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Post by wsc3 on Dec 13, 2020 21:20:33 GMT
While I don't know about KDP, a local print house should be able to do that. I don't know what a local print house is. I'm really looking for another web site like Lulu to which I can upload the interior and cover and get a printed copy.
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Dec 13, 2020 21:31:02 GMT
While I don't know about KDP, a local print house should be able to do that. I don't know what a local print house is. I'm really looking for another web site like Lulu to which I can upload the interior and cover and get a printed copy. Amazon's KDP has an easy to use interface.
A local print house would be a local printer like Kinkos or a UPS store with printing services.
KDP might be your easiest choice.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2020 0:49:05 GMT
I don't know what a local print house is. I'm really looking for another web site like Lulu to which I can upload the interior and cover and get a printed copy. Amazon's KDP has an easy to use interface.
A local print house would be a local printer like Kinkos or a UPS store with printing services.
KDP might be your easiest choice.
I agree with RRC.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2020 0:51:49 GMT
While I don't know about KDP, a local print house should be able to do that. I don't know what a local print house is. I'm really looking for another web site like Lulu to which I can upload the interior and cover and get a printed copy. Don't use a local printer. It will cost you an arm and a leg. Google "The best PODs."
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Post by wsc3 on Dec 14, 2020 22:37:59 GMT
I don't know what a local print house is. I'm really looking for another web site like Lulu to which I can upload the interior and cover and get a printed copy. Don't use a local printer. It will cost you an arm and a leg. Google "The best PODs." I'm sorry. What's a POD? Isn't this just called on-line publishing?
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Dec 14, 2020 22:41:15 GMT
POD is Print On Demand
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2020 4:51:56 GMT
I'm sorry. What's a POD? Isn't this just called on-line publishing? wsc3 "Print on demand (POD) is a printing technology and business process in which book copies (or other documents) are not printed until the company receives an order, allowing prints of single or small quantities. While other industries established the build to order business model, "print on demand" could only develop after the beginning of digital printing,[1] because it was not economical to print single copies using traditional printing technology such as letterpress and offset printing." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Print_on_demand
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2020 5:55:08 GMT
Don't use a local printer. It will cost you an arm and a leg. Google "The best PODs." I'm sorry. What's a POD? Isn't this just called on-line publishing? It's Print on Demand. Lulu, Kindle Direct Publishing, Book Baby, Ingram Spark, Blurb and many many other companies print a book only when someone orders it.
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Post by Ken on Dec 15, 2020 6:37:07 GMT
Traditional books were produced on printing presses where spreads of pages were printed on individual sheets of pape, typically a sheet could contain 8, 16 sometimes more pages (back and front of each page. These sheets would be folded and trimmed. Then the sheets would be assembled, stitched, together and then bound into a cover to make the book. It was uneconomical to print just one book so a print run would be for hundreds if not thousands of books. To print a single sheet a printing plate would be created. Thus for a typical book there would be several plates, several print runs or multiple printers and a lot of time spent sorting the sheets to assemble then. The POD Print on Demand process used by Lulu and others is quite different. Instead of a printing press it uses a giant laser printer which rather than using plates receives just a digital image, your PDF, and then prints all the pages of a single book in one go. A typical POD machine as shown in the photo would include the laser printer, cover printer and both a folder attachment and a binder stitcher. These cost thousands of pounds (dollars, euros). Nowadays especially in large cities some traditional print shops are investing in these machines to provide a POD facility in store. As are a number of universities.
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Post by BlueAndGold on Dec 15, 2020 13:11:00 GMT
Thank you for the photo of a POD machine, Benziger! I had no idea the equipment was so small.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2020 13:47:54 GMT
Regarding future books, it kind of depends on what you're trying to do. One suggestion is to do a print through Amazon's KDP, restricting it to the Amazon platform then doing a global release through Ingram Spark. If you buy your own ISBN and distribute through Ingram you keep more of the profit.
I'm really just interesting in creating an 8 1/2 x 11 book and not publishing it. Is KDP an option for that?
You can use Ingram Spark for private projects.
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Post by Ken on Dec 15, 2020 14:32:59 GMT
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Post by wsc3 on Dec 16, 2020 22:07:18 GMT
Just to add about shipping. I ordered a proof in Oct and got the extra printing and shipping time warning. It was ordered,printed, shipped, and delivered in under a week. Six days total I think. Might have been a fluke but it was fast. Now it's Christmas holidays so shipping might be a little slower. But the shipping change I noticed is that they used Fedex this time and that was for the cheapest shipping method at $4.99. So you might get lucky and you might not. I've noticed some other companies I'm dealing with ordering things shipping with Fedex too. Much faster than regular mail. I just checked the status and my book is on track to take 3 weeks to print. Last year it was five days. It will certainly not be here for Christmas. What the heck happened?
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Post by Retread-Retired-Cameron on Dec 16, 2020 22:40:39 GMT
Just to add about shipping. I ordered a proof in Oct and got the extra printing and shipping time warning. It was ordered,printed, shipped, and delivered in under a week. Six days total I think. Might have been a fluke but it was fast. Now it's Christmas holidays so shipping might be a little slower. But the shipping change I noticed is that they used Fedex this time and that was for the cheapest shipping method at $4.99. So you might get lucky and you might not. I've noticed some other companies I'm dealing with ordering things shipping with Fedex too. Much faster than regular mail. I just checked the status and my book is on track to take 3 weeks to print. Last year it was five days. It will certainly not be here for Christmas. What the heck happened? Something about Lulu Press jumping into what was supposed to be an upgrade taking only two days last April comes to mind.
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Post by wsc3 on Dec 27, 2020 16:42:16 GMT
After the disaster this year’s printing experience was, I want to make sure that my new Lulu template is correct and consistent with their requirements, and also will give me the proper attractive formatting results. I don’t use any bleeding, as I understand the term. I have no pictures nor text that extend to the edge of the page. I have a constant, distinct white margin around all pages.
My 8½” x 11” full color book runs 360 – 400 or so pages. Lulu’s creation guide says it should have a 1” interior margin and they “add” 0.5”, at least I think that’s what it means. I'm assuming that I set my template size at 8½” x 11”.
Does “trim” size = template size, i.e., 8½” x 11”?
My current project for 2021 (to be printed at EOY) has these Word 2010 Page Set Up parameters. Are these correct?
Paper 8 ½ x 11 in size
From edge Header: 0.35” Footer: 0.5”
Margins Top: 0.75” Bottom: 1” Inside: 0.75” Outside: 0.75” Gutter: 0.5”
Pages Mirror margins
Orientation Portrait
My book for 2020 was printed with these parameters except that the gutter was 0.35”. It looks great!
Thanks for your help!
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