[glug-t] Re: (no subject)
- From: Manik <me10143@xxxxxxxx>
- To: glug_t@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 11:23:00 +0530
Quoting Murugapandian <pandian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi,
> Regarding the printing, if you could give me the specification (like no. of
> pages, dimension, color/bw etc), i can give you a detailed information. And
> if you are going for colour, i can design the wrapper for free; free here
> means FREE as such :D. And be frank, if we are really running sort of money,
The book has a nice cover ! One more thing is there are no colors
involved.
(ofcourse other than black and white)..,
>
> i can takup the wholething and complete it for you. I can help lug this way.
> but the printing you have to take care. I may not have time to come for the
> printers end.
Ok, I dont think any of us know much about the printing books. So
you can
help us in making a good deal.
> And for minimum no. of book polymer is sufficient, and it is cheap too. it
> can print upto 500 copies. Manik! screen is not adviceble books for two
> reasons.
> 1. screen requires lot of man hours. so is time comsuming.
> 2. pictures will *not* come good. And the preparation of picture in the
> screen is a headache.
Agreed, But what is the solution. Do we use polymers and what about the
quality of the book.
> the thing is that you have to catch a good printer.. not the thuvakkudi
> printers, where our physics dept will go frequently
What do you mean by printers ? The huge ones that print books ?
If that is the case then, we have located good printers in sivakasi but
if you can get some printers close by it would be better.
'cos the deal in sivakasi is not even near completion. and there
is not
much time.
manik
> > There is a lot more stuff going on about the books, There are a variety of
> ways to print the books.., and i think if we can spend some time on it we can
> really get it done.
> > The fixed cost as quoted depends on the type of pics and the number of
> pics in the book.
> > If we can make a screen for Rs.4500, then any number of books can be
> printed, ie.. the frame can be reused any no of times.., But there is a
> polymer method that costs less and only a limited no of copies,.. say 100.
> and it costs very less. I dont have any idea about the quality of the
> print..
> > I think we can afford to sell it at Rs.75 if we are going on with the
> calculations given by vijay(4500+1500) .
> > And there is not much time to decide, so please give in your suggestions.
> 'saha'?
> >
> >
> > Quoting Vijay Kumar <ec10052@xxxxxxxx>:
> >
> >
> >
> >> According to my calculations. If we were to sell each book at Rs. 50 we
> will
> >>
> >> have to sell 205 books, to recover all the money.
> >>
> >> These is how I calculated.
> >> Fixed Cost = 2500 + 4000
> >> Variable cost per book = 8 + 10
> >> Total cost = 2500 + 4000 + 8x + 10x where x is the number of books that we
> sell.
> >>
> >> My suggestion is we will go ahead print 100 books first. After we exhaust
> it
> >> we will print 100 more. Send in your suggestions.
> >>
> >> - Vijay
> >>
Its more certainly GNU.
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