by Don Leeper | Oct 15, 2015 | Art Book Printing, 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...
by Don Leeper | Sep 23, 2015 | Art Book Printing, 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, Kickstarter | Crowdfunded, 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, Kickstarter | Crowdfunded, 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, Kickstarter | Crowdfunded, 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...