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1] POD station: 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.
http://drupal.org/project/innovationnewsprofile
He's actively working with the system and looking how you can do booksprints or fast productions. and say this would be a really good system to use for a collaborative writing and instant POD production.
POD with Mute as designed/proofed fro print process = 3 weeks
Set up costs £165-200
Book costs approx £1.80 ea.
2] Line printer [jk can get Manesmann-Tally MT81 dot-matrix printer with serial and parallel interfaces, new ribbon and box of fanfold printer]
3] Laser printer w. collator/binder
4] see http://en.flossmanuals.net/booksprints
5] Proboscis' .pdf-based bookleteer publish-on-demand web-app service http://bookleteer.com/ for e-book-to-print using their Diffusion service http://diffusion.org.uk/?page_id=147
