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Author Topic: Manuals for free, Thanks Paul Cunningham Expert Film Handler Posts: 146 From: Melbourne, Australia Registered: Jun 2000 posted 12-17-2000 07:56 AM                     I would just like to say thanks to Brad and his various sources for posting the free manuals. I have just seen some joker trying to flog "A quality reprint from a film library loaded in a rugged hard binder." ie a copy, on ebay for $20 bucks with a further $6.50 for shipping. Why would you bother when you can get a 'quality reprint' from your own printer in seconds. I have downloaded several manuals now and would just like to express my appreciation. Paul  |  IP: Logged Jerry Chase Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1068 From: Margate, FL, USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 12-17-2000 08:48 AM                       I'll second that appreciation, with an aside comment that $20 doesn't allow that ebay seller much real profit, given today's printers. The cost of ink jet and laser printing is more than most people realize, unless they refill their carts and use their printers for many years. Average costs can be ten cents per page or more. FWIW, and even more off topic, one of the great secrets of dot matrix printers is the low cost of output. A dot banger may not give nice looking output like a ink jet, but the cost is minimal in comparison. Anyway, yeah Brad, thanks for keeping the info available to us, and allowing some of us to clean out shelf space devoted to tattered manuals we didn't dare toss out.  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-17-2000 10:40 AM                     Yes, I use the manuals section pretty regularly. My company supplies me with 90% of the manuals I need on CD but once in a while I run into something that I don't have the manual for. Every so often, somebody asks me to come to their garage and look at an "old" projector or something. It's good to have a manual to "crib" from before you go there. That way people think I actually think I know what I'm talking about!  |  IP: Logged

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