Printing

When you deal in books, you have to actually have books. Terrible, isn't it. Well, let me run through this story. First, the artist (the wonderful Rebecca Becker) came to me and made individual chapter headings for every chapter. STUNNING stuff. If you're reading this and haven't bought the book, do so. Just the pictures are worth it. So, we moved towards printing. I kept making little changes in the QuarkExpress files to keep things up to spec for printing, as I understood it. Now I understand it a lot better and I could do a much faster job. So I used print-industry.com to get quotes. I got about 20 back - running from about 70 cents/copy including shipping to about $2.20. I didn't use the cheapest bidder. I used the cheapest who was a mainline book printer in the US. I don't know enough to work with Asian producers who can't speak or read English yet. So, I paid about 80 cents for my 168-page book. My print shop is Data Reproductions. They have been great so far. We'll see how the books come out. When I see them, I will be sure to update this page!