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Message: <blockquote data-quote="yangnome" data-source="post: 1310418" data-attributes="member: 7413">My friend has one of these in his garage.  He bought it about a year ago, possibly form the guy who invented it.  He runs a small publishing company, mainly for family and friends.  From what I understand, it isn't that expensive to make books with the machine, I think it costs less than a dollar a book.  I approached him about making gaming stuff, either stuff I had written, or PDFs I had bought.  The only problem with that is that the machine isn't set up to print a book the typical gaming module size.  It has a page cutter right after the printer that cuts a normal 8*11 page in half, so a book comes out set at 8*5.5, good for a paperback, but you would need to reset any current gaming PDFs you would want to do.He did say he could probably pick up the paper and disconnect the cutter to make a normal module sized book, but that would also likely require additional tools for binding ( don't think the binding tool is large enough to do an 8*11 book.)Overall teh quality of the books isn't bad, but it isn't fantastic either (I'd say it comes out looking a little less professional than something you would buy in teh bookstore).  Getting the covers positioned correctly is a trick, but with the cheap cost of production, its easy to fix with trial and error.  If you got the right tools to do gaming stuff though, that might not be an issue as you could use staples to do the binding rather than the glue.It's been awhile since I've talked to my friend about it, but I could ask and make sure my facts are right on costs and abilities of the machine.The nice thing about the machine is that it makes for a really easy print on demand service.  One could sell PDFs on a site and print up books only when ordered, cutting down further on overhead.The mahine is also fairly portable, which would make it easy to take along to a con or something in case you ran out of books.  Of course, you'd need electrical outlets for the printer and compressor and such.</blockquote>

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