Picture book....

[Jason Fenner]

Speaking of paper...is there a way that we could make sure that the book was
printed on as much recycled paper as possible?

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2009/1/17 Keiran Smith <affix at fedoraproject.org>

> I would also go paperback it seems to be conciderally more affordable.
> However it seems to have a bad habbit of falling appart.
>
> 2009/1/16 Ian Weller <ianweller at gmail.com>
>
>> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:47:20PM -0800, Doug Berry wrote:
>> > Hey Community,
>> >
>> > Sorry I did not get back sooner. My friend at
>> > LSI called my cell phone -- I was waiting for
>> > an email. Did not check my messages until today.
>> >
>> > The gist of what she said is that we can indeed
>> > do a hard cover full color book, but we would
>> > have to do so using off-set printing.
>> >
>> > And she could not give a cost estimate, because
>> > the cost would depend on how much color and the
>> > degree of difficulty for the printer in setting
>> > up the book.
>> >
>> > Off-set would probably create a much better
>> > looking book, as far as image quality goes.
>> > It is the industry standard for printing high
>> > quality books.
>> >
>> > But using off-set, each color page would
>> > require that four separate plates would have
>> > to be made to produce a color image. Blue, red,
>> > yellow, and black is the way they used to describe
>> > it, but now it is CMYK (short for cyan, magenta,
>> > yellow, and key (black)  We could, however, use
>> > a mixture of b&w and color pages. Then we would pay
>> > less for the b&w pages that don't have color on them.
>> >
>> > Still, since we are not driven to make a
>> > huge profit off of each book, we could adjust
>> > the book price to allow for the additional
>> > printing costs.
>> >
>> With the current state of the economy and everything I want to make
>> these books as affordable as possible to the consumers.
>>
>> I think paperback with color pages is the way to go. But we can vote or
>> whatever on that later.
>>
>> More importantly, we need to decide the requirements for photos in the
>> book. Nicu, can you help us out on that?
>>
>> Also I'm getting prepared on how tos on uploading photos to the wiki,
>> release forms, etc. Once that's ready to roll, we'll have a process
>> worked out for contributing your photos and stories to the book.
>>
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