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I've been away from the book printing industry for more than 10 years,
so I can't say for sure--but can't help commenting anyway. I suspect
that when books are printed, the printer still uses offset press
technology, not laser or inkjet printers. A book printed with a laser
printer, even a good quality one, will still be inferior in quality to a
book printed using an offset press. And when you get into full-color
offset processes, you're talking about running the paper through the
press multiple times, each time with a different color ink, each time
cleaning the old color off the press, letting it dry, adding a new
color, etc., etc.
When laser printers were still baby technology, I knew many people who
could tell the difference immediately between a page printed on an
offset press, and a page printed with a laser printer. I can't tell you
how many times they crumpled the laser-printed pages and snorted
derisively.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin McLauchlan [SMTP:kmclauchlan -at- chrysalis-its -dot- com]
> Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 11:19 AM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: What's with colo[u]r anyway?
>
(snip)....
> Yet it is still prohibitively expensive to use
> colo[u]r in a manual at less than 50,000 copies.
>
> Why is that?
>
> Yes, I know that most personal color is inkjet.
> Is that the major part of the explanation?
>
>
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