12 Nov
2010
12 Nov
'10
9:04 p.m.
Hi William,
On 13.11.2010 04:47, William Donzelli wrote:
Are you really sure? That could be great.
I could *try* (any flexo printing specialists around?) to print a broad roll of paper with
arrows
and something like "directional PDP tape".
Then get the roll to a company that folds it for me - can't be too expensive. In the
end I'd cut the
folded paper into 1" pieces.
I assume that processing a 400kg (or more?) roll of paper could help many people...
Probably. Their price for blank cards isn't very high. But I don't know what they
ask for
"personalized" cards. I just assume that you have to spend several hundred
dollars.
If I find the right or nearly right cardboard stuff, I'll do a calculation. I
won't take my labour
into account as it's all a hobby. I have to get paid the press. And the paper, of
course... And a
device for rounding the corners. All in all seems to sum up to approx EUR 3000.
Kind regards,
Philipp
--
http://www.hachti.de
There seems to
be one major problem with the usual fanfolding systems: They
perforate! If you perforate the paper web it's easy. That's done for
computer paper and forms.
Perforations are optional on paper folding machines. Some will not
even do the perforation function, so another machine needs to be
called into duty. The most
interesting question is if there is reasonable need/interest for
nicely printed punch cards througout the vintage computing/computer museum
community. I'd want to run them through a letterpress. I'd need to do a run
of at least 150000 cards. That's about the minimum amount of paper to buy
for a reasonable price.
Do you think you could do it cheaper than Cardmation? For a few
hundred dollars, a collector or museum could get more cards than they
will probably ever use.