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[upintheattic]

My (limited) understanding of laser-cut countersheets is that you need far less cashflow to get them done. Granted, your margins are smaller, but it opens the door to much leaner operations which can only be a good thing for this rinky-dink industry.

That was the advice we got from a highly respected game distributor at the first con I went to with AP: Go for print on demand as much as possible to limit costs only to what is needed. Unfortunately, that took the form of the Printernator, which turned into a sinkhole for cash since it sat idle or underused far too much of the time and thus didn't justify the huge rental tab each month. Having it drove the production of all those ten-scenario zippies rather than glossy books or boxed games, and that was a mistake because distributors don't order zippies. Had easy on-demand laser-cut counters been available at that time, I think we would have put out a lot more glossy books at the very least, and few to no zippies or downloads.