by Don Leeper | Oct 15, 2015 | Book Production, Fine Art Photo Books, Print Positive
There are three different categories of printable images: full color, line art black-and-white, and continuous tone black-and-white. I’ve covered full color image preparation in a series of posts starting here, and methods of printing continuous tone...
by Don Leeper | Oct 1, 2015 | Opinion, Print Positive
Since the launch of the Kindle, I’ve read eBooks on Kindle, iBooks, Kobo and and Nook—an average of one a week since the first week of December 2007. That’s a lot, and there’s a reason: eBooks are great for certain kinds of reading. I choose the format for crime...
by Don Leeper | Sep 23, 2015 | Art Book Printing, Book Production, Fine Art Photo Books, Print Positive
Nicole Baxter and I attended the NY Art Book Fair last week to see its amazing congregation of 370 creators and purveyors of all manner of printed art: from mimeographed radical zines to precious objets d’art ensconced in glass cases and hovered over by jaded...
by Don Leeper | Aug 31, 2015 | Art Book Printing, Book Production, Fine Art Photo Books, Kickstarter, Print Positive
In the world of offset printing, the route to the highest quality black-and-white printing is pretty clear: print the images as duotones (black ink plus one or more gray inks) or as 4-color process. But what about digital printing? I wanted to know the best way to...
by Don Leeper | Aug 24, 2015 | Art Book Printing, Book Production, Fine Art Photo Books, Kickstarter, Print Positive
Since there are so many options in hardcover book printing, here’s an illustrated post to show visually what the parts of the hardcover book are. Get a Printing Quote in Seconds! Book Block The book block consists of all the pages of the book attached...
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...
