{"id":564,"date":"2014-03-22T14:52:24","date_gmt":"2014-03-22T14:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.vwlowen.co.uk\/?p=564"},"modified":"2014-03-22T15:17:17","modified_gmt":"2014-03-22T15:17:17","slug":"printed-manuals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/?p=564","title":{"rendered":"Printed Manuals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Getting a proper printed manual with new electronic equipment is very rare these days. Except for the usual &#8220;Quick Start&#8221; guide, if you want to know anything more advanced, you need to copy the manual from the supplied CD &#8211; or even have to download it from the manufacturer&#8217;s website &#8211; and view it on your PC or laptop or tablet.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s probably fine for equipment that&#8217;s rooted to the spot, such as a TV or audio system but for portable gear, it&#8217;s not really an option if you want to carry the manual with you.<\/p>\n<p>Printing the manual out becomes an increasing non-starter the more pages the manual has. And, certainly when using an inkjet printer, it becomes less and less cost effective; especially when you consider all the things that can (and will) go wrong during the printing process. Even more so if you&#8217;re printing one side at a time on A4 paper trying to make a double-sided A5 book!<\/p>\n<p>For times when you really want a printed manual, I&#8217;ve found a company that does a very quick and professional job for about the same price as it would cost to buy a similar book with the same number of pages.<\/p>\n<p>Well worth a look: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.print-my-pdf.com\/index.php\">Print My Pdf.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.vwlowen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/manual.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.vwlowen.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/manual-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"manual\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/manual-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/manual.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting a proper printed manual with new electronic equipment is very rare these days. Except for the usual &#8220;Quick Start&#8221; guide, if you want to know anything more advanced, you need to copy the manual from the supplied CD &#8211; or even have to download it from the manufacturer&#8217;s website &#8211; and view it on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-electronics","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":571,"href":"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions\/571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}