Comic Party, 21st Century Style

April 21st, 2009 omo Posted in Experimental | No Comments »

Every once a blue moon I find a good article that interest me and that I didn’t find on my own via the Japanator tip line. This one is so good that it’s worth sharing before it even gets written up :3

This is a way that you can print about 16 pages, with color front, back cover, inside covers and rest B&W for about $200 for roughly 175 copies. If you’ve ever done small-run prints, you’d know this is a p. good deal. In some respects, the generalized advice is that for the right job you need to find the right kind of printer service. In this instance some small-press management type was looking for someone to run a doujinshi print run for an anime con. These numbers, hopefully, make obvious sense to you before I even mention the d word.

The print service is one of those online places that mail it to you, www.docucopies.com. The stiupation here is that you can’t have bleeds (standard for doujinshi), and the printing is done through a photocopier (as in, basically, printed in a relatively low fidality method). Make sure you test it out if you can before you submit your order (go to a Kinkos or something). No bleed just means having a .125 inch border of white space around the edges. You could have more if you’d like.

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