Choose the Right Method for Book Printing

This blog will look at choosing the right printing service, types of printing, and its importance. In today’s world, digital book printing is way more popular than its traditional counterpart. Whether you are an author, or a business professional creating a marketing tool. You find the right book printing service. 

The following steps are to important to choose the right book printing service:

• Requirements Need to be Determined: First, you need to clarify your printing needs. You need to know the book’s format, size, colour, options and number of copies that are required to determine the printing service that will work for you. 

• You need to seek quality and expertise: The quality of the final product should be the most important thing. You need to look for a digital printing service that has a good reputation to deliver books that are of good quality. You need to examine samples of previous work that includes spiral book binding and book printing. You need to choose someone who is a specialist in book printing and not just book binding. 

•  Research on printing techniques that are in vogue: Different printing techniques produce different results. Offset printing and digital printing are used for books. Offset printing may be good for ideal printing runs. It provides good digital accuracy and sharpness. Digital printing has become more popular, due to cost-effectiveness and small print quantity.

• Advantages and Disadvantages of customization: If you wish to add special features in the book, or customize it in a different way. Your digital printer has customisation options. These include embossing, spot varnishing and finish techniques for enhancement of book aesthetics such as a photo finish book. 

• You need to find a printer that works for your budget: Budget is an important consideration for a book. You need to obtain quotes for different printing services for your book to compare prices. 

• You need to speed up your success: You need to consider the printing service’s turnaround time, if you have a deadline which you need to consider, according to the production schedule and delivery time. 

Anyhow, book printing is more than just ink on paper. It has a lot more factors to consider. You are bringing your creative vision to life. This is no cake walk. A well- crafted book should have good print quality. Paper selection should be such that the paper type resonates with the readers, and quality of printing and methods of book printing matters too. 

The methods of printing used for books are as follows:

• Offset Printing: This method of book printing transfers ink from a plate to a rubber blanket, and then, it is transferred to the printing surface. First aluminum plates are created, then, each colour is used in the print job, each plate mounted on the cylinder is inked. This works best for large volume printing for books, magazines.

Advantages of Offset Printing

 The advantages of offset printing are as follows: 

• Sharp clean images are created with true to life colours that look glossy. 

• The more you print, the less you need to pay because it depends on print run.

Disadvantages of Offset Printing

 The disadvantages of offset printing are as follows:

• It is not good for small print runs. 

• It is time- consuming and takes a long time to set up.

Digital Printing

Digital images are transferred directly without plates. It is helpful for short print runs, and when fewer books are published. Digital files are sent to the printer. The printer then uses ink to reproduce the image.

Advantages of digital printing

The advantages of digital printing are as follows: 

• It is viable, when you need fast production. 

• Dry toner produces sharp vibrant prints.

Disadvantages of digital printing

The disadvantages of digital printing are as follows:

• White lines can sometimes appear on the surface of the paper, after a book has been digitally printed.

Print On Demand

This is a digital printing process of books printed, when orders are actually received. A digital file is sent to the company, when a customer places the order.

Advantages of Print On Demand

The advantages of print on demand are as follows:

• The book printing service need not keep a stock of your book. This eliminates financial penalties to authors. 

• Authors can bring books to the market, and they can revise content in the book.

Disadvantages of Print On Demand

• The cost/ per book may be higher than all the printing methods. Paper quality, styling and book finishing styles may not have many options.

Summing up, choosing the best printing method can achieve the outcome that you desire. You need to choose, according to material, quality of paper, number of books that need to be printed. Offset printing is for large runs, Digital printing is good for short runs, and print on demand is good for first time authors who are not sure about book response in the market. A well- informed choice will elevate your book in the market and make an instant hit with the readers.