My kids' Sandra Cisneros pastiches were so good that I wanted to make copies of them, bound them, and give them to the class as gifts. I brought them all to Kinko's today, and had one of the greatest sticker shocks of my life.
To make 24 copies of our class pastiches, it would cost me... $511.
Uh, no. Even eliminating the binding of them only got the price tag down to $236.
They'll have to make due with my school copier copies and clamps. Sorry, kids, they're awesome and all, but...
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What kind of a binding are we talking, here? I can do a spiral cone bind for $2.50 each, which is $60 for 24 of them. They won't get to your kids on time, though. :( Drop me an email at freyaskitten AT yahoo if you want to do it anyway and I'll send you pics of what I'm talking about.
I was expecting to pay about $60 for it all.
This was for the cheapest type of binding, with a wide plastic binding. It also including copying everything.
Oh well. I'm just going to run them off myself.
I'm sure we're talking the same kind of binding, since I've had texts for class done at Kinko's before. I work in a university library and we do spiral cone binding for anyone who comes up to the desk -- and obviously we're far cheaper than Kinko's. Check Towson's library and maybe the other schools nearby to see if they also offer such a service.
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