On-demand publishers set up your digital manuscript to be printed one book at a time using a Docu-tech. You pay a set fee of between $350 and $1,250 and receive in return one hardback copy of your book and one [...]
No. The white of the paper never counts as a color. A one-color cover is one ink-color on white paper, so unless you fill up the whole cover with that ink-it could be black or red or green or any [...]
I believe a personal anecdote can best answer this question. Several years ago I produced a monthly ad-supported comedy magazine called the “Broadneck Baloney”. It was thirty-two 8-1/2 x 11 self-covered pages, printed in two colors on 50# offset paper, [...]
No, and the reason for this is because we are using direct-to-plate technology with your PDF files, so we do all of the same steps all over again. You may be able to skip seeing a proof though and that [...]
Because it is relatively new, digital printing gets a lot of attention these days. Digital is associated with on-demand, which is associated with short runs, low cost, and fast turnarounds. Do most on-demand printers live up to the hype? Not [...]