of the CPU cores at close to 50%. Grep? What does grep have to do with > printing? > > If anyone knows how to kick lpr in the butt, I'd like to know. Any > other suggestions are also welcome. > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
