by Don Leeper | Oct 1, 2015 | Opinion, Print Positive
Since the launch of the Kindle, I’ve read eBooks on Kindle, iBooks, Kobo and and Nook—an average of one a week since the first week of December 2007. That’s a lot, and there’s a reason: eBooks are great for certain kinds of reading. I...
by Don Leeper | Sep 23, 2015 | Art Book Printing, Print Positive
Nicole Baxter and I attended the NY Art Book Fair last week to see its amazing congregation of 370 creators and purveyors of all manner of printed art: from mimeographed radical zines to precious objets d’art ensconced in glass cases and hovered over by jaded...
by Don Leeper | Aug 24, 2015 | Art Book Printing, Kickstarter | Crowdfunded, Print Positive
Since there are so many options in hardcover book printing, here’s an illustrated post to show visually what the parts of the hardcover book are. Get a Printing Quote in Seconds! Book Block The book block consists of all the pages of the book attached...
by Don Leeper | Aug 10, 2015 | Art Book Printing, Kickstarter | Crowdfunded, Print Positive
One of the basic choices you make when publishing a fine art photography book or art book is the page format: landscape or portrait? While this is mostly an aesthetic decision, there are significant cost and durability implications: landscape books can cost more to...
by Don Leeper | Aug 3, 2015 | Art Book Printing, Print Positive
Why Bookmobile Added PUR Binding to Our Printing Services Standard EVA bookbinding glues do a great job on uncoated papers, but are questionable when binding really big books on coated papers. As we are getting more and more requests to print art books and fine art...
by Don Leeper | Jul 30, 2015 | Print Positive
Here at Bookmobile, we bought our first digital presses in 1996, and we are now in our sixth generation. So while offset presses can still be productive after a decade of service or more, our digital presses have had an average life span of about 3-1/2 years. The...
