Printed Manuals - lovely!

EddyDeegan · Post by **EddyDeegan** » Tue Jun 26, 2012 3:51 pm

http://imgur.com/a/aew5n

Turned up today; lovely glossy paper and professionally bound. Most happy!

jeebustrain · Post by **jeebustrain** » Tue Jun 26, 2012 3:55 pm

did you have that printed yourself?

EddyDeegan · Post by **EddyDeegan** » Tue Jun 26, 2012 4:06 pm

Yeah, I sent the PDFs off to a print shop last week. The parameter guide had to be divided into two halves, but the results are absolutely amazing - and full colour too. The quality is as good as any book you might buy in a normal bookshop and the glued spine works very well for such thick manuals.

I would totally recommend anyone to get their own copies printed. PDFs are great, but the hardcopies complement them perfectly.

Ksynth · Post by **Ksynth** » Tue Jun 26, 2012 4:08 pm

EddyDeegan wrote:http://imgur.com/a/aew5n

Turned up today; lovely glossy paper and professionally bound. Most happy!

And is this a USA company?

Might be helpful to mention the country.

michelkeijzers · Post by **michelkeijzers** » Tue Jun 26, 2012 4:09 pm

I admit it looks very good and of course to see such a document 'lives' more than a PDF.

However, last week I have thrown away my M50 printed out parameter guide. I almost looked never into it and a PDF is far more convenient for searching.

On the other hand, the Korg manuals are of very high quality so printing them out is the least they should deserve, on the other hand, it will not be the last version probably so in some months/years there might be a (slightly) updated manual.

SeedyLee · Post by **SeedyLee** » Tue Jun 26, 2012 4:10 pm

Very nice - may I ask how much it cost?

I've been wanting to get the manuals printed for a while now, but haven't been able to find anywhere decent to get them printed locally.

BillW · Post by **BillW** » Tue Jun 26, 2012 4:12 pm

michelkeijzers wrote:I admit it looks very good and of course to see such a document 'lives' more than a PDF.

However, last week I have thrown away my M50 printed out parameter guide. I almost looked never into it and a PDF is far more convenient for searching.

On the other hand, the Korg manuals are of very high quality so printing them out is the least they should deserve, on the other hand, it will not be the last version probably so in some months/years there might be a (slightly) updated manual.

Not to mention that PDFs are usually updated when things change with the OS and features. I was glad when keyboard manufacturers stopped wasting resources on printed manuals.

SeedyLee · Post by **SeedyLee** » Tue Jun 26, 2012 4:14 pm

But it's just not the same, lying in bed reading the manual on a laptop. thumbing through randomly to see what you can learn.

Lou · Post by **Lou** » Tue Jun 26, 2012 5:35 pm

SeedyLee wrote:But it's just not the same, lying in bed reading the manual on a laptop. thumbing through randomly to see what you can learn.

In the past I have always wanted a hard copy of the manuals. But looking at the pictures of the original poster, I can't imagine lying in bed with a telephone book. Browsing through the manuals on an iPad or any tablet for that matter is much more convenient.
I'm sure the trees wouldn't argue

EddyDeegan · Post by **EddyDeegan** » Tue Jun 26, 2012 6:43 pm

The company was a UK company. I'm not sure which one! I work for an IT company and we sometimes get PDF manuals printed for the software we support. I was lucky, I was able to get these done at no cost to myself as we had a fairly large batch to do and my company were happy to add these to the run at no charge to me. What I do know is that we use an 'eco-friendly' printshop who use recycled paper (not that you'd ever be able to tell from the product).

I think getting them done separately would cost in the region of £150ukp - I did look at some printing services in the past and decided the cost wasn't worth it. Having said that, I probably would pay it now that I've seen the results.

Having them lying around to pick up and browse is brilliant. I have an iPad with the manuals on already but there is something about hardcopy that just 'does it' for me - I've always been a bit of a bookworm

Another nice thing is the ability to jot notes down in pencil. Most of my reference books have little notes in pencil scattered around within them with handy links to related page numbers as well as reminders to myself to capture 'eureka, I get it' supplementary notes etc.

Cpilot · Post by **Cpilot** » Tue Jun 26, 2012 6:45 pm

I got fed up with printing the manuals. Cost me 100 bucks a time so I got a 10 inch tablet. As Lou says, more convenient than a large book, easy to read and no more printing.

Bryan

jeebustrain · Post by **jeebustrain** » Tue Jun 26, 2012 6:54 pm

Cpilot wrote:I got fed up with printing the manuals. Cost me 100 bucks a time so I got a 10 inch tablet. As Lou says, more convenient than a large book, easy to read and no more printing.

Bryan

Plus, no need to reprint whenever they update the manuals for the new OS versions.

krslae · Post by **krslae** » Tue Jun 26, 2012 9:56 pm

This one printed on paper is smooth. You don’t have Ctrl+F / Cmd+F though

Spacenorman · Post by **Spacenorman** » Wed Jun 27, 2012 2:57 pm

The printed manuals look nice - but they're always "in the other room" when I find I need them. That said - I keep an electronic copy of all manuals, data lists, etc. - on my iPad. (I also use the iPad to organize my charts - so it's always with me).

Not having complete paper documentation isn't an issue for me. On rare occasions - I'll print a page or two of section that I'm working with on a specific issues. Just printing it so I have a hard copy ? Never.

McHale · Post by **McHale** » Thu Jun 28, 2012 2:45 am

I bought a cheap tablet as well just for manuals. It allows me to box up (or throw away) all the instruction manuals I've kept over the years and have them all VERY convenient.

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