by Don Leeper | Feb 16, 2015 | Art Book Printing, Book Production, Fine Art Photo Books
In a previous post I discussed the options for printing professional photo books. But how do you create the book in the first place? This post lists your options, and then covers one option—professional page layout software—in detail. Photographers are pretty familiar...
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 are in the works....
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 them...
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, Uncategorized
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 digital...
by Nicole Baxter | Nov 13, 2014 | Book Production, Publisher Case Studies
At Bookmobile, of course we print books, but we also print literary, art, and scholarly journals and magazines . . . . . . for undergraduate and MFA programs, writing programs, literary presses, university presses, associations, etc. Bookmobile provides the...