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Hikarunu
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Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2016 5:37 pm
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Damn, Japan got good stuff again. The 7-11 at my place will never have this thing.
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Fenrin
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Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2016 6:12 pm
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Man Japanese convenience stores are so cool *___*
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Mr. Oshawott
Joined: 12 Mar 2012
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Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2016 6:18 pm
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I wish the 7-Elevens of the U.S. had copy machines... It would be a wonderful sight seeing doujinshi being printed by many folks visiting the convenience store for both a quick bite and a fan-made postcard.
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fencer_x
Joined: 28 Jul 2011
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Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2016 6:43 pm
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"Before Comiket on Friday"
This article was posted almost 24 hours after Comiket started...
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Cecilthedarkknight_234
Joined: 02 Apr 2011
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Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2016 6:55 pm
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as sonic would say:
Huh, Neat!
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XerneasYveltal
Joined: 09 Jun 2015
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Location: Philippines
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Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2016 9:24 pm
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7-Eleven is not a convenience store for nothing.
If only 7-Elevens in the Philippines also had those copy machines. . . . .
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Juno016
Joined: 09 Jan 2012
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Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2016 11:26 pm
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I paid out the butt to have my doujinshi paginated, so it'd be nice to have a convenient option. Something tells me it's not going to be THAT much cheaper, and it might be worth still going to a print shop if you're selling at a big convention, since you can expect a ton of artists to congregate at the convenience stores if their machines are that much cheaper or greater. When printing my doujinshi, I went the easy route and just made a 16-page work with a triple staple bind. Since I didn't have any page spreads, it was perfectly fine as it was. I wonder what options are given on this machine. If I was still in Japan, I'd probably try it out.
Can I say, though... People have been printing doujinshi at convenience stores for decades, and the only major setback was the manual labor that went into putting everything together, which often had to be done by hand, but was the cheapest option by far and very popular simply because it is convenient. IT'S ABOUT FRIGGING TIME THIS HAPPENED!! =P
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Fenrin
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Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2016 11:56 pm
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Juno016 wrote: | Can I say, though... People have been printing doujinshi at convenience stores for decades, and the only major setback was the manual labor that went into putting everything together, which often had to be done by hand, but was the cheapest option by far and very popular simply because it is convenient. IT'S ABOUT FRIGGING TIME THIS HAPPENED!! =P |
Where? What country? I've never heard of printers at convenience stores.
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enurtsol
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Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2016 6:30 am
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Watch the machine break and everyone tries to fix it
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S0N G3CK0
Joined: 29 Apr 2016
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Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2016 8:52 am
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Now I can print Dōjinshi when ever I want
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Touma
Joined: 29 Aug 2007
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Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2016 9:11 am
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Fenrin wrote: | Where? What country? I've never heard of printers at convenience stores. |
This printing is being done on copy machines, not actual printers.
I guess that most doujinshi is still drawn on paper, and anybody who does it on a computer has a printer to make a paper copy. These copiers are used for mass production, relatively speaking.
I seldom use convenience stores so I do not know if it is as common for them to have copiers here in the US as it is in Japan.
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leafy sea dragon
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Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2016 10:46 am
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Juno016 wrote: | I paid out the butt to have my doujinshi paginated, so it'd be nice to have a convenient option. Something tells me it's not going to be THAT much cheaper, and it might be worth still going to a print shop if you're selling at a big convention, since you can expect a ton of artists to congregate at the convenience stores if their machines are that much cheaper or greater. |
Yeah, that was one of the concerns that came to mind. Assuming each 7-Eleven will only have one copy machine, and they are for the purpose of mass-producing doujinshi, or at least producing enough copies to sell, that means each person has to be at the machine for a while.
I've worked in office environments with less than 10 people where lines develop for the copy machine. This could create big problems if planned poorly. Well, unless 7-Elevens areas ubiquitous in Japan as they are here.
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Touma
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Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2016 11:04 am
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I have never been to Japan but everything that I have read and seen indicates that the problems that you talk about have already existed for years with the copy machines that are currently in convenience stores. All that the new machines will do is make it easier for people to produce a finished book that is ready for sale.
I really do not see any negative aspect to this.
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Polycell
Joined: 16 Jan 2012
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Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2016 2:40 pm
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Touma wrote: | I seldom use convenience stores so I do not know if it is as common for them to have copiers here in the US as it is in Japan. |
No convenience store I've seen has had one. Just the usual aisle of car products, soda fountain, coolers and grocery and candy aisles. A couple nearby have restaurants in them, but that's the biggest shakeup I've seen in anything that wasn't a truck stop.
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Kadmos1
Joined: 08 May 2014
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Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2016 6:45 am
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If they did have this in our 7-11 stores, I wonder how the already situational fair use defense would apply to this. If I was to make a Mickey Mouse picture then Disney's lawyers threatened to sue me, my rebuttal would be that your this company's empire was built on derivative works.
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