[Info-vax] HP stopping VMS paper documentation ?

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 11/24/2011 2:21 PM, John Wallace wrote:
> On Nov 24, 4:11 pm, "Richard B. Gilbert"<rgilber... at comcast.net>
> wrote:
>> On 11/24/2011 10:08 AM, MG wrote:
>>
>>> On 24-11-2011 14:30, Michael Kraemer wrote:
>>>> Not at all.
>>>> You'll have to print it yourself.
>>
>>> With the current ink and toner cartridge prices...?
>>
>>>> And for that you need: An HP printer and HP ink cartridges.
>>
>>> Most people (in my experience, from what I've seen at university
>>> and elsewhere) who, nowadays, want to print large documents go to
>>> print shops. It's not exactly cheap, but still much cheaper than
>>> to 'print it yourself'.
>>
>>> - MG
>>
>> The price, per copy, goes down as quantities go up.  If you want 400
>> copies of a large document you can probably do it for $30 to $40 per
>> copy.  The big ticket is making the plates and installing them on the
>> press.  Once that's done your costs are basically paper and ink!
>
>
> "making the plates and installing them on the press"
>
> I guess you haven't looked at the print industry for a decade or more?
>

That's about right!  My wife used to publish "fan fiction" in the 
"Startrek" universe.  Later, she did the same using the universe of a 
show called "Beauty and the Beast"  That's probably fifteen to twenty 
years in the past!

This was the low volume end.  She could sell two to four hundred copies.
She would bring the originals to the print shop and order the number of
copies she wanted.

 From about 1999 to 2004 I worked for a printing company Called 
RapidForms that did short run printing.  You wanted 500 business cards? 
  They could do that. You wanted envelopes, and letterhead, they did 
that too.  Checks were a big seller.

They had a cross between a copier and a laser printer that did about a 
hundred pages per minute.  They also had old style printing presses.

The company is gone now.  A company called "Deluxe" bought the parent 
company (NEBS). Deluxe was acquired in turn but I've forgotten who 
bought them.