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[Grimlock]

Well, I d/l a buncha faqs off of gamefaqs and wanted to print out a set of hard copies for my own use. The trouble is that the faqs are frickin' huge and could easily total more than a couple of thousand pages of printout. Needless to say, my color printer is not going to handle the job without a bundle of money in ink. Work is NOT an option as our computer usage is very strictly monitored-last week I hit dictionary.com for 3 minutes to look up how to spell a word and the next day our whole unit was warned about unauthorized internet usage. Yeesh. Besides, the sheer amout of printing could not possibly go unnoticed, even if I did break it up into smaller jobs. I tried Kinko's and almost passed out when they told me that B&W printouts were 50 cents PER PAGE. Short of finding a cheap laser printer, does anyone have any ideas?

 

[SKluck]

Um, considering an average laser printer will print a page at about 9 cents for a full page of text... you are going to be spending at LEAST 80 bucks for 1000 pages of full text. That is if you can find someone to do it out of the goodness of their heart, at cost.

That's for a typical home user laser though. Print places have the heavy duty machine which are cheap as fuck. Copymax, the copy center for OfficeMax will do 1000 pages for around 40 bucks. That's as good as you will find anywhere.

http://www.officemax.com/max/solutions/services/CopyMax/CopyMax.jsp
You can send them the document online and pick it up at whatever store you want, they give you a quote beforehand as well.

I advise trying another copy center first though, because I fucking hate my company and don't like giving them business.

 

[neptunes]

work or school is the best source for free print-outs.

Until you get caught!

 

[tedtropy]

Way are you so against just keeping digital copies of the FAQs? I mean, it's less mess to deal with, you can search through the entire FAQ MUCH easier, and the tree-creatures that be will appreciate you all the more for it. But as for a cheap source of printing - a stealth mission at work or college tends to do the trick...

 

[SKluck]

Hey, just buy a tablet PC and load them on there, and you can scroll through them all like a book, but still use scrollbars and ctrl-f. I've always wanted a reason to own one of those.

 

[tedtropy]

Hey, just buy a tablet PC and load them on there, and you can scroll through them all like a book, but still use scrollbars and ctrl-f. I've always wanted a reason to own one of those.

Plus it's all the portable bathroom porn you could ever need!

 

[Matlock]

work or school is the best source for free print-outs.

Until you get caught!

Caught? Haha. Just log in under the visitor account, and be smart about it.

 

[lordmrw]

Print it on a school computer. keep printing until someone starts asking "who the fuck is printing this shit?", at which point you should duck out haul ass out of there. True story.