I also bought a whole pack (250 sheets) for $10 for blank pages to add to the logbook. It was $.24 for each duplex (both sides-just like your paper logbook) sheet. He said if it was an “S” feed or worse (two or more turns inside the printer) it wouldn't work. The Kinko's guy said it would be no problem printing on this thick paper at home as long as I had a flat or a “C” feed (one directional turn) printer. It is about the density and thickness of a business card. I decided on a light green colored paper (kind of like the Jepp logbook, I guess-my paper logbook has white) that was an 80# weight. So, if you're selective, you'll probably want to go to a paper store and buy the paper there and bring it to wherever you want to print it at. I found out that they don't have a very wide selection of paper at all.
I shopped paper at both Office Max and FedEx/Kinko's. So, even though I wanted my logbook done that day, I ended up ordering the binder online, as mentioned above, and didn't get it done in one day. They had never heard of a 7-ring landscape binder (like the commercial check binder). They said they could order them via the internet, but they never had them in stock. Then, I went to the nearest Office Depot. Surprisingly, they didn't have any landscape binders. They told me I wanted a binder that held legal-size paper. The guys there thought I was insane when I explained I was looking for a landscape binder. Several mentioned they are available at Office Depot. Multiple posters mentioned having trouble finding a “landscape” format binder. I bought heavy weight paper, so I think the 3 vs. The seven holes are less stress on the paper. If you want a 7-hole punch binder, one or more guys bought “Commercial check binders”. It is black vinyl, and is $16 without shipping (I don't know the shipping charge). If you have any amount of hours, get the 2” one right away. ***Note: I got the 1” binder, and it is basically too small already. It was about $37 with UPS ground ($11), which is the cheapest way to ship with this company. The binder I liked best (well, really I liked the Cirrus binders through LBPro, but those cost $130:LBPro now advertises one for about $70) was this one:
I don't have a binding machine, and don't want to pay for one. They told me if I had a binding machine it WAS practical to add or subtract pages. The employees at several stores told me the binding WOULD break after a while, because a comb binding is designed to be a permanent binding. If you use a comb binder, you can add pages, but it's difficult. The difficult part is finding a ring binder that is in landscape format, with the holes punched in the short edge of the paper. I recommend, like many of the other posters have, that you use a ring binder, so that it looks nice, and it's easy to add more pages as you get more experience. Since it's landscape, most binders will not work. Think about how a paper logbook looks (if you have one, or if you remember when everyone carried around paper logbooks). One entry will take up a line on two standard sheets of 11”x8.5” paper.
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The LBPro software will format your digital information to be printed basically into a landscape (the page is wider than it is long) format. I didn't want to spend a lot, and it didn't seem that complicated to do it myself. I believe this process could be completed in one or two days. If this process seems to complicated, LBPro will do all the work for you of printing and binding your logbook. I thought I could pick up a binder at Office Depot (or somewhere else), take it to FedExKinko's with my logbook report on my usb drive, have them print it, punch holes, and I'd be all done. Some of the info was helpful, but there was a lot that wasn't, or was bad info for me. I consolidated all the info into one file. I spent several hours searching the web for help with printing/binding my LogBookPro. Note: Some of this info is mine, and some is from various posts, or from the LBPro website.
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