[ILUG-Cochin.org] Printing facility on Free Software

[Bijoy V]

Yes, this is true, many people, offers this sort of printing and publishing
services are not highly technical. They go by the documentation and brochure
given by the printer/equipment manufacturer, and usually these manufacturing
companies issue warnings on the usages or illegal softwares. Many cases they
issue recommended software packages. I think we must communicate these sort
hardware manufacturers to include the free/open source software to there
recommended list as most of them support and encouraging the free and open
source community.

Thanks,
-Bijoy

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 1:28 AM, Sameer Mohamed Thahir <
sameer.thahir at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> One problem faced by many people, is the lack of professional quality
> printing facilities available
> which function entirely or partially on free software. It becomes difficult
> and sad to see that all
> our publicity has to be done using proprietary software (printing process).
>
> Is anyone aware of any facilities like "Flex printing" or "A3/A2 printing"
> or "Photo quality printing"
> commercial facilities that use free software anywhere in India. Sreenadh
> had inquired at two places in kochi,
> if we could use our laptops running on free software or live cds on their
> PCs to print our posters, but
> they were afraid their "costly" equipment would get damaged.
>
> One reason is lack of awareness, the second would be the lack of demand, so
> atleast if some of us
> strategically plan a programme to send in random inquiries for printing in
> free software the popular
> printing shops would understand the importance.
>
> Btw this has been one major bottleneck for the preparations for our stall
> at NFM 2008.
>
> Thank You
>
> Regards
> Sameer Mohamed Thahir
>
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