Open Source Ecology Shuttleworth Foundation, 2 Jun 2012

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From YouTube: On-Demand book publishing equipment

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A

Adam show us tell us about the basic physical book production minimum equipment that we have here: okay,.

B

Well, first of all, you need to start with the book. Formatted PDF right, that's really important, so you need a you need a PDF. That's that's kind of like that. The file of currency for the book production process is that what the PDF and it's going to have inner margins and left and right.

B

So you have your your book, formatted PDF, and then you run it through a printer, and this is a duplex printer, which means it prints on two sides. So you can buy these things used to be like thousands and thousands of dollars back in their day, and you can buy a 10 year old printer now for maybe 100 euros. I think that's what this cost. That is a very good printer. You can still get all the ink and a recycled ink cartridges and everything for them.

B

You can still find all the parts but they're robust, and there also isn't. This is a networked printer, so very sophisticated so and they also have memory and extendable memories, and you need that sometimes because PDS can sometimes be quite heavy. So you need something can that you know handle quite a large print query and if this will print it out duplex, which means it will print out one side suck the page back in and then print out print the other side, and you leave that for production as well.

B

If you're working with a printer that doesn't do duplex printing, it's a nightmare, you have to print everything out, turn it over and print it out again, there's no way of dealing with errors. You're, not sure you know if things are printed properly, it's horrible yeah, a good duplex printer also has error correction here at management. I should say so that if something gets stuck, it remembers what was stuck and it prints it again. It sits there really great, then what you need to do. Is you take I when we do this?

B

We format books, two books on on a single a4 like this right. So this is a standard print page, and you get the same page here in the same page here, so you get two books, two, a five books side-by-side in a stack of a4 pages, so.

A

You take it over to the cutter.

B

And the cutter is a guillotine, and this is an electric guillotine and it just slices through this you, then you need to knock it. You get the spine flat, you put it into the this. Is a cold blue binder.

B

It works with binding strips you put it into the machine. You wait for it to heat up. You put it into the machine folds around the spine like this and keeps it tight, and then it glues it on the edge yeah.

A

B

Is a bad example that we just lost with cheese, but this is example. So it's a binding strip, it's double-sided! So you then peel this off and you put the cover around it and then you put it in again and it reminds it and then and then you put it through the cutter again and and trim it. And so you end up with a book just like a real book.

A

Yeah, that's pretty nice, it's clean on a very clean yep and how much are these devices here so the.

B

Desert, it's been like: it's been a hundred bucks on this one hundred euros.

B

The Cathar I spent 750 euros so was.

A

Brand new or at 60 seconds so this.

B

Is all about 4000 euros all up for a Prius, essentially mm-hmm.

A

B

You can get more sophisticated, like also haven't got, but I would like to get a good secondhand, color inkjet printer, and you can also do.

A

B

Well, actually, it doesn't need to be because you just need it for printing the cover, so you get really nice printing from you know see. This is really kind of the setup that that print on demand services use well.

A

They use laser printers.

B

For their content and they use ancient printers for the covers and kind of similar binding process. But.

A

You can order.

B

This at home or in your office, for you, know like a.

A

B

Inkjet printer, what they will print a three which is twice the size of a four standard printer paper, I think it's like three or four hundred euros where.

A

The printing costs, including ink and glue strips.

B

Well, these old machines very efficient, so I think each book comes out at under a year and they will scale look.

A

Up about what 200 pages.

B

There is acting.

A

B

You can get a cheaper if you book, if you buy in bulk of course, there's always something it's right away, because here are mr. prints or you screw up the binding but yeah and your.

A

Production rate is here yeah.

B

I mean the bottleneck is the printer. So if you had multiple printers, you really be spitting things out quite quick, so we produced about one every 15 to 25 minutes something like this, but you know we could really get it much faster if we had. If we had three of these duplex printers side-by-side would just be ripping through the stuff. What's.

A

The so, if you had assumed you had all the printing that you needed. How long does it take you to go through the steps of cutting and.

B

Dry for a little bit, but to find it it takes like I think 30 seconds. Maybe it wants you down with the process takes about a minute and you need to do it twice so yeah I mean 10 minutes to go once you have it printed to go through. Everything is way more than enough. If he had like people were really in a workflow I, don't know, maybe one every okay.

A

Yeah, thank you.