by Nicole Baxter | Aug 13, 2015 | Art Book Printing, Book Production, Kickstarter | Crowdfunded, Opinion, Publisher Case Studies
Last night, my family and I attended the 2015 Internet Cat Video Festival. It was meow-velous! The phenomenon that is the Internet Cat Video Festival is now in its fourth year. If this is the first time you’ve ever heard about this international...
by Don Leeper | Aug 10, 2015 | Art Book Printing, Kickstarter | Crowdfunded, Print Positive
One of the basic choices you make when publishing a fine art photography book or art book is the page format: landscape or portrait? While this is mostly an aesthetic decision, there are significant cost and durability implications: landscape books can cost more to...
by Nicole Baxter | Aug 6, 2015 | Art Book Printing, Publisher Case Studies
The sculptor Will Clift is a new client for Bookmobile. Will came to us to print his exhibition catalog for the Gerald Peters Gallery in New York, New York, and Santa Fe, New Mexico. I love that we’re seeing more and more clients for art book printing...
by Don Leeper | Aug 3, 2015 | Art Book Printing, Print Positive
Why Bookmobile Added PUR Binding to Our Printing Services Standard EVA bookbinding glues do a great job on uncoated papers, but are questionable when binding really big books on coated papers. As we are getting more and more requests to print art books and fine art...
by Don Leeper | Jul 30, 2015 | Print Positive
Here at Bookmobile, we bought our first digital presses in 1996, and we are now in our sixth generation. So while offset presses can still be productive after a decade of service or more, our digital presses have had an average life span of about 3-1/2 years. The...
by Nicole Baxter | Jul 28, 2015 | Art Book Printing, Publisher Case Studies
We have worked with Sofawolf Press for over twelve years, printing short runs of their graphic novels, anthologies, and novels, including the Artistic Visions series, which looks at the creative process and artwork of illustrators and artists. Based in Saint...
by Nicole Baxter | Jul 24, 2015 | Art Book Printing, Book Production, Dropship and Distribution
Nine months ago, I wrote Twenty-One Ways to Embellish Your Print Books. Thanks to the new capabilities we have here at Bookmobile, as well as all the new work we’ve seen from our publishers since then—especially our art book printing clients and...
by Don Leeper | Jul 22, 2015 | Art Book Printing, Kickstarter | Crowdfunded
A new kind of publisher, the Kickstarter creator, has discovered Bookmobile book printing and distribution services. Though we didn’t actually seek out Kickstarter projects—Kickstarter creators found us—we’re super excited about this new...
by Don Leeper | Jul 13, 2015 | Print Positive
How do you estimate your page count? A castoff. A page count estimate created before a book is actually designed is called a castoff. “Estimate” is the operative term here; castoff page counts are only estimates and will almost certainly vary from the...
by Nicole Baxter | Jul 9, 2015 | Art Book Printing, Book Production, Publisher Case Studies
Perhaps it’s obvious, but here’s a reminder: Color printing is not just for art and photography books or journals and exhibition catalogs. We print a wide range of books at Bookmobile; our high-quality color printing combined with the...