A Quick Guide to Book-On-Demand Printing: Learn How to Print and Bind Your Own Paperback Books
by Allen, Roger MacBrideFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-02-01
Publisher(s): Lightning Source Inc
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Summary
Allen takes readers step-by-step through the essentials of planning, designing, printing, and binding true perfect-bound paperbacks. Whether one's budget is $200 or 20,000, this guide contains the hard-to-find information needed to print and bind real books.
Table of Contents
| Book on Demand: What, How, When, Why--And Who? | p. 1 |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The Economics of Book-On-Demand Printing | p. 3 |
| Purposes of This Guide | p. 6 |
| Sources for Information In This Guide | p. 8 |
| Publishing Realities and Publishing Choices | p. 12 |
| Who Should Consider Book-On-Demand Printing | p. 12 |
| Who Shouldn't Consider Book-On-Demand Printing | p. 13 |
| Is Doing Book-On-Demand Worthwhile? | p. 14 |
| Publishers, Conventional and Otherwise | p. 16 |
| Conventional Publication | p. 17 |
| Vanity Press | p. 24 |
| Private Publishing | p. 25 |
| Self-Publishing | p. 25 |
| Third-Party Book-On-Demand Publishing | p. 27 |
| Out-Sourced Book-on-Demand | p. 29 |
| Big-Time Out-Sourced Book-On-Demand | p. 29 |
| Web-Based Electronic Books | p. 30 |
| Proprietary-Format E-Books | p. 32 |
| Self-Published Book-On-Demand | p. 34 |
| Getting Started | p. 36 |
| The Basic Tasks | p. 36 |
| Equipment for Printing and Paper Handling | p. 42 |
| Monochrome (Black) Laser Printers | p. 43 |
| Color Laser Printers | p. 45 |
| Ink-Jet Printers | p. 46 |
| Paper Cutters (1) For The Initial Cut | p. 48 |
| Paper Cutters (2) For The Final Trim | p. 53 |
| Scoring Tools and Techniques | p. 55 |
| Varnishes and Laminators | p. 57 |
| Page Design and Printing | p. 64 |
| Some Quick Notes on Typography | p. 64 |
| Choosing the Proper Software Tools | p. 66 |
| Paper, Paper Grain, and Paper Curl | p. 68 |
| Opacity | p. 69 |
| Paper Grain | p. 69 |
| Paper Curl and Two-Up Printing | p. 71 |
| One-Up vs. Two-Up Printing | p. 74 |
| Twin Two-Up Printing | p. 75 |
| Duplex Printing | p. 76 |
| Page Imposition | p. 79 |
| Using Custom Paper Sizes To Avoid Imposition and Cutting | p. 83 |
| PostScript, Acrobat, and Page Imposition | p. 84 |
| Acrobat Advantages | p. 87 |
| PostScript Advantages | p. 88 |
| Adding Sheets From Other Sources | p. 90 |
| Printing Book Covers | p. 92 |
| Cover Design | p. 92 |
| ISBNs and Barcodes | p. 93 |
| Using a Commercial Printer | p. 94 |
| Printing Your Own Covers | p. 96 |
| Paper Stocks Suitable for Covers | p. 97 |
| Cover Size and Layout | p. 101 |
| Hand Binding and "Office" Thermal Binders | p. 105 |
| Doing Product Research | p. 107 |
| Short-Run Office Thermal Binding Systems | p. 108 |
| The Evans Do-It-Yourself Thermal Binding System | p. 113 |
| Using Your Binder For Instant Paperback Repair | p. 117 |
| Cold Glue Binding | p. 118 |
| Side-Stapling | p. 122 |
| Gigabooks | p. 122 |
| Small Binding Machines | p. 126 |
| Automated Processes and Hand-Labor | p. 126 |
| Binding Strip Machines | p. 129 |
| Other Small Binding Machines | p. 132 |
| Production Binding Machines | p. 136 |
| General Operating Principles of Most Small Commercial Binding Machines | p. 136 |
| Table-top Binding Machines | p. 142 |
| Floor-Model Binding Machines | p. 148 |
| Commercial Cold-Glue Binding and Lay-Flat Binding | p. 150 |
| Large-Scale Book-On-Demand Systems | p. 154 |
| Access to Large-Scale Hardware | p. 154 |
| On-Demand Sewn Bindings and Case Binding | p. 156 |
| "Black Box" Printing Systems | p. 157 |
| Prototyping, Production and Fulfillment | p. 160 |
| Final Checks | p. 160 |
| Production Printing: Keeping Organized | p. 161 |
| Taking Care of Business | p. 162 |
| Fulfillment Software | p. 163 |
| Appendices | |
| Book-On-Demand Printing As Appropriate Technology | p. 169 |
| Sample Equipment Lists | p. 173 |
| Names and Numbers | p. 182 |
| Backmatter | |
| Index | p. 192 |
| Colophon | p. 195 |
| A Note At The End | p. 196 |
| About The Author | p. 196 |
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