Print a fancy planner?
February 4, 2015 5:07 AM Subscribe
I want to design, print, and bind a planner similar to Whitney English's Day Designer and Emily Ley's Simplified Planner. I can do the design, but I have no idea how to find a printer.
I believe the Day Designer and Simplified Planner are both commercially printed and bound in China. I don't know if I could do the same on a such a tiny scale (a batch of 1!), or if a local printer could meet the specifications:
Not having much luck with Google. :( I've found some "custom book printing" sites that seem sorta scammy / geared toward self-publishing standard books.
How can I get started with finding a printer?
I believe the Day Designer and Simplified Planner are both commercially printed and bound in China. I don't know if I could do the same on a such a tiny scale (a batch of 1!), or if a local printer could meet the specifications:
- Gold foil on the cover / pages
- Gold corners
- Hardback cover with pocket
- Wire binding (not plastic comb/spiral)
Not having much luck with Google. :( I've found some "custom book printing" sites that seem sorta scammy / geared toward self-publishing standard books.
How can I get started with finding a printer?
Best answer: Start with the most critical elements--wire-o binding and a heavy cover stock/chipboard cover--and see if your local quick printer can handle that (most likely they only do plastic comb or coil, ugh).
A "full-service" printer can handle all this including the hot foil stamping although it won't be cost effective.
However I've made notebooks as a combination of DIY (covers, trimmed blank or photocopied/printed pages, tab divider pages, pockets) and taken it to a printer to be bound. Quick printers will do it (with the plastic coil) for like $1. But if you call around, you might find someone who'll do wire-o.
posted by TWinbrook8 at 6:15 AM on February 4, 2015
A "full-service" printer can handle all this including the hot foil stamping although it won't be cost effective.
However I've made notebooks as a combination of DIY (covers, trimmed blank or photocopied/printed pages, tab divider pages, pockets) and taken it to a printer to be bound. Quick printers will do it (with the plastic coil) for like $1. But if you call around, you might find someone who'll do wire-o.
posted by TWinbrook8 at 6:15 AM on February 4, 2015
This place does custom fancy books. I wonder if you might also be able to print it fairly cheaply somewhere as a "sample" for a larger run if you tell them you're considering that (like this place, maybe, though I don't know if they do fancy books).
posted by three_red_balloons at 7:45 AM on February 4, 2015
posted by three_red_balloons at 7:45 AM on February 4, 2015
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posted by nickggully at 6:05 AM on February 4, 2015