Re: HP-42S Manuals
Message #4 Posted by Bill (Smithville, NJ) on 1 Mar 2012, 5:43 p.m.,
in response to message #3 by Matt Agajanian
Matt,
Printing the manual works great on any good quality ink jet printer. A lot of current printers will do both sides, or you can just do odd side and then reload and print even side to get two sided printing. I'm lucky in that I have a 10 year old HP Deskjet 990CSE professional series ink jet printer that's fast and does both sides. It cost me a lot ten years ago, but it still performs as if it was new. I've probally done hundreds of manuals on it.
I usually opt to print on heavier paper, 22 or 24 lb weight, and use a good quality paper designed for high quality ink jet printing.
The nice thing about printing your own manuals is that you can have the page expanded to fit the full size of a letter page. It makes it a lot easier to read, especially for my old eyes.
Staples will punch and spiral bind with clear plastic cover and a black back cover for less that $5. The wire spiral binding is a lot better than the plastic comb binding, since you can fully fold the pages back on themselves.
If you have a bound manual, Staples will also slice the binding off and wire bind it for you for about $2 more. I have taken bound manuals which are smaller than letter size, have Staples slice off the binding, scan the manual, print a copy to letter size and then have Staples wire bind the original and the printed copy. This will give me a larger manual to use on a daily basis.
Anymore, I perfer good quality PDF manuals that I can print myself, to smaller sized printed manuals.
Bill
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