One section gives a listing of the costs of producing it

www.flickr.com/photos/ari/4170080893/

20,000 copies were printed (I imagine they could have sold more).

Total printing cost per a unit was .57 (the info pamphlet cost 6.5 cents, the magazine .78, 120 page broadsheet .95, Book review (basically another magazine) 82 cents, Chris Ware poster 28 cents, sports poster 7.5 cents.

"Note: unit costs drop dramatically with increases in volume."

They had around ,00 in ad revenue with one part-time person selling ads for five months. McSweeney’s had never had ads before. There were 48 advertisers, 20 local to the bay area

Editorial costs were a little over ,000

Unit costs with editorial costs factored in .98

So they were losing money selling it for on the day of publication in San Francisco.

This goes into more detail on the budget

www.flickr.com/photos/ari/4170841382/

A typical issue of McSweeney’s has ,500 in illustration expenses. The Panorama has ,000 (not including comics).

Most issues of McSweeney’s contributor budgets aren’t more than ,000. The Panorama was closer to ,000.

In a paragraph called Some rough math:

They produced the paper with 5,000 in direct capital which they recouped a large portion of the day it went on sale (today).

They outline a way someone could produce a daily paper and sell it for "you would be able to make a go of it. That is, of course, provided that your overhead remains low, and that you aren’t owned by multinational that expects return on investment of over 12 percent of so. But within a rational expectation of profit, one can still make a newspaper work. Right?"

Me: Actually most newspaper were making over 20 percent profit and those multinational companies pushed them to cut expenses long before the internet and the recession, so they could make even more money.

If they instead had invested those immense profits into doing better journalism instead of continuing to cut, the newspaper industry might be in better shape to survive this time of transition.

A section called Some numbers (it includes more numbers than I list below)

www.flickr.com/photos/ari/4170081083/

350,000 words (approx)

218 contributors

Over 1,500 copies to local bookstores

bayarea.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/09/the-birth-of-panoram…

The Bay Bridge investigation is online

sfpublicpress.org/news/special-reports/bay-bridge

Background

blog.spot.us/2009/12/08/case-study-in-collaboration-spot-…

www.mcsweeneys.net/SFPanoramaPR.html

These places may have it

mcsweeneys.net/buypanorama.html

It can also be ordered online (though act now – only 20,000 were printed)

store.mcsweeneys.net/index.cfm/fuseaction/catalog.detail/… (you can also subscribe here and choose it to be your first issue)

www.sfgate.com/panorama/

Some coverage

www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/11/24/MNP1…

www.kqed.org/epArchive/R912081000

www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/index.jsp?JSESSIONID=Prg…

www.mediabistro.com/baynewser/bay_area_newspapers/five_qu…

bayarea.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/07/dave-eggers-and-the-…

www.sfbg.com/blogs/politics/2009/12/san_francisco_panoram…

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Part of the growth cycle of businesses and government organisations is the fact that new departments or workgroups are created to address emerging needs. Often these have their own budgets and cost centres. This, historically, means that acquisition of copiers and print devices is often made without reference to any centralised focus, resulting in a loss of efficiency and profitability.

Managed Print Services (MPS) has, in recent years, become the benchmark concept for print cost control. It involves managing print/copy device fleets (copiers, printers, multifunction devices, and fax machines) in an intelligent, centrally-controlled way.

Naturally, this can be part of an internal re-organisation. But MPS as a term is usually associated with outsourcing the print fleet specification and acquisition to an external supplier. Such a supplier can provide and end-to-end management function to include a Print Audit for the entire organisation. It can also specify equipment type and numbers, supply hardware, networking and software systems, plus associated support and ongoing management of faults, consumables and upgrades.

Managed Print Services – the stages toward implementation

a. SWOT Analysis: A complete “Strengths and Weaknesses” profiling of all current devices and their uses in different departments and workgroups. During this phase of MPS implementation, the watchword is to establish and document a complete control of the existing device fleet, by analysing use of currently owned assets

b. Optimisation: At this point, the implementation is focused upon optimising the existing printer / copier fleet. Devices can be re-deployed and better used throughout the organization – possibly without the need to get rid of equipment or purchase any new equipment

However, there would usually be a very strong argument emerging from the SWOT analysis, for the rationalisation of the printer estate and the standardisation of the print platform to a single vendor. Not least, this would ensure that truly universal print drivers can be deployed across the organisation, immediately giving savings in terms of IT resources.

3) Development of Processes: Once the hardware, functionality and networking of systems is complete, then business processes to improve efficiency, save costs and minimise environmental impact are all part of any MPS initiative.

This might include, for example, the implementation of “sleep” mode at night, introduction of mono vs. colour defaults (colour only when necessary, or under password supervision) and ensuring everyday print is black and white and double sided, hopefully moving the fleet from a single sided environment, to a mainly duplex one.

In addition, the introduction of a single cost per page pricing structure (regardless of print type) facilitates the monitoring of costs across the whole print network, easily charged out across various sites or departments.

Managed Print Services – Suppliers

Managed Print Services providers have in the past tended to be hardware-centric and focussed on particular equipment manufacturers such as Canon, Hewlett-Packard or Xerox. However the most successful providers have moved more and more to the service-led element, specifying infrastructure first and then defining the hardware solutions from particular manufacturers to support the specification.

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Operating at high efficiency in order to increase the bottom line is always a priority for businesses and not-for-profit organizations. Now companies can partner with LaserNetworks (www.lasernetworks.com) to implement a Cost Per Page program that can significantly impact their bottom line.

The impact of hidden printing costs to corporations is driven home by an industry study conducted by InfoTrends, which states that corporations spend an average of six percent of their gross revenue on their overall document management. Most companies, however, think they only spend around three percent of gross revenues, but when hardware, supplies and people costs are considered, the average is around six percent and growing. To reduce these costs, organizations need to consider alternative print solution options.

Research has shown that an estimated 50 per cent of the overall printer cost can be tied to support, and of that, 20 per cent can be directly attributed to service calls to a company’s IT helpdesk, according to Principal Analyst Louella Fernades of Quocirca.

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depends on what you are doing and how much you do yourself. I have several free web pages

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Let’s say that I’m going to print post cards 4-up on a sheet. So one side will have pretty heavy ink cover (like photos) and the other side of the page will just have some text printed on it along with the name and address.

To get to a “per-page-cost” I believe I’ll need to know how many prints I can get from each of the four color “crayons” that the Phaser uses given my typical color printed page described above.

Once I have that page yield for the color supplies I will then be able to compute some sort of “cost-per-page” for comparison to other color printing methods available in the marketplace.

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Last Overall Average I saw on the Phaser was 11 cents per page, but that was not for a predominately Photo print page use

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I have seen web pages, reviews etc. that do compare actual printing cost per page, but can’t seem to find one right now – now that I”m buying a new printer and really need one.

Do you have any suggestions? Have any web pages or other information sources helped you? Thanks…

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Kodak makes some awesome printers. They are around 100 bucks at walmart, but the ink only costs like 10 bucks to replace. Now take a HP or Lexmark printer which might cost 60 bucks and the replacement inks cost around 30-40. Do the math and go buy yourself a Kodak printer and thank me later.

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