In comp.periphs.printers, John Forkosh <
for...@panix.com> wrote:
> Eli the Bearded <*@
eli.users.panix.com> wrote:
>> The specific thing Pattern Printing Company had and I'd love to find
>> again, but I don't get from general large format print services is
>> folding. Turn around time was longer, so reprographic services were good
>> for rush orders, but folded output is a major convience.
>
> Wow! ~200 in a day! Nancy Zieman had better watch her back!!!
Her book came out in April. Not nearly Nancy Zieman level yet, but
slowly growing. That 200 was a day with four wholesale orders, the
largest with 80 patterns. Most weeks are not that busy.
> Anyway, can't suggest anything directly answering your question.
> But maybe this is a workable alternative: I've used poster.c
Ah yes. That's a well known "fix" in the pattern industry, but not
a good one for paper pattern sales. There are basically three ways
patterns are sold:
1. Traditional folded paper. (This is what I seek help with.)
2. Downloadable print at home, which uses poster tiling. Several of
the patterns are available that way through Creative Bug, a video
teaching site formerly owned by the same company as Crunchyroll
(known for streaming anime videos) but is now owned by Jo-Ann's
Fabric. This style requires a little bit of technical support
because it is important that the pages are printed at the right
scale. It's also a good idea to arrange the tiling to not have
busy parts of the pattern on a page edge.
3. Downloadable "copyshop" versions. These are full size patterns
that need to be printed on wide format printers, eg, at a copyshop.
There's a lot of noise in search results for searching for pattern
printing about places seeking to get the copyshop business. Small
run printing of plotter style output shipped in a cardboard tube.
We are trying to avoid this because of the risk of someone buying
once and running off a bunch of copies. The envisioned scenario,
and there's reason to believe it is a real risk, is some sewing
instructor printing unpaid-for copies for use in sewing classes.
Eventually we anticipate all the patterns will be available directly
from her shop in downloadable print at home format, but that requires
revisions to all the instruction booklets, too. All of that takes time,
which is harder to come by if you're spending all day folding a roll of
patterns from a reprographics order.
Elijah
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the patterns for the book were printed overseas with long lead times