When your book file is almost ready, the next step is to deciding how to print the physical copies and where to print them. Most of the individual publishers and self-publishing authors can be totally confused the printing services online they may find, seems everyone can print books and other stuffs. I am totally agree because when I try Google “books printing” online and no one will tell you they cannot, but the point is who is the professional for books printing, is that a simple question? From this Books Printing page of Call2Print, we will look to break down some options and help you find the best fit and best services that you really needs.

Before we start, I have a simple question:

How many books you have in mind to print?

Then we can know what type of printing you need, we can break down the printing way as POD and Offset Printing.

As an international printing business, let’s start with offset printing which needs more quantity, lower unit price and very cheap sea shipping cost and it can suitable for all publishers and authors, and of course the best-quality for all kinds of books offset will provide. And then we will fast introduce you digital press AKA print-on-demand option which can print from one copy and one day delivery as urgent overnight print.

Offset Books Printing Services

99% of the publishing house and authors print their books in bulk; let’s say thousands at least, it can reply on traditional sheet offset printing to churn out the hard copies. Technically speaking, offset printing uses printing plates to transfer an image and text onto a rubber blanket and then pressing it onto a sheet of paper, and BLABLA… (You can Google it yourself, how offset printing works.)

Printing by offset means you need order at least 1,000 copies hardcover or 2,000 copies soft cover at once in one project. (Call2Print can accept 500 hardcover and 1,000 paperback as a good start.) Clearly, you will see such a “big” order will leave you a significant bill to should up-front. But, if we talking about the unit cost, the cost per book, offset printing is the way to be the cheapest, which means a higher profit margin for you and your organization.

Offset Printing Can Save You LOTS OF Money!

Mass Printing also makes it much more options for your book, gives you a lot more freedom when it comes to trim sizes, different paper types, cover models, special finishing and more. You can get your books as fancy as possible like hot foil, embossing, die cutting, fabric covers and even waterproof stone paper for your book. You see, we really care about the top quality of the books printing, not just a cold item on the production line but a treasure from your warm heart, after spending a lot of time to write it, to illustrator it, to color it, to edit it and more works.

We began the books printing since 1993 and now about 3 decades alter, we still play the game; we focus on printing even though we developed more services and productions during the 29 years. That’s why I said at the beginning that not every printing company can do the books printing professional and cost less than we do. Printing not just printing progress but also binding and finishing works, we are equipped with automatic paperback gluing and binding system, hard cover binding system, die cutting machines, varnishing machines, UV coating, hot foil machines and more, under one roof.

Digital Printing Services

Books printed on demand (POD) are crated one copy at a time and it can be printed and binding quickly. When we talking about digital printing, no matter to print a book, a catalogue, a greeting card or business card, we can call it POD you like, just to print as you needed. Using this technology, we can print the books similar to offset printing books, actually now the HP Indigo Press can make the quality as close to the mass print, that’s why we use digital press to make sample books for our publishers and authors before the production. The popular site like BookBaby, IngramSpark and KDP, they all do digital printing, we have the same machines like HP Indigo 12000 and Indigo 7600.

If you don’t have large orders lined up, you don’t have enough budgets and you live out of China, considering the extra shipping cost, the digital printing will be the only way for you. The good point is you no need to have storage and you can update your book whenever you like. So for us, we don’t offer digital books printing for authors as oversea printing business, but we offer in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. (Express fee is the main issue)

Which printing service is right for you?

Now we’ve covered all the major printing services for both print-on-demand and offset printing, hope you and understand let’s help you to get your books alive.