RST Engineering wrote:
Printing costs have been on a steady exponential increase, following
right along with energy costs associated with creating paper from
trees, soybean prices for ink, and all the rest of the process
involved with creating paper manuals.

On the other hand, the price of optical media (DVD and CDROM) is
plummeting. Anybody that has bought any computer electronic device
recently soon discovers that other than the single sheet "quick
start" guide, all the rest of the owner's manual is on CDROM.

I guess the real question is whether a 10-20% bump in the cost of an
aviation electronic product to provide a printed black and white
product manual versus 0% increase for a CDROM that can be done in
full living color is worth it.

(BTW, we can do ALL our manuals on a single CDROM, so you get much
more information on the whole product line than with a single manual.)

Jim

What aviation electronic product has a 10-20% bump in the cost of the
product because they have a manual?