Re: Self-Publishing

[Éditions IN NOMINE]

Hi.

I'd like to give you my testymony as a publisher : if you want to 
publish and sell as a professional, I have to say that printing is a 
REAL job. I mean it takes time, and you won't have a proper score at the 
end without professional printers (machine AND guys). I made this choice 
a year ago : I've  found a printer next to me (a musician !) and I must 
admit I spend a lot of time with him to get the best final product 
before printing the whole stock. With a final cost below Lulu & Co ! (I 
can make as many tests as I want before production, and that saves me 
many times !)

Another thing : try to calculate the time you will spend to print your 
score on the base of N buyers. You'll spend a LOT of time for this and 
it will not be, sadly, of the same quality of a professional printer.

Well, I mean, don't hink that working with a pro will be so much money !

Best regards.
JMarc

Han-Wen Nienhuys a écrit :
> On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Laura Conrad <address@hidden> wrote:
>   
> > > > > > > "Pete" == PMA  <address@hidden> writes:
> > > > > > >               
> >    Pete> The upshot -- well, so far -- is that *if* I buy the printer,
> >    Pete> it will be a refurbished HP LaserJet 5000.  Am sniffing out
> >    Pete> reputable vendors.
> >
> > I would recommend against this.  I did that, after the kind of
> > exploration you did, and if you can pick it up on the third floor in
> > Cambridge, MA, USA, you can have it free.  I don't think the duplexer
> > ever worked more than a month at a time, and currently the fuser is
> > broken as well.  You can buy a duplexing laser printer for less than the
> > cost of a service call for the HP.
> >     
>
> Most printers have a status page that will print the number of pages
> printed.  Look for a printer that has a very low number there, a
> couple of thousand maybe. Many offices have a printer that sits around
> doing nothing all day.  That is the one you want to buy second hand.
>
>