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What’s the Better Format for Photo and Art Books, Landscape or Portrait?

What’s the Better Format for Photo and Art Books, Landscape or Portrait?

by Don Leeper | Aug 10, 2015 | Art Book Printing, Book Production, Fine Art Photo Books, Kickstarter, 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...
Bookmobile Adds PUR Binding for Art Books and Fine Art Photo Books

Bookmobile Adds PUR Binding for Art Books and Fine Art Photo Books

by Don Leeper | Aug 3, 2015 | Art Book Printing, Book Production, Fine Art Photo Books, 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...
Six Generations of Digital Presses in Nineteen Years

Six Generations of Digital Presses in Nineteen Years

by Don Leeper | Jul 30, 2015 | Art Book Printing, Book Production, Fine Art Photo Books, Kickstarter, 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...
Kickstarter Creators Kick It With Cool Book Printing

Kickstarter Creators Kick It With Cool Book Printing

by Don Leeper | Jul 22, 2015 | Art Book Printing, Book Distribution, Book Production, Fine Art Photo Books, Kickstarter

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 way of publishing,...
How many pages will your book have? A castoff can tell you.

How many pages will your book have? A castoff can tell you.

by Don Leeper | Jul 13, 2015 | Art Book Printing, Fine Art Photo Books, Kickstarter, 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 actual, final...
Resizing a Book to Fit on a Different Page Size

Resizing a Book to Fit on a Different Page Size

by Don Leeper | Jul 6, 2015 | Art Book Printing, Book Production, Fine Art Photo Books, 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...
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