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>The sort of things I'd like to know is:
>How much is the printing of a 2000ad sized periodical likely to cost?
B&W 32 A4 pages is gonna cost you anything between ?500 - ?1000 depending on the quality of the paper etc.
>How many issues is a realistic number for a first issue?
Your average fanzine 100, unless your lucky and get in to 500?s.
>Do you produce the magazine in a computer publishing programme and give this to the printer or do you give them original art work?
Can be both, I did original art and high quality print outs for the text & feature pages.
>I'm sure there are more questions/advice that I can't think of at the minute.
If you can?t afford to lose the money don?t print, photocopy. That way you can produce as many as needed and always produce more. If you print that?s it and you may end up with a pile of mags you cant get rid of.
If you want to print find a local printer or two and go and see them, talk about what you want, paper quality etc and get more than one quote and get them to show you something they?ve done with similar paper and at the sort of settings your mag will be produced at.
Once again, and this is the first thing I say to anyone who wants to print, if you cant afford to write the money off if it doesn?t sell,
?Don?t do it!?La Placa Rifa,
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