If I wanted to start a news paper

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What type of printer would I need?
  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    A big printer?
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  • Profile picture of the author salegurus
    If you are talking about traditional News paper, why?
    Print is a dying media, most are losing money or are closing/closed...
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    • Profile picture of the author Merlina
      Originally Posted by salegurus View Post

      If you are talking about traditional News paper, why?
      Print is a dying media, most are losing money or are closing/closed...
      This would be a free news paper with paid advertisements. I wanted a way to reach people without internet access.
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  • Profile picture of the author zaidi1814
    How to have your own column in your own news paper?
    I would like to have my own column or at least my relationoship advice column in the local news paper. I also want to start a dating coaching service. I'm tired of my self of getting hurt and rejected. It's time that women start rejecting men instead of the other way around.
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  • Profile picture of the author Merlina
    I'm actually more interested in writing about economics, finance and scams that are happening in out society today.
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  • Profile picture of the author travlinguy
    Print it on legal sized paper in two column landscape format. Then you can fold it down the middle and easily add pages if you need to. I wouldn't go hog wild with any kind of print medium until I knew I had a market for it. Good luck.
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    • Profile picture of the author Merlina
      Thanks, well it looks like I'll still need to shop for a printer. Preferable a laserjet so that I don't need to worry about refilling expensive ink cartridges.

      Originally Posted by travlinguy View Post

      Print it on legal sized paper in two column landscape format. Then you can fold it down the middle and easily add pages if you need to. I wouldn't go hog wild with any kind of print medium until I knew I had a market for it. Good luck.
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      • Profile picture of the author travlinguy
        Originally Posted by Merlina View Post

        Thanks, well it looks like I'll still need to shop for a printer. Preferable a laserjet so that I don't need to worry about refilling expensive ink cartridges.
        I used to write a print newsletter in the 90s. There's a special paper size for it. I'd get it all formatted and either print separate sheets of put it on disc and bring it to Kinkos. I only printed about 25 copies a month. You might consider trying that.
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        • Profile picture of the author Merlina
          Originally Posted by travlinguy View Post

          I used to write a print newsletter in the 90s. There's a special paper size for it. I'd get it all formatted and either print separate sheets of put it on disc and bring it to Kinkos. I only printed about 25 copies a month. You might consider trying that.
          I'm really hoping for a larger audience than that. In addition I'm also planning to allow people to purchase advertisement in exchange for Federal reserve notes or pre-1964 junk silver coins of the same value.
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  • Profile picture of the author HeySal
    Well, you can buy a press with all the equip like an AB Dick - that should only be a very sweet 5 figures all by itself.

    OR -- you can put your letter up online and format it - then give the doc to a printing company and have however many copies you want printed. For a 4 pg paper, front and back on newsprint quality, folded with no stitching, and cut - probably not too expensive per paper. 50 cents tops - if you can sell the paper for a buck, you have profit on the finished product. You might not have enough to do the real journalistic investigation you will need to support a paper though. Just getting stories on line somewhere to print as "news" isn't going to get you a following that will pay for that paper. You will have to do the research and get scoops, not depend on other people's to float you. .

    You might want to talk to the people at Breitbart and find out what their research costs them.
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  • Profile picture of the author seasoned
    Originally Posted by Merlina View Post

    What type of printer would I need?
    Ink jet printers are OUT! Too problematic, etc... Laser printers would be ok, but I figure a 50 page document could end up costing $1! GRANTED, if you used recycled cartridges, etc... And they were HIGH YIELD, and you got full use, it would cost about $.11. And those prices don't count paper! The paper would likely cost upwards of $.25 extra.(50 sheets 8.5*11 at about $2.50 a ream) And this would likely take about 2 minutes per issue!

    There IS a reason why this hasn't caught on. Have you ever seen a REAL laser printer? I have! They are HUGE, and FAST!!!!!!! But they cost a FORTUNE!

    What people call laser printers today came out around 1980 and are based on a NON COHERENT "LASER" diode that a company named Canon got to produce decent output. It was years before they presented really laser like quality. I think most do over 20 pages a minute now. Using the internal copy feature they often can go faster.

    LASER printers came out earlier, around 1976. The first one, by IBM, printed at a speed of 20,000 lines per minute. To put that in perspective, at the then standard of 66 lines per page, that is over 303 pages a minute. The sound is deafening. NOT because of the laser, but the paper running through the machine. And they are expensive, but a bank wanting a custom highly personalized statement is faced with a near impossible task that such printers are literally made for.

    I'm with the others here though, try to save a few trees!

    Steve
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  • Profile picture of the author GT
    I agree about jet printers: forget it for your intended use!

    A number of years ago I produced and distributed a home business publication that started out on newsprint paper and in a standard newspaper format. I then went to an 8.5"x11" magazine format (still on newsprint paper).

    I created all of the page templates and took them to our local newspaper and had them print my publication with their presses.

    That's one way to do it. But are you talking about a newsprint publication or are you talking about those "Coffee news" kind of ad sheets we see all over the place in coffee shops, restaurants and stores?

    If you are talking about an ad sheet like that, then you can create the templates on your computer, then take them to a print shop to produce the number of copies you require.

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  • Profile picture of the author RyanEagle
    I think it depends on how much content you'll have and exactly how many you plan to print out. If it's just a small thing for a handful of people in your town, I can't imagine it'd be too tough to make a decent little ghetto newspaper with a simple home printer and something like legal size paper.

    Where do you plan to pass them out, anyway?
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