February 6th, 2012
Posted in Book Binding Options, Book Printing, Digital Printing, Hardcover Book Printing | 6 Comments »
A printer I work with sent me a case bound, digital on-demand book printing sample his company had produced. I am impressed. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Book Binding Options, Book Printing, Digital Printing, Hardcover Book Printing | 6 Comments »
February 2nd, 2012
Posted in Brochure Printing, Offset Printing, Printing | 2 Comments »
Designing a brochure that really grabs a reader is a challenge. Here are a few design ideas to jump-start your creative process. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Brochure Printing, Offset Printing, Printing | 2 Comments »
January 31st, 2012
Posted in Prepress, Printing, Proofing | Comments Off on Printing Case Study: Proofing Cycles for Critical Color Images
The following case study may give you insight into options for proofing offset custom printing jobs, whether they be digests, books, catalogs, magazines, or any other signature work. For that matter, I think even smaller jobs like fold-over cards, brochures, and such, might benefit from this proofing workflow. Read the rest of this entry »
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January 29th, 2012
Posted in Digital Printing, InDesign Software, Prepress, Printing | 2 Comments »
I recently designed a print book of poems for a local writer, and a print book of flower photographs for a local photographer. In an attempt to solicit more design work from another potential client, I considered emailing the prospective client PDF samples of the two books I had just completed. After all, I considered this akin to showing a digital portfolio, just as I used to open my physical portfolio and display printed copies of my design work. Fortunately, I paused before acting. I then sent emails to both the poet and the photographer asking permission to share their work. Read the rest of this entry »
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January 23rd, 2012
Posted in Book Printing, Digital Printing, Printing, Soft Cover Book Printing | 2 Comments »
First of all, I misspoke.
A PIE Blog reader just brought to my attention that the price Politics and Prose charges for a single print book produced on Opus, their Espresso book printing machine, is not, as I had noted, $8.00 for 200 pages plus $2.00 for every additional hundred or fewer pages. This is just for “public domain” titles. Read the rest of this entry »
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January 18th, 2012
Posted in Digital Printing, Large-Format Printing, Poster Printing | 2 Comments »
The “originality” of a fine art large-format print is of prime concern to artists, and sometimes even more so to art distributors such as galleries, and art fair and art festival sponsors. The value of a work of art depends on its originality and limited nature, but in this era of computers, scanners, and inkjet printers it is relatively easy to digitize an original and create an unlimited number of copies. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Digital Printing, Large-Format Printing, Poster Printing | 2 Comments »
January 16th, 2012
Posted in Book Printing, Digital Printing, Printing, Soft Cover Book Printing | 3 Comments »
An independent bookstore in Washington, DC, called Politics and Prose has installed a new book-making machine (Espresso Book Machine) that poses a number of profound implications for print books. This machine can produce a paperback book of between 40 and 800 pages, in a multiplicity of sizes up to 8” x 10.5”, with most print books ready in four to ten minutes, for a cost of $8.00 for 200 pages plus $2.00 for every additional hundred—or fewer–pages. Read the rest of this entry »
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January 12th, 2012
Posted in Digital Printing, Large-Format Printing, Paper and finishing, Poster Printing, Soft Cover Book Printing | Comments Off on Lamination and Large Format Printing, Book Covers, Posters, Menus
If you research the term “lamination” online, in print books, or by talking with commercial printers, you’ll see that the concept has two distinct meanings. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Digital Printing, Large-Format Printing, Paper and finishing, Poster Printing, Soft Cover Book Printing | Comments Off on Lamination and Large Format Printing, Book Covers, Posters, Menus
January 8th, 2012
Posted in Book Printing, Digital Printing, Offset Printing, Printing, Soft Cover Book Printing | 4 Comments »
Normally I send PDF files to commercial printers or book printers I work with. In handing off a design job, this is often best. If I’m unsure of a printer or just don’t have a personal working relationship with someone in prepress, I can rest assured that the custom printing job that is delivered will match the design files I upload to the commercial printer. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Book Printing, Digital Printing, Offset Printing, Printing, Soft Cover Book Printing | 4 Comments »
January 5th, 2012
Posted in Book Binding Options, Book Printing, Printing, Soft Cover Book Printing | 2 Comments »
Sometimes a job needs to be saved.
I had been working on and off for almost a year designing a friend’s cookbook, as her time had allowed. Design fees were adding up. Fortunately the book was to have a limited press run through a digital, on-demand book printing vendor, but the overall price was still rising, and the custom printing cost would add to this substantially. Read the rest of this entry »
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