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...
by Don Leeper | Jul 6, 2015 | Print Positive
Sometimes the page size of a book must be scaled down after the pages have already been laid out, usually for cost reasons. This post discusses the ramifications of doing so, and introduces two new Bookmobile online calculators. Reasons for Resizing a Book...
by Nicole Baxter | Jul 1, 2015 | Publisher Case Studies
I’m stepping away from blogging about art book printing this week to highlight one of our many publishers who primarily print black-ink-only paperbacks. While art book printing is a growing portion of what we do at Bookmobile, black-and-white paperbacks are...
by Don Leeper | Jun 29, 2015 | Print Positive
With the expanding number of art and photography books we’ve been printing, we were a little frustrated by our maximum page size of 11-5/8″ x 11-5/8″. Our clients want to print large books! Since that maximum was set, we’ve had lots of...
