1. Choosing the Right Book Printers
This is the biggest and perhaps even more difficult decision than your preliminary decision of
writing a book. Why? Because the overall success of your book writing project largely
depends on the capabilities of your book printer. They can make your books appear on each
book shelf or can cause empty shelves of exhilaration.
This necessitates you to choose a commercial printer you can completely rely on. You need to
develop a trust relationship with your printer to get the job done in an expertly and timely
manner. Since different types of printing projects may need different types of printing
services, it is essential to know if the required services are offered by the commercial printer
you are considering.
The Deciding Factors
The best way to choose a book printer is to locate a book printing company with perfect
assimilation of quality services and affordable prices. Finding this detail is not a difficult task
today. Most of the established and even new printing companies maintain their functional
websites to put on updates of their services and to provide quotes.
You can request free quotes for your printing project from multiple book printing companies
based on your project requirements. This will get you a fair idea about time and cost to get
your printing project completed. In order to get a perfect quote, you will need to include
following important details:
Type of printing required
Number of pages in the manuscript
Size of the book
As a general rule, shorter manuscripts and common book size is good for less expensive
printing. More pages and a unique book size would demand customized services to
remarkably increase the printing cost.
Out of the collected quotes, you can short list best quotes with acceptable rates for further
consideration. Apart from the printing price, there are many other things that you must check
before finalizing your commercial printer.
You will want to know more about the printing equipments, paper varieties and binding
services of the company as these factors again can bring huge differences in the total printing
cost. The selection of print and paper quality must be good as ultimately only that will craft
the look and feel of your book.
Ideally, you must decide on a book printing company that holds the right capabilities to
deliver as per your requirement. Some printers add on extra delivery charges to significantly
raise the bill, so check every detail before you choose their services.
Resource Box: It is advantageous to choose local book printing to keep a check on the
project as it progresses and pick up the consignment yourself when ready.