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Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 08:40:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: Carol Tobin <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: GIS pay for print question <fwd>
Sender: Carol Tobin <[log in to unmask]>



At UNC-Chapel Hill we went back on forth on how to charge for the
plotter. What we decided was to charge $7.00 for all maps up to  five feet
in length. For each foot over the base five -foot map we charge $1.75
extra. This extra charge for each additional foot will not be levied for
margins but aplied ony when the actual map lines or printing goes over the
five-foot lenght. There are are not charges for the width ( 36'" is the
max) or color intensity or density.  The reason we have set the basic
price at 5 feet is because most of the census maps will be in the
neighborhood of 4 ft, a sort of standard size.

We have not had this in place for too long. We basically are trying to
recover costs and not make money.  The only problems we have had are from
people wanting to print posters, etc. We are short staffed right now so we
are only doing maps. ( we had been open to doing more before) We found
that once one person found we could do "pictures" the word
spread. Evidently we were much cheaper than kinko's or other places on
campus for this non mapping use of a plotter.

The plotter is in our main library reference where we have our GIS
services not the Map library.




Carol M. Tobin
Head, Davis Library Reference
CB#3912, Davis Library
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
919-962-1151, fax 919-962-5537
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