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

[Anivar Aravind]

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).

Design using Gimp/Inkscape and take out as PDF or eps. That will be
supported by most of the printing people

> 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.

I totally agree :-)

> Btw this has been one major bottleneck for the preparations for our stall at
> NFM 2008.

Cya there :-)
>
> Thank You
>
> Regards
> Sameer Mohamed Thahir
>
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