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Anyone have experience printing a single book, or a very small (<20) print run? Any services lainon can recommend? Or ways of finding people intereseted in the same print run? I often find I want to print some epub/djvu/pdf I've found but I don't know how to go forward with it. Solutions I've found: - I can ask local thesis printers for a spiral bound print, but if it is copyrighted material, I think I might face some issues. - I also have a spiral binder at work, but I don't know how well they'd take me priting a 150 page document. - Combination, print text of document without identifiers at thesis printer, print covers/identifying material at work. Currently I am interested in printing this translation of Stirner. I am UK based, but am interested in any experience.

Print on demand is your solution www.pothi.com

Print It Yourself. Get a monochrome laser printer, refill the toner and you're ready to print at least 2000 pages. The most important step is to actually prepare the ebook so it would look readable when printed. It's important to make sure the page text isn't dark, i.e. font size isn't too small, font style isn't too heavy, glyphs aren't spaced overly tightly, linespacing isn't cramped. Failing to do so will lead to a book that's tiring and unpleasant to read. Having adequate linespacing is absolutely crucial when printing on paper size that's larger than most books have, as the eye will have to stay on the same line for longer lengths of text and still find a way to the start of another line. Typeface needs to be serif as glyphs will have more variability, distinctness and contrast leading to easier reading. Lowercase letters should be about 60-70% size of the uppercase letters, this size woud be optimal for 12 point text. Page margins need to be sized so no fingers holding the page would block any text. Usually this means the top margin should be smallest, left and right margins should be larger, bottom margin should be the largest. I've printed over a thousand pages this way. After multiple tests with different fonts and sizes I've deemed Caslon at 12 points with 14 point linespacing appropriate for me. Attaching an example with Neuromancer.

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>>2051 Have you tried this, does one have to worry about copyrighted materials? Does the quality come out alright? >>2052 Thanks, those seem like handy tips to bare in mind so I don't make them on my first print. What is your binding method? >>2053 >Reminder: it appears likely that all recent commercial color laser printers print some kind of forensic tracking codes, not necessarily using yellow dots. This is true whether or not those codes are visible to the eye and whether or not the printer models are listed here. This also includes the printers that are listed here as not producing yellow dots. Well, soykaf Perhaps this should be moved to >>>/Δ/

>>2059 >What is your binding method? I don't bind them. Most of what I print is given to another person who doesn't object to having loose pages as long as they are numbered. Before that I was thinking of simply threading the top left corner via two holes so the pages would stay in place and not ncessarily require much time to sew together.

try "DP Digital Books", I used it to print some stuff. Dirt cheap, high quality printing but the login page isn't SSL You have to futz around in libreoffice to make a cover that fits the book dimensions but other than that it's pretty straightforward

>>2048 -home laser printer ~£30-50 -ensure it does duplex -print out For physical pages < ~80 not printed sides, which would be ~160 -get plastic binding channels (they look like tape binding in your image, but are solid plastic) -alternative option: staple edge and cover with duct tape = tape binding For 100s of pages, if you have access to a comb binder use that to punch holes, then use it to put on the comb. If you do some clever stuff with 2-up duplex printing (2 pages per side on an A4 sheet) You could cut with a guillotine, then staple sections of 10 pages (20 sides) and hot glue the edge of them all into a cover = perfect binding of an A5 book. >>2052 >different fonts and sizes I've deemed Caslon Try Bembo font IIRC that is the font used by Penguin books.

>>2158 >If you do some clever stuff with 2-up duplex printing (2 pages per side on an A4 sheet) You could cut with a guillotine, then staple sections of 10 pages (20 sides) and hot glue the edge of them all into a cover = perfect binding of an A5 book. I could have described that better.. You print out 4 pages of the book onto 1 sheet of A4 ( 2 pages printed onto each side of the A4 sheet. The printed book pages are rotated so the top of the printed book page is along the longest edge of the A4 sheet). The page numbering is the trickiest part to get right, layout software normally has a setting to do this correctly (book printing layout, or similar).