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-1] POD station: [[http://metamute.org|Mute]] have some smaller printers who act more informally around London and have good relations with them, Simon from Mute has also been working with RIT Rochester Institute of Technology, who have made a system or are developing it, that can go straight from the web into a book form or newspaper and is for making instant newspapers and books.+//Publication// 
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 +Book made from selected prompts, edit-software source code, selected text chunks 
 + 
 +with accompanying CD made from Launch Performances 
 + 
 + 
 +//Preformatted//  
 + 
 + 
 +**Cover** 
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 + {{:exquisite_code:morph2_small.jpg|}} 
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 +on plain white gloss cover 
 + 
 +spine: exquisite_code [junicode font? http://sourceforge.net/projects/junicode/files/  http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Junicode_yellow.svg/1000px-Junicode_yellow.svg.png 
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 +[btw. delicious roman used on flyer] 
 + 
 +back cover: brief description 
 + 
 +inside back cover: cd of live recordings from event Launch party 
 + 
 +1] POD station: [[http://www.openmute.org/|Mute]] have some smaller printers who act more informally around London and have good relations with them, Simon from Mute has also been working with RIT Rochester Institute of Technology, who have made a system or are developing it, that can go straight from the web into a book form or newspaper and is for making instant newspapers and books.
  
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 and say this would be a really good system to use for a collaborative writing and instant POD production. and say this would be a really good system to use for a collaborative writing and instant POD production.
  
-2] Line printer [jk can get [[http://imgs.segundamano.es/images/476/47664004516.jpg|Manesmann-Tally MT81]] dot-matrix printer with serial and parallel interfaces, new  +POD with Mute as designed/proofed fro print process = 3 weeks 
-ribbon and box of fanfold printer]+ 
 +Set up costs £165-200 
 + 
 +Book costs approx £1.80 ea. 
 + 
 +**UPDATE DEC. 09** 
 + 
 +after meeting w. Simon 17.12.09 
 +simon@metamute.org 
 + 
 +//General limitations:// 
 + 
 +**i]** portrait [landscape many more problems] 
 + 
 +**ii]** size smaller better. eg. 152 x229 [called Royal or Octava] 
 + 
 +**iii]** paper type - standard bookwove 80gms 
 + 
 +simpler if no images 
 + 
 +cover [+ image if req.], contents/preface end papers all best predesigned if 24hr turnaround required. 
 + 
 +//options:// 
 + 
 +**a]** simplest - prestyled [eg. code/text/prompt] to dump to standard dtp 
 + 
 +**b]** 'single source production' - 1 set of data not tied to any particular output platform - XSLT = xml transform, which is a pretty wel mapped route but can be time consuming 
 + 
 +Also possibility to do multiple revisions of book over the week [ie. multiple versions outputted] 
 + 
 + 
 +**UPDATE JAN. 10** 
 + 
 +I can suggest two approaches to a quick fix for converting text content 
 +into a POD book, of course there are many ways to do this that I'm not 
 +mentioning here, the ultimate of which is the 'single source publishing' 
 +using XSLT transforms. (see attachment BELOW) 
 + 
 +Adam Hyde of FLOSS manuals sent me a Pyton script that converts a XHTML 
 +document into a Scribus FLOSS DTP document, but ill have to do some 
 +digging around to find this. It was from Ludmilla Media Centre in Ljubljana. 
 + 
 +The Python script still involved the text be outputed from your system 
 +as a XHTML document. So in that can I'd suggest an even simpler route to 
 +making that into a book would be the Page2PUB Firefox plugin from Open 
 +Publishing Lab from RIT. 
 + 
 +This second option of the Page2Pub is a little bit of a hack, crude, 
 +approach, but whats interesting is that it makes an Epub doc as well and 
 +all your system would have to do is generate styled web pages. 
 + 
 +Here is there plugin. 
 + 
 +If the Page2pub option was acceptable I'd think it would be interesting 
 +to explore as again its open source and the RIT people are really 
 +interesting and helpful. 
 + 
 +Quickly convert wiki content to EPUB and 
 +print-ready pdf books with the beta of 
 + 
 +web. opl.rit.edu/project/page2pub 
 + 
 + 
 +{{:exquisite_code:web2pod_planning_design_v0.1.doc|}} 
 + 
 +All best and ill hunt down that python script
  
-3] Laser printer w. collator/binder 
  
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