Need a book printer for a specific type of book.
June 21, 2011 12:11 PM Subscribe
Need a book printer for a specific kind of book.
I'm looking for a self-publishing book printer to do a book of my cartoons. While the cover needs to be in color of course, the interior content will be black & white line drawings with grayscale shadings and word captions. I've done this before but have become disenchanted with my old printer's reproduction quality on my last book. It's easy enough to find self-publishing houses out there but they all focus on the printed word. I'm trying to find one that can handle the graphics really well.
Suggestions anyone?
I'm looking for a self-publishing book printer to do a book of my cartoons. While the cover needs to be in color of course, the interior content will be black & white line drawings with grayscale shadings and word captions. I've done this before but have become disenchanted with my old printer's reproduction quality on my last book. It's easy enough to find self-publishing houses out there but they all focus on the printed word. I'm trying to find one that can handle the graphics really well.
Suggestions anyone?
Are you looking to do a print run or a print-on-demand thing?
I know several webcomics types who have had books printed by Lebonfon with reasonable degrees of success, seems like you have to keep up the communications and be sure you tell them what you want... i.e. the final result was excellent but I know of misprints that had to be sent back, not sure what the average statistics are or should be on that for small print runs.
Google searches for independent comics and printers turn up a few forum threads, as well as a few creators who give their own list.
posted by aimedwander at 12:32 PM on June 21, 2011
I know several webcomics types who have had books printed by Lebonfon with reasonable degrees of success, seems like you have to keep up the communications and be sure you tell them what you want... i.e. the final result was excellent but I know of misprints that had to be sent back, not sure what the average statistics are or should be on that for small print runs.
Google searches for independent comics and printers turn up a few forum threads, as well as a few creators who give their own list.
posted by aimedwander at 12:32 PM on June 21, 2011
Response by poster: Sorry, I should have been more specific. I'm looking for perfect binding and will buy in quantity. Thanks.
posted by lpsguy at 12:54 PM on June 21, 2011
posted by lpsguy at 12:54 PM on June 21, 2011
If you're talking books, I was very pleased with Lightning Source's repro quality on a softcover with a number of b/w photos I printed with them a year or so back. That was just using their basic paper-stock, nothing fancy.
posted by Hogshead at 1:37 PM on June 21, 2011
posted by Hogshead at 1:37 PM on June 21, 2011
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A lot of my friends who self publish comics like Ka-Blam, but I've also heard that they do really well on saddlestitched(stapled) comics, but less so with perfect bound books. But you can order one book to test as a proof, so there's that.
I've been talking with 360 Digital Books about printing mine, and they've been really responsive and provide a ton of options. I own a couple of books printed by them and the quality is fantastic.
posted by sawdustbear at 12:25 PM on June 21, 2011