[Ubuntu Toronto] Ubuntu Posters Available!

[Dave Sullivan]

Indeed, I agree... however, this is just a test run, and someone had
already printed them, so why not support the cause? If they're popular,
then sure, I'll get my hands on the high-res digital copy and print a
bunch off for marketing and/or distribution purposes. These posters were
printed by another Ubuntu user/member of the marketing team who is
putting the profits into other Ubuntu projects and donating the rest to
Ubuntu, so I felt that by purchasing them from him, I was supporting the
cause.

Anyhow... you're right though. If these are popular, I'll look into
local printing. I'm sure I can get them cheaper than $1.50.


On Fri, 2006-11-10 at 01:45 -0500, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> Etienne Goyer wrote:
> > Where have you bought those ?  I remember the thread where this was
> > discussed, but lost the coordinates of the guy who did them.
> >
> > I would take 20 right away !
> >   
> Not to be a stick in the mud, but...
> 
> After this stock is exhausted, perhaps it would be better on an ongoing
> basis to have a good quality digital version on hand for printing as needed.
> 
> Posters are expensive to ship (where did these come from? South Africa?
> The UK?) and difficult to ship safely whether rolled or flat. If it
> costs $1.50 each to recover the cost of shipping, then it's better to
> print them here if we can find local printers that can do it for less
> than that.
> 
> Of course any Staples or Kinkos can do colour copies on the spot, but
> they don't publish prices online. One that I did find was from the
> University of Calgary (http://www.ucalgary.ca/printing/ccprice.html),
> which quotes $1.20 for tabloid size (11*17, or 12*17 which is close to
> A3). Certainly the shops in the GTA can meet or better that. Most will
> print off a digital file; I've done that more than once myself. And also
> consider that the price starts dropping with any quantity, and
> turnaround time can be as fast as "while you wait".
> 
> Certainly there's something to be said for having an "original"; but if
> the purpose is using them for marketing rather than keeping, the goal
> would be to keep costs down in the future. And I can't see how importing
> them would be less expensive than printing them locally, unless the
> quantities are big and done in the developing world.
> 
> - Evan
> 
> 
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Dave Sullivan
dave at dave-sullivan.com
www.dave-sullivan.com
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