Re: amend that...

[harvard!topaz!jerpc.PE.UUCP]

> typesetting policies have been changed.  I'll use the laserprinter
> to typeset (it's VERY highquality) at 17 cents a page, then xerox the
> stuff at 1/2 to 1 cent a page.  it won't be CHEEP cheap, but not too bad.
> 
> Val

I have a suggestion, viz., if your circulation gets large
enough, it would probably be cost-effective to have it printed
by one of these small offset-printing places.  That is
apparently what they do with this Yes "fanzine" I subscribe to. 
It's also what we do here at PE; up to a certain number of
copies (the number is small, something like 20-30) it costs less
to Xerox, but for anything above that, we send it off to one of
these printers.  (Well, actually we usually send it up to the
main office, who has its own print shop, but it's the same
thing).

You can tell things printed at these printers as distinct from
Xerox by the fact that Xerox machines deposit a thin layer of
powdered plastic which then gets melted onto the paper, leaving
a slightly raised texture to the print, whereas the printing
places apparently use ink, which soaks into the paper.  (I don't
know how the process works... I wish I did.)

(PS - trivia - nifty trick... try dusting some of that xerox
powder onto an old (to-be-discarded) credit card's magnetic
strip... or some (digital) magnetic tape... etc...  This works
with the powder from the Canon cartridges, at least, since
inside the cartridge is an enormous magnet which picks up the
powder into a film to be deposited onto the paper... I guess it
probably works with other brands.)