by Nicole Baxter | Apr 27, 2018 | Art Book Printing, Publisher Case Studies
We were super excited to print a custom book for the band The Flaming Lips earlier this month, King’s Mouth. If you’re familiar with the band, you know that they are extremely imaginative: live shows can feature giant rabbits, UFOs, and inflatable human...
by Nicole Baxter | Apr 2, 2018 | Art Book Printing
We’ve been the comic book printer for Coin-Op Books for the last three years, and we just shipped out Coin-Op No. 7: The Doppler Issue. Coin-Op Books is the sister-and-brother team of Maria and Peter Hoey, both illustrators whose work has appeared in magazines,...
by Nicole Baxter | Mar 16, 2018 | Art Book Printing, Fine Art Photo Books
Are you printing photography books? Bookmobile offers great quality and customer service, and competitive pricing. Plus, book printing is our sole focus—for the past twenty years we’ve combined traditional printing values with the latest digital printing...
by Nicole Baxter | Feb 13, 2018 | Art Book Printing
Along with the increase in art book printing Bookmobile has seen from artists, photographers, galleries, and museums, we’re also seeing an increase in anime printing and graphic novels—and we couldn’t be more pleased! It used to be that artists were either...
by Nicole Baxter | Feb 5, 2018 | Book Production, Fine Art Photo Books, Kickstarter
We have seen a sharp uptick in custom coloring book printing requests at Bookmobile, and many are from folks printing a coloring book for the first time. This post covers how to design and print a coloring book, from interior art, to coloring book paper stock...
by Nicole Baxter | Jan 22, 2018 | Book Production
We’re happy to announce we have a new matte lamination option at Bookmobile: a soft-touch velvet matte. This is not replacing our current matte lamination—Bookmobile now offers three lamination choices: gloss, matte, and soft-touch velvet matte. Soft-Touch...
by Nicole Baxter | Jan 5, 2018 | Art Book Printing, Book Production
Bookmobile has worked with Cabinet magazine for artbook printing since 2011. Cabinet is an award-winning nonprofit art and culture magazine based in New York, printed quarterly. As its website aptly describes, Cabinet “looks to previous traditions of the...
by Nicole Baxter | Dec 18, 2017 | Art Book Printing, Book Production
Wondering how to print a comic book, mini comic, or zine? Short-run digital printing (SRDP) is the perfect fit. Once upon a time, artists were limited to either printing 2,000 copies via offset, or producing their comics by photocopying, folding, and stapling. But...
by Nicole Baxter | Dec 12, 2017 | Book Production
Great news! We have signed on to the Renewable*Connect program through Xcel Energy. Now in addition to the eco friendly book printing papers we offer, Bookmobile is now run on 100% wind- and solar-powered clean energy. Our CEO, Don Leeper, says: Our previous efforts...
by Nicole Baxter | Dec 5, 2017 | Book Production
At Bookmobile, we work with over 60 university presses, and in addition to short-run printing we also provide design and typesetting and eBook services. Our quality, customer service, and competitive pricing makes us a great fit for university presses—the printing...
