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xg4bx... you do realise how long ago that video was made... funnily enough I haven't noticed the machines being shoved in every bookshop in the country. In fact Blackwell went very quiet about the viability of the process and I've never forgotten the review the Times did on the first book coming off the machine... and sliding into a pile of separate pages - no glue. Never mind the speed (around 3 mins/book for that particular video), the print quality left something to be desired... and you can't change it to suit yourself... and at 3 mins/book (and I think that's generous as I seem to recall it was really around 10-20 mins depending on content and size) that gives 20/hour or 200 for a 10 hour working day... need to be a very small outlet to survive on that and that's without stoppages for cleaning, refilling consumables (toners, glue etc) and the odd jam. The age of that video and the non-ubiquity of the machines (the manufacturer may have discontinued them or gone out of business) rather gives away the success of that particular setup...
Currently it's a nice idea but the machines, that really work for PoD, are massive and designed for use by professional printing houses and other specialists with the odd warehouse available to house the equipment.
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