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Printing business has a wide range variety in it. You have clients from every field. They may be a common man, big industrialist, student, sportsperson, advertiser, sales person and every person you can imagine. Their requirement depends upon the kind of work they do. You get printing orders for business cards, letterheads, greeting cards invitations, envelops, flyers, banners, brochures and many different things. Apart from all these, books printing business is now a growing industry. There are many self publishing authors who need to publish and print their books. There are different types of books like novels, history books, recipe books, spiritual books, academic books, school books, education books and many more to name. There many businesses providing printing services.
Just printing black ink to paper is not called as book printing. There are many procedure involved in this business. It not a matter of two to ten pages like some informative brochures. Normally books do have 50 plus pages. So many decisions are to be taken before printing any kind of books. The size of the book has to be determined. The type of printing has to be decided. The cover has to be designed as per the topic. The type of binding has to be taken in to account. You have to decide this all factors with the author of the book before starting out with actual printing.
The first point as mentioned above is the size of the book. For every type of books there are standard sizes. The books which have mass market are usually printed in 4.25 x 7 size. Handbook, fiction books or trade-books are printed in 5.5 x 8.5 size. Business manuals and textbooks have the size of 7 x 9. Gift-books, Art books, Manuals have the size of 7.5 x 9. Coffee table books have the size of 9 x 12. Apart from these standard sizes, author can also suggest their requirements for different sizes. Printing books in standard sizes can reduce the cost of production as there will be no wastage of paper.
After deciding the size of the book, the printing methods have to be decided. There are commonly two ways of printing books. The first one is the Lithograph printing. In this method a printing plate that is made up of thin flexible metal or plastic sheet is used. It is mounted to a cylinder. This gives an excellent quality of printed text and graphics. The images printed are much sharper than any other type of printing. For starting books printing business this kind of printing methods must be made available. The quality of books you produce will benefit you in getting more customers.
The other method commonly used is the digital printing. Here, Digital printing press is used to create a printed paper. The text quality is excellent in this type of printing. The drawback for this method is about the images printed. The image generated is not as sharp as in case of Lithograph printing. This method is although is much cheaper than the Lithograph method of printing. You can have variable numbers of fonts and size for texts. This method is also very easy and convenient. This method is very useful where images quality does not matter or there are no images for other than business people.
After printing the pages comes the book binding part of the book printing business.
Different types of bindings method are available for books. These depend on the type of books. Saddle Stitch book binding are used for Brochures, booklets, newsletter, pamphlets, etc. In this method one or more staples are used in the folds. Other method is the Side Stitch book binding method where the book is stapled on the side rather than the fold. In Case Binding method sewn book is adhered to a hard cover. This is the highest quality hard cover book binding. Double wire binding involves continuous hinge of double looped wire holding the book together. This method is commonly used for cookbooks, calendars, reference manuals, upscale brochures.
The final path of book printing is the cover. For any book to be successful the cover design is very important. The cover of the book should be carefully designed to attract the attention of the readers. The cover design must be well balanced by the images and text combination. This allows ones vision to flow from one section to another. Most of the readers do judge the books by its cover as opposed to the old saying. A well designed cover will say a lot of the matter inside the book. Many books are just sold on the cover picture of a big personality. The back part of the cover is where you get the mater of the book in a short paragraph. These are the few steps that are involved in the starting of books printing business.
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