New Catechism from the USCCB?

[Thursday1]

Not so. With no licensing or advertising fees, no income tax and shipped by the pallet, a Bible or a copy of the CCC would cost about a buck a copy (or less) FOB any Catholic parish in the USA – whether it was printed by a monastery that needed an “industry” to keep going or whether it was jobbed-out to a contract printer. There are already plenty of Catholic industries (Rosaries, hosts, etc.) This is nothing new. If EWTN can be created, this could be.

I see you have been banned, but this is for anyone else who thinks that you can print a bible for $1.00 per copy.
The only way to print the hundreds of thousands of copies of the bible cheaply would be on a web fed lithographic press. But, the issue with this, and even sheet fed lithographic presses, is that the bindery work (i.e. cutting, collating, binding ect.) would be would be extremely expensive. Getting the proper pagination for a book this size requires either expensive and specialized equipment, or hoards of illegal immigrants (no, I’m not joking, this is what some binderies do.) Add to all this the number of forms you would need, and the rising costs of Aluminum, paper, and ink. I think it might still be a money loser if you charged $10.00 to $20.00 per copy.
I can see one way that you might be able to make in the $10.00 to $20.00 range, but it requires several web fed Heidelberg 90110s running 24 hours a day weeks on end. Even then, you would need service contracts on each machine for break downs, and just for supplies alone. running 24 hours a day, one 90110 can consume about 3 toner bottles. Toner for it is $175.00 a bottle without a service contract. If you had 4 90110s (which IMO is the minimum you could do the job with) you would be talking $15,000.00 a week in just toner.
No, there is no way to make a bible for $1.00, and not be hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt after one month.

Yours in Christ,
Thursday
Digital Printing Expert
Prepress Mac Operator

 

[Jaypeeto3]

I gotta tell you, as an ex-Jehovah’s Witness,
that our JW “Bible” was available for many many
years at $1.00 per copy, hardback, postpaid.

I have no idea how they accomplished that, because
most JW’s are from the lower middle class and don’t have
scads of money to donate to the Watchtower Society.

And our 192-page hardback “Bible Study” books were
available for 25 cents, postpaid, for many, many years.

Again, I have no idea how the WT Society managed to do that
but they did do it.

And I’m sure that if the Bishops of the Church wanted to do something similar (though prices today would be of course significantly higher), they would be able to do so.
Where there’s a will, there’s a way, or so I’ve always heard.

God bless,
Jaypeeto3 (aka Jaypeeto4)