Printing 4000 pages

[cliffords]

I have a Pdf of 4000 pages . It's a technical manual.
I would like a printed copy ,easier to use in a workshop.
Can anyone suggest a place I can send it and get it printed, I guess ringbound too.
Black and white double sided fine .

I did a bit of googling but the sites I found didn't seem to work for me.

[Doofus]

It would probably be cheaper (and a lot more flexible) to buy a rugged tablet and put it on there.

[morrisk1]

Where are you based? These are in Birmingham and we've always had a good service (not specifically what you're looking for though);
https://www.servicegraphics.co.uk/birmingham

[22]

Bound documents are zero rated for VAT so makes it a sensible approach. I use a local to me printers for random bits and bobs and always found them great value (nothing like 4000 pages mind you!).

https://www.orbitpress.co.uk/

[Halmyre]

cliffords said:

I have a Pdf of 4000 pages . It's a technical manual.
I would like a printed copy ,easier to use in a workshop.
Can anyone suggest a place I can send it and get it printed, I guess ringbound too.
Black and white double sided fine .

I did a bit of googling but the sites I found didn't seem to work for me.

4 *thousand* ? What have you got in your workshop, a Vanguard submarine?

[JoshSm]

Even allowing for printing both sides that's not 'a' manual, it's a set. At a guess about 8" thick just for the paper.

You'll need to break it down into workable chunks.

[21TonyK]

Any print shop near a university will be used to printing and binding stuff in volume.

[Tim Cognito]

I can't believe finding what you are looking for in 4000 physical pages will be in any way easier than being able to use the search function on a pdf.

[Sheepshanks]

21TonyK said:

Any print shop near a university will be used to printing and binding stuff in volume.

That was my thought too - I had a look at a random one online, they had a limit of 500 pcges and it was thirty odd quid, spring bound. Maybe there's some economy of scale possible, but it's still going to be £200+.

[cliffords]

Tim Cognito said:

I can't believe finding what you are looking for in 4000 physical pages will be in any way easier than being able to use the search function on a pdf.

I search the document, as an example, pulley. 350 places. I narrow it down, alternator pulley, no matches because it's referred to as a generator pulley, with 45 places. The whole document is in a series of chapters. I do intend to get a paper copy .

[Mark V GTD]

You can't beat a printed manual. I have the illustrated parts catalogues for the P-51 Mustang fighter and its much easier to find the right page leafing through the printed versions (few hundred pages each).

[Sebring440]

cliffords said:

Can anyone suggest a place I can send it and get it printed, I guess ringbound too.

Any local quick-print shop will do this for you. Prontaprint, KallKwik, any of them.

[shirt]

cliffords said:

Tim Cognito said:

I can't believe finding what you are looking for in 4000 physical pages will be in any way easier than being able to use the search function on a pdf.

I search the document, as an example, pulley. 350 places. I narrow it down, alternator pulley, no matches because it's referred to as a generator pulley, with 45 places. The whole document is in a series of chapters. I do intend to get a paper copy .

formatted correctly, you can search within chapters of a pdf. a full copy of adobe will be cheaper.

i printed a physical copy of a honda manual and it's corresponding HRC manual. approx. 600 pages which i formatted into 4 spiral bound sections.

the most used part got grubby quickly and then a bottle of trans fluid leaked onto the stack of them from a shelf above. i use a searchable pdf now.

[RustyNissanPrairie]

OP - tell me you own a Porsche without telling me you own a Porsche!

The 955 Cayenne manual is 6000pages, the 958 is 10,900 pages!

[cliffords]

RustyNissanPrairie said:

OP - tell me you own a Porsche without telling me you own a Porsche!

The 955 Cayenne manual is 6000pages, the 958 is 10,900 pages!

Not a Porsche it's a Jaguar XK.

[ridds]

4000? pfft

One of the manuals I use that describes the contents of an ECU and its calibration data is 17273 pages....

Using the search function in Acrobat is bad enough. I'd hate to have to do it manually.

I would have thought a cheap large screen tablet may do the job for less than printing and binding 4000 (2000 physical) pages.

A quick google threw up this as a loose sheet price. 1000 pages appears to be the Max with them for any form of binding.

https://doxzoo.com/?utm_term=&utm_content=&amp...