Well, as you said, a lot depends on the cost of your ink cartridges. Are the 15 cent pages laser printed? If so, they are usually water-proof... a big plus in a cookbook. I'm not familiar with your Canon printer, but if it is regular inkjet, that usually is NOT waterproof ink. Also, inkjet printing fades faster than laser. Does the 15 cent cost include paper? Is it high quality paper such that you can print on both sides? That may be a factor in your binding cost, too. Have you checked at local Kinko-type places for quotes? They do binding, too. If you are going to all that work to make the cookbook, you will want to put a durable, sturdy cover on it with a binding that lets the book lie flat when open. (Just ask the cooks in your family!)

I'm covering my face, Nebgranny! I'm so sorry that I didn't answer your e-mail about the candy wrappers! I was busy at the time and put it off till later. And, of course, I forgot about it till I saw your post. I can't help you with Print Shop.

it may be the cd you are trying to copy, I know the walmart photo cd's that I have had in the past were not always copyable they contain special coding or something that can make it hard if not impossible to copy sometimes. but with most photo cd's you just put the cd in the cd drawer and it will pop up a box asking what you want to do, you want to copy to disc, or you can just drag and drop the pics from the disc to a folder on your pc. Right click on the picture itself and you should have some options like save as or copy to you can use those also to tell it where to put the picture. this is the type of situation I have run into with the walmart cd, this is a quote from a website. "WalMart Photo and also Kodak photo processing--available at nearly any supermarket, drug store, etc.--offer to put your photos on a CD along with developed prints. But, included with the CD images of your photos is proprietary photo/album management software. The photo/albun software seems to be pushed on the consumer to make it his primary photo management software program. These programs include a (re)ORDER PRINTS and/or ENLARGEMENTS function. The objective is to cause the consumer to keep using only THAT photo processing source and photo management program on his PC! Either the Walmart or the Kodak software MUST be loaded to even view the photos on the respective CD or to copy the images to your PC's hard drive. Without loading the proprietary software, you cannot view, edit or copy your photos! " I refuse to load any extra software on my pc if I can not do it with the programs I have then too bad. I will not risk putting spyware on my pc.

I have copied just a few black and white photos on a good color copier at the stationary store.For about $1.00 plus you can get an 81/2 by 11 inch piece of paper run off and depending if you want it to be the consistency of a photo(shiny) it is a little more. Sometimes I think the color copies of photos that I have run off are better than the originals. I also cheat and have color copies of my scrapbook pages run off so that the grandparents canhave their own scrapbook pages. There is a little difference in colors sometimes but for the most part for $1.58, I could not get reprints, more stickers, paper, and my time to equal that. REspond backif you need more info.