second one, but this time with help from a friend and he managed to print six copies of his zine. To print issue 3 of QQRYQ Pietia used the same personal connections and one of his friends managed to print 50 copies of the zine using office equipment from his working place. Before printing issue 4 of the zine, Pietia found a man who worked in the Student Union’s photocopy service, and on the side he made some extra money by printing private stuff. He charged a regular price and never asked any questions. When finally Pietia managed to print No 4, this time over a hundred copies, he faced another challenge - arranging the pages together into zine and stapling them together - it was quite a job.
“Often it was like this, I took a case of beer and with a couple friends we sat down and for hours put the pages together. Also stapling wasn’t that easy. I couldn’t buy anywhere a stapler with an arm long enough to bind the pages on a spin. Finally after more than a year of searching I bought one in a graphic shop. It has an arm long enough to staple A3 pages in the middle to make an A4 zine. But the quality of the staplers was very poor and we used about 6 or 7 of them for every issue. When in 1988 we were allowed to travel to the western countries and the communist regime gave us passports, on my first trip to West Berlin, my first stop was a graphics shop to buy some good quality staplers; but unfortunately they were to expensive.” (Pietia, 2012).