Printing in high quanties?

[funkychunkymonkey]

I need a place that will print around 2,000 or so black and white copies cheap. I am working on our family tree and my family wants copies of the notes I took. Any advice?

 

[ancestry]

Digital publishing. Put them online and let each person print their own copy.

PS. I'm a professional genealogist. It is what I do for a living. .

 

[VroomVroomLightning]

I need a place that will print around 2,000 or so black and white copies cheap. I am working on our family tree and my family wants copies of the notes I took. Any advice?

It might be cheaper to somehow scan them onto your computer or anyone's for that and put them on a flash drive (Granted this is more time consuming, but less cost probably to you) and then e-mail them to everyone and they can print at their own leisure if they even want to.

 

[VroomVroomLightning]

Digital publishing. Put them online and let each person print their own copy.

PS. I'm a professional genealogist. It is what I do for a living. .

We must of been posting at the same time!

 

[Cindy B]

You can scan and post them via online through Google Docs, or a file sharing site. If I recall, you can password protect it so others can't view it.

 

[Swimalie]

The average print shop will charge you 10 cents per page and can do it fast. You can sometimes find a coupon for a place like FedEx Office for 5 cents a page on standard (bright) white. I'm a graphic artist so I have worked with a lot of print shops over the years.

 

[mrodgers]

Have to say, due to the current season, I read that and wondered, "what kind of freaky person takes notes on how they put up their Christmas tree?"

 

[Swan4Me]

Most geneology is online-its not supersecret info-do it that way

 

[funkychunkymonkey]

i wanted to burn it all on cds, and let everyone make there own choice of what to do with it but yea, mom dont like that idea.

 

[Swan4Me]

Why not put it all on a blog?

Just give family the name of it?

 

[plummer925]

I would buy a big bunch of cds or dvds and save it to them and tell your family members they can send you a SASE, or better yet, Merry Christmas - here is your family Christmas present!

 

[mikechan]

laser printers have become so affordable, you can get one for $50-80 easily. You can get toner cartridges that last 2500 pages for about $20. so that works out to less than 1c per page. You can get paper for very cheap too, if you look for deals on slickdeals etc. you can get a case of paper for $10 or often free!

We've switched completely to laser printers in our household and everybody prints without worrying about running out of ink or costing a lot of money. This is really the way to go. Inkjet printers are so not worth it now, except maybe to print the occasional color printout.

 

[prncess674]

i wanted to burn it all on cds, and let everyone make there own choice of what to do with it but yea, mom dont like that idea.

Well then make mom a hard copy and give the rest digital. I know I would much prefer it in digital rather than had copy. Not sure if you work in a professional office setting, but all our copiers at work have a multi sheet feed scanner. I can scan about 100 pages in less than 5 minutes.

 

[tink_n_pooh]

We do black/white prints and copies for 5¢ each at my office, we are an office equipment dealer and do this one the side.

I agree with the idea of making the information available online, it's much less expensive and probably easier for most people anyway. Why not just print a copy for your mom since she seems to be the one that wants it printed and make it available online to everyone else?