Need short run printer
October 5, 2005 10:42 AM Subscribe
Publishing. Need recommendations for a good print-on-demand house for short-run softcover books. The current place we've used has gone downhill and is quoting us 4 weeks on print jobs. Unless they've improved, LightningSource is out because the interiors I saw a year ago looked like photocopies.
If I can slightly hijack this on a tangent:
Please tell more about Lulu/ I'm considering making 2 (comic) books, and they seemed like a good resource.
Specifically: What sort of prep did you do, and what formats did you deliver the work in?
posted by jpburns at 11:40 AM on October 5, 2005
Please tell more about Lulu/ I'm considering making 2 (comic) books, and they seemed like a good resource.
Specifically: What sort of prep did you do, and what formats did you deliver the work in?
posted by jpburns at 11:40 AM on October 5, 2005
Response by poster: Hmmm... no comments, but I was able to Google this thread up called "POD Roundup".
posted by rolypolyman at 12:37 PM on October 5, 2005
posted by rolypolyman at 12:37 PM on October 5, 2005
Lulu.com is the best. Cafepress is also available, but the quality and options at Lulu are better. Lulu even has a specific size book for comics.
You can prepare the document in basically whatever way you want, the final finished format you will need to upload for them to print from will be in a .pdf format. So for example if you did your initial layout in Word or InDesign or Pagemaker or Quark, once it's finished, you will save the final piece as a .pdf.
Great stuff, I've got a couple books published through there that I am very happy with.
posted by RoseovSharon at 1:40 PM on October 5, 2005
You can prepare the document in basically whatever way you want, the final finished format you will need to upload for them to print from will be in a .pdf format. So for example if you did your initial layout in Word or InDesign or Pagemaker or Quark, once it's finished, you will save the final piece as a .pdf.
Great stuff, I've got a couple books published through there that I am very happy with.
posted by RoseovSharon at 1:40 PM on October 5, 2005
I've heard good stuff about booklocker.com -- no personal experience though.
posted by winston at 5:56 PM on October 5, 2005
posted by winston at 5:56 PM on October 5, 2005
You might also want to look locally -- generally speaking, both Kinko's and Alphagraphics are going to have access to a a docutech or some similar high volume printer unit somewhere in the region. Don't go to the counter and ask that retard -- get with one of the regional salespeople and ask them.
posted by ph00dz at 7:00 AM on October 6, 2005
posted by ph00dz at 7:00 AM on October 6, 2005
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posted by headlessagnew at 11:06 AM on October 5, 2005