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# Can I ask you some questions about printing?
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Thu 3 Nov 2005, 22:44, archived)
# Of course.
(I helped save b3ta! NobbyNobody 21 years a b3tan, Thu 3 Nov 2005, 22:45, archived)
# Right then
What's the smallest print run your printers let you have, and how much does it cost, and where do you get your cardboard tubes from, and what type of printing is it, and do you give them the original or is it from a digital copy?
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Thu 3 Nov 2005, 22:46, archived)
# he gets his carboard tubes
from me. i make them from snakes.
(I helped save b3ta! connor, Thu 3 Nov 2005, 22:51, archived)
# Is that well paid?
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Thu 3 Nov 2005, 22:53, archived)
# 22 grand job !
(I helped save b3ta! connor, Thu 3 Nov 2005, 22:56, archived)
# I'll do it cheaper.
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Thu 3 Nov 2005, 22:58, archived)
# i dunno
im fairly confident my supply of carboard snakes its one of a kind..
(I helped save b3ta! connor, Thu 3 Nov 2005, 23:00, archived)
# I'll make them out of cardboard tubes.
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Thu 3 Nov 2005, 23:01, archived)
# lol omg
it'll never catch on
(I helped save b3ta! connor, Thu 3 Nov 2005, 23:02, archived)
# Real snakes?
Or cardboard ones?
(I helped save b3ta! mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Thu 3 Nov 2005, 22:55, archived)
# carboard ones
obviously
(I helped save b3ta! connor, Thu 3 Nov 2005, 22:57, archived)
# Ok then
The smallest run is "one width" - that's a two metre wide printer, so one two metre print or eight 25cm wide prints or four half-metre wide prints.. etc..

I'm charged by the length of paper used, regardless of width. Prices are only a little less than what I charge for the finished print. I make bugger all on these.

The tubes come from Viking Direct. fast, cheap and easy. www.viking-direct.co.uk.

It's inkjet printing, and I make a 300dpi digital copy on CD in MAC format which they print from either Quark or Photoshop.
(I helped save b3ta! NobbyNobody 21 years a b3tan, Thu 3 Nov 2005, 22:58, archived)
# Thanks.
I wonder if traditional litho printing would be cheaper and/or work at all.
Seeing as the pictures are kind of monochrome.
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Thu 3 Nov 2005, 23:00, archived)
# For my stuff
I couldn't find anyone who could litho print images 10 to 15 feet long.

For smaller piccies, it might work ot cheaper.
(I helped save b3ta! NobbyNobody 21 years a b3tan, Thu 3 Nov 2005, 23:02, archived)
# "How do you print?"
(I helped save b3ta! IndieSinger watch my Mentos thing - http://tinyurl.com/6au8jl, Thu 3 Nov 2005, 22:47, archived)
# well
1. turn on the computor
2. stick head through moniter
3.
4. profit
(I helped save b3ta! Arsonade is saving up for a new box of hummus, Thu 3 Nov 2005, 22:49, archived)
# Moniter?


(I helped save b3ta! Mstandot I suppose I should post more often., Thu 3 Nov 2005, 22:53, archived)
# lizard
yes
(I helped save b3ta! Arsonade is saving up for a new box of hummus, Thu 3 Nov 2005, 22:54, archived)
# Oh riiiight!*
*not quite convinced
(I helped save b3ta! Mstandot I suppose I should post more often., Thu 3 Nov 2005, 22:59, archived)
# Did you mean Nobby?
(I helped save b3ta! mr horrible up yours, dickface, Thu 3 Nov 2005, 22:45, archived)
# Eh? What?
Yes.
(_Felix 's school of dance and occult sciences, Thu 3 Nov 2005, 22:47, archived)