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Date: Wed, 6 May 87 08:06 PDT
From: Wahl.ES@Xerox.COM

First, background--I've cut down on my publishing schedule a lot lately,
but in 1986, here's what I was doing: Two monthly newsletters, about 10
pages each, about 75 copies of one 140 of the other.  One quarterly
publication of only 10 copies, 50-80 pages, two fanzines, each about 50
pages, maybe 100 printed over the year, plus lots of misc. flyers. and such.

Doing the above offset or copy shop would have bankrupted me.  So, I
bought a copier with my Xerox employee discount.  1) The cost, counting
paper, toner and electricity, is about a penny and 1/2 per two-sided
page.  Adding in the cost of the copier, over just these two years,
still comes out to only 7 cents a copy! 2) I did not get a service
contract with Xerox--the cost seemed prohibitive, but I have not had any
breakdowns in two years. 3) I do have a problem with my little copier
(1025 Marathon copier) with large print runs.  After about 500 copies,
the contrast goes down and it tends to wrinkle two-sided copies.  So,
I'll do my two newsletters over a week.  4) I do have to collate, but
with an electric stapler and some friends to help, that's not bad.  I
did get a sorter, but that does only 10 copies--very useful for the
larger publications, though. 5) You won't believe all the things a
copier comes in handy for once you get one.  I just had an immensely
successful garage sale, mainly because I did up cute flyers on the Mac,
copied up huge quantities, and got friends to help me distrubute them
throughout my neighborhood.

I've figured that it would be reasonable for me to look into copy shops
or offset if I go over 300 copies for my newsletters, but not until.

Yes, I work for Xerox.  But I wouldn't tell you about how marvelous my
copier was, if it weren't.

--Lisa

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