If your situation allows, you might want to look into some of the online sites that will do this for you. They can have some attractive rates and have tools that let you do the layout online and push a button (after your give them a credit card #). They handle all of the printing, binding, and shipping.
I have been publishing a golf magazine for 24 years. It is a sheetfed job that runs at a commercial printing company. Each year I compare prices for printing it. Most ‘online’ printers run digital short-run jobs, e.g., letterhead, sell sheets, biz cards. They do publications but the economies of scale are such that it is cheaper for me to have that work priced out by brick and mortar printing companies that are located close to the distribution routes I need, e.g., ships that go to Hawaii out of Portland. So, I use a Portland printer. I used to print locally in HI but now the main printing co there shut down. Prices are just so high I can’t affford to print there anymore.
As far as page layout, etc., is concerned: I create the now 84-page magazine in my head. It starts with sales then moves to a bedsheet diagram where I plan out what pages go where, then I shoot the images and write the content th n do the page layouts. There are online sites like upwork, formerly elance, that have freelance designers and I always collaborate with one to add sparkle to my otherwise lackluster skills as a publication designer. Twelve years ago I made enough to employ full time designers in a real office! We had a network of iMacs and I was rich! Now I’m poor, on here, trying to split hairs over a laptop ha ha!
Thanks for the suggestion. I appreciate the help, believe me for every idea we all trade it only takes one good one to have a really positive impact.
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Although I'm a proud 2015 owner, I think it's an absolute gem of a laptop, I have to say it would have to be chirpy chirpy cheap cheap to be a star buy in 2019. The battery is ageing (regardless of charge cycles), the CPU is far behind current chips, and Apple hardware support may not be for long, important if you have the misfortune to need (for example) a keyboard replacement.
Okay. Now I’m hearing what I fear the most, and suspect/ed: the tech is such that is devolves and somwith it are opportunity costs vs diminishing returns as our basic conundrum (apologies to all of you who have painfully analyzed this in other threads).
I suppose buying new tech, with the intent of replacing it every few years, knowing its quality is somewhat dubious, and the ultimate destiny of said unit is the eBay aftermarket, where savvy buyers (and those unsavvy on s, like me, hopefully go on forums like this and learn) can pay market value of said unit, probably less valuable than say an2015, is where we all eventually congregate (or the machines do). I guess we keep hoping for Apple to improve, like I used to hope Bill Gates would, and that means we ar destined for iPads, or our tough luck. The old tech will only work so well, so long.
That all said my OP is still a toughy... I see a unit w AppleCare until 2020 (2015!) it’s got hours left on the auction and is already at $1400! Odds are it’ll fetch $1650.
At that point, you can get a 2018 with more AppleCare left in the tank (2021, for example) and new tech for $500 more. SDColorado has had five replacements, or four, of his 2018. That’s a huge opportunity cost. I’m sure he could weigh in on the financial hit that equated to....
The hassle is more than mailing in a machine for a week, loss of use, etc.
Maybe Uber cheap backup unit and new, to hedge when new breaks. Hmmm.
