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That was something I was looking into as the price of glue strips also seems highI have played around with binding PDFs myself and simply don't find it worth doing. The good machines to do it with are too expensive, and the cheap ones are usually not good enough.
So I instead made a private Lulu account and get my PDFs printed by them. If there is no POD option for it on DriveThruRPG that is. Don't know if it's actually legal to do this, but I assume it is.
That was something I was looking into as the price of glue strips also seems high
Yeah I even looked at the offbrand solution and at least at Amazon for the limited number of larger books I'd be printing its like 220 w tax for the machine and $80 for the glue strips to handle 400+ page books. So I'm pretty rapidly getting to a cost per unit that's almost break even. The one plus is I don't have to convince anyone I have the rights to do it. That's nice.These machines tend to have a bit of a razor business model and proprietary supplies. For the numbers one is likely to print it's probably not going to be that expensive in aggregate as long as the covers are decently robust.
From time to time I entertain the option of setting up a basic print ship with a Xerox C7030 (low running costs by colour laser standards) and some sort of binding machine but these days I don't print out enough to justify it and I have nowhere to put it.
You probably won't get away from that with coil binders - paper drills are thousands and the alternative is a punch.So my goal here is mainly speed, compactness and affordability.
I currently have a comb binder which is ok but I'd like something slightly more professional looking (maybe coil) and something where I don't need to punch holes over and over in 10-15 page increments with the attendant chance to screw it up each time (juuuust slightly offset).
If it just was a better alignment setup on my machine it would help. I also just don't get warm fuzziest looking at a shelf of coil bound manuscripts. But it works.You probably won't get away from that with coil binders - paper drills are thousands and the alternative is a punch.
I've thought for a while that gaming stores should be equipped to sell, print, and bind pdfs. There should be some kind of a drivethrurpg franchise so the retailer can get a discount or something. Imagine being able to have everything in stock, in print, and available in 30 minutes always. The current business model is pretty outdated.
The problem at present is that you need discounts on the pdf, the paper, the toner, and the binding supplies for it to be competitive. There's also the issue that the guy who bootlegs the content has a significant advantage until the IP lawyers drag his ass to court. Nobody gets a retail discount on lawyers.