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Any Recommendations For Where To Print My Online Philately Journals?

 
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Posted 09/07/2020   6:51 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add dgwhite87 to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
I get a lot of PDF's or stamp club news letters sent to me electronically. Call me old fashioned, but I'd like to be able to hold physical copies of all of these.

Do any of you use any online printing services? If so, what do you recommend? Ideally, I'd like to get some of them bound into booklets.

I can do a google search and find lots of different services, but thought I'd check here first to see if anyone else has done something similiar.

Thanks,
Dan
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Posted 09/07/2020   7:09 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Anthraquinone to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
I would just buy a laser printer and do it yourself. B&W are not expensive to buy or run colour lasers cost considerably more but both are bound to be less expensive than printing services. I am not even sure if you could find a service that would print one copy of a file.

Then perhaps there is the copyright issue if your are asking them to print something that is not your original work.

I used to print things and then keep them in a 4 ring binder. However I now prefer on screen reading and editing of pdf files. With modern software adding notes to pdfs is so easy.

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Posted 09/07/2020   9:59 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add shermae to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
There is always Fed-Ex Kinko's but you will need to do the copies on your own.
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I have found that over the years I typically am most interested about certain pages of most journals I receive rather than the entire journal.
If I receive a hard copy of a journal then I typically remove only the pages I want to keep and recycle the rest. After years of receiving a dozen or so journals there was just to much to keep and I had a hard time finding the things I was looking for anyway.
If I receive an online journalI will print only the pages that I wish to keep and/or refer to.
This has ended up saving me time, money, and space.
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Posted 09/08/2020   11:57 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add moneil to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Office Depot, Staples, and FedEx Kinkos (plus you may have local print and copy shop options) will print your newsletters for you, you won't have to do the copy work yourself on their machine. You can take your job in on a thumb drive, e-mail it in, or set the job up on line.

I've used all three of these vendors to produce print newsletters and brochures for organizations. I've always taken the job in as hard copy or on a thumb drive so I don't know how the online set up works. It has been about 4 years since I've done a comparison but all three were competitive though Kinkos seemed to be a penny or two higher per sheet. It seemed like Office Depot was more generous about having discount coupons available than the other two, but that's just my impression. I always tried to have a discount coupon to apply on a big job.

All three vendors can wire or comb bind a print job into a booklet. You might consider just putting the sheets into a 3-ring binder and using tab dividers to separate years. That would be less expensive and give you better flexibility for culling out pages you no longer need to keep while retaining issues or articles of interest. If you don't want to hole punch they can do that at the print shop.

As has been stated, another option is to calculate the cost of printing them at home on a laser printer.
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Posted 09/08/2020   12:14 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add shermae to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

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Office Depot, Staples, and FedEx Kinkos (plus you may have local print and copy shop options) will print your newsletters for you, you won't have to do the copy work yourself on their machine. You can take your job in on a thumb drive, e-mail it in, or set the job up on line.


I have had Kinko's reject materials to copy when they could see it was copyrighted material. In both cases they asked if I was the copyright holder. Worth a try though.
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thank you all for the replies. I don't have kinkos' near me, but the equivalent is "copy works", ill try them.

Ill also take to advice the bit about only printing what is relevant to me; if I do this for all of my online publications this will indeed save space and money.
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