In the past couple weeks I’ve come across a couple different services which will print a tabloid sized from your PDF. Neither option is cheap, but they do represent some fascinating possibilities.

Note that these are not full sized newspapers; they’re about the size and shape of the trashy gossip rags you might see in the supermarket checkout.

The Passive Voice blog pointed me at the first service, which is called Newspaper Club. This is a UK based startup which has been custom printing newspapers for the past 3 years. They can handle a print run for a single copy all the way up to hundreds or thousands of copies. But if you want a print run with more than 300 copies you’ll need to go with the traditional (offset) press, not the digital (nkjet) press.