I am a financially literate adult and capable of determining if something is way more expensive than just buying a book, thanks. Your cold hard truth is decidedly lukewarm and flaccid.
X to doubt on that since you aren't valuing your time collating/binding them.
But you have been informed the stove is hot; take the rated page capacity of whatever you're buying to hold your product together and multiply by .75 to .5 to get the actual rating of anything you want to last more than a couple sessions, and good luck have fun.
Lol, as I understand it, the reason for the laxity is that we're a pretty big place on one of those professional printer contracts, so they replace the ink and toner every so often and while we need these printers, we don't have the print volume to use all the ink and toner. If I print 500 pages a day and we run out early, this permission would obviously be revoked. Just need to use it judiciously.
Yeah that's not the case. Laser printer toner, unless environmentally compromised (read: wet) is recyclable/reclaimable. (actually even wet toner is reclaimable as part of the processing is a bake-and-grind, but its usually not done) The toner tubes on commercially serviced printers will report empty at about 10-20% (so there is sufficient toner to print; you don't want your toner to go 'farting ketchup bottle' on you and fuck up a print job), and the company will just send them back to the manufacturer who will just open them up, send the toner back into the "grinder", then clean and refill the tube. Even if the company is just having a guy come through on a regular basis to change the tubes, that isn't wasted toner and if run down repeatedly would affect your contract rate.
Its more likely you're big enough they just don't care about infrequent personal use, like most companies I've worked for, and an extra $100/month or w/e in personal print jobs is well worth the employee morale as a "perk".
Repeated 200-page print jobs may change that policy. I would advise you clear the scale of your print jobs with whoever gave you the green light, but you do you.
I printed out some purchased PDFs mainly as backups to prevent wear on my print copies and it was notably thicker and heavier than the original book.
tl;dr is that commerical printers are able to print on better paper with better ink than you can at home because of how ink is transferred - they don't just print but the in a very real sense "bake" the ink onto the paper with heat and pressure, which allows them to use treated paper that is both thinner and more durable than what you buy at the office supply store to run through your inkjet.
Inkjets rely on exposed fibers to soak up ink but it does so, when you go real close, in an inconsistent manner. Its like the difference between drawing with chalk on a blackboard and drawing on the sidewalk.
Laser jets rely on paper to hold a static charge and then dump and fuse toner, but laser toner is essentially "glued" to the paper not soaked in so it can wear off.
The other issue is that since inkjets require exposed fibers to absorb ink, and Laserprinters don't give a fuck as long as it can melt toner to it, the common denominator is exposed-fiber laser jet paper. This means those exposed wood fibers will soak up everything: liquids, human oils, and small little particulates you don't even realize are there.
The best printers you'll find for home use are the "photo printers" that take the expensive ass photo paper, and even then the longevity is often not great.
Printshops don't use the giant ass multi-ton print units because they think they look nice.
Somebody at your work does NOT understand printer economics.
Yeah our contract, BYO paper, was something like 8 to 10 cents per page for color? It might have been 25 cents, but i think that was what we billed back to departments and I think included paper.
Anyway, even a 200-page job would be $20-50 which is going to be a rounding error on a the average printer contract.
But if he got permission, the PPC isn't his problem. I think maybe telling the person who gave him the go-ahead he's planning multiple 100+ page print jobs would be wise but he says he is a financially literate adult so I would assume did that already.
