by Don Leeper | Mar 18, 2015 | Book Production, Dropship and Distribution, Opinion, Print Positive
On the occasion of Bookmobile’s thirty-third birthday, our social media maven Nicole Baxter asked me to write up our Origin Story. As I am saving extensive fact checking, memory checking, and actual research for the multi-volume hardcover edition, I guarantee...
by Nicole Baxter | Feb 19, 2015 | Book Production
Every now and then someone surprises me and asks if Bookmobile’s book printing and book binding is archival quality. The answer is YES! Our paper is acid free. We print for university presses. We print for museums. We print books about the...
by Nicole Baxter | Feb 3, 2015 | Book Production
Bookmobile now offers die cutting! It is THE book printing option I have been waiting to offer, and I am really excited to see how our book publisher and art book clients make creative use of die cuts. Pictured above is our first test, and samples...
by Don Leeper | Jan 15, 2015 | Art Book Printing, Book Production, Print Positive
When I was a full-time book printing buyer, I sometimes had projects where the publisher couldn’t make up their mind up about print specifications. Thinking that seeing pricing on all the possible options would help, they would request that I get quotes on...
by Don Leeper | Jan 15, 2015 | Book Production, Print Positive
Writing a request for book printing quotes is simple, but don’t just dash it off: ambiguity and missing information will result in inaccurate quotes, wasting your time. Worse, errors created by inaccurate quote requests can carry through the production process,...
by Don Leeper | Dec 8, 2014 | Art Book Printing, Book Production, Print Positive
Before I was a printer myself, I spent 12 years working for publishers as a book-printing buyer. Along the way, I developed some personal rules for how to save money on book printing. Here they are, updated for today’s world in which offset printing and...
