When these materials are approved, your job is sent back to the vendor for printing, binding, drilling of holes, die cuts, and other specialty work requested. The job is then delivered according to your instructions on the Publication Request Form. Authors are given 5 copies each. The for-sale price of a publication is based on the actual printing costs plus university overhead. We can closely estimate the cost when your publication is in page proof stage and paper, ink, etc., have been selected.
Estimates made before the page proof stage are rough estimates only.
A publication should only be purchased if it is valuable to Ohio residents and no similar publication from within the organization exists. Marketing It is the responsibility of authors to market their publications. The cost of printing can be offset by the bulletin price if we produce the leaflet at the same time as the bulletin. Authors are responsible for distributing the promotional leaflets. Each job is scheduled individually, based on our workload and priorities.