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Article #20Re: seeking scanning services
From: Stan Brown
Date: Sat, 07 Sep 1996 00:00
Date: Sat, 07 Sep 1996 00:00
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What Steve says makes sense. I was told when I called the U.C. outlet that the only option was having Kinko's people do it; I assume that means they don't have the design stations there, or didn't when I called. I found a cheaper (though less convenient) alternative elsewhere; but next time I'll try a different outlet. In article <50qfks$a8s@nerd.apk.net>, sjsobol@nstc.com (Steve Sobol) wrote: >stbrown@nacs.net (Stan Brown) wrote: > >>In article <50nlgu$cl5@antares.en.com>, rjs@en.com (Rich S) wrote: >>>Kinko's does do scanning. They will do it for you or you can use their >>>equipment (40 cents a minute or $24 per hour if you do it yourself). > >>Either different outlets have different policies or the policy has >>changed recently. > >>At University Circle in May when I called they said it was a full-service >>item only, $7.95 per scan or slightly less for multiple scans. > >Well, all the Northern Ohio-area Kinko's are owned by the same >franchise, so it's not policy differences. What the difference is is >that Rich got a quote on using the local Kinko's "design stations" >which have lots of fancy equipment and extra software, and are about >twice the cost of their normal self-serve Macintoshes; the $7.95 is >for a Kinko's DTP worker to scan it, but there is a twenty-four hour >turnaround on the full-service scans. Actually, eight bucks would give >you twenty self-serve minutes, which should be more than enough time >for most people to scan one picture, so in general unless you're real >slow, using the self-serve design station is cheaper. -- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Cleveland, Ohio USA email: stbrown@nacs.net Web: http://www.nacs.net/~stbrown/ Can't find FAQ lists? See my Web page for instructions, or email me.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10ff56,9ffe4dc2a5e857e0 X-Google-Attributes: gid10ff56,public X-Google-Thread: 108bc6,9ffe4dc2a5e857e0 X-Google-Attributes: gid108bc6,public From: stbrown@nacs.net (Stan Brown) Subject: Re: seeking scanning services Date: 1996/09/07 Message-ID: <MPG.c9bea5ae4cb50c1989921@news.nacs.net> X-Deja-AN: 179177764 references: <3211d7f5.6119084@nerd.apk.net> <50nlgu$cl5@antares.en.com> <MPG.c9a2f921d9156de989913@news.nacs.net> <50qfks$a8s@nerd.apk.net> organization: Oak Road Systems reply-to: stbrown@nacs.net newsgroups: cle.misc,cle.general