Topic: color print-on-demand
Started by: xiombarg
Started on: 5/12/2004
Board: Publishing
On 5/12/2004 at 8:12pm, xiombarg wrote:
color print-on-demand
Well, it seems that booklocker can do color POD printing. It's pricer than rpgmall.com or lulu.com, but it might lower the barrier for people who want to do a full-color extravaganza like the 1st edition Changeling book.
Anyone know anything about this outfit? Anyone else have any experience with a POD outfit that does color? How does booklocker's pricing compare to other POD outfits?
On 5/12/2004 at 11:04pm, hardcoremoose wrote:
RE: color print-on-demand
Kirt,
I asked Media Express - the guys who did My Life with Master - about this a few months back. My request:
fifty pages (36 B&W, 16 full color), 50#
color cover, 65# opague
perfect bound
Their response:
Print run of 50: $6.90 per copy
Print run of 100: $5.56 per copy
Hope this info helps.
- Scott
On 5/12/2004 at 11:12pm, madelf wrote:
RE: color print-on-demand
I thought lulu.com would do color...
On 5/13/2004 at 12:40am, Paul Czege wrote:
RE: color print-on-demand
I asked Media Express - the guys who did My Life with Master...
That's eXpress.media.
Paul
On 5/13/2004 at 12:45am, talysman wrote:
RE: color print-on-demand
madelf wrote: I thought lulu.com would do color...
yep. says so right here.
lulu.com will also do color printing on a book with more pages than booklocker.com, which seems to be limited to no more than 120 pages. compare this to lulu's comment "Very, very long books (over 800 pages or so) may have to be printed in volumes."
for booklocker, you will need to spend $299 on setup plus buy 20 copies at $9.72 each, which is $493.40 total outlay.
for lulu, there is no initial outlay.
On 5/13/2004 at 4:14am, xiombarg wrote:
RE: color print-on-demand
talysman wrote: for lulu, there is no initial outlay.
Okay, I wasn't aware that lulu.com did color... So they're behind the curve on that one, then. They claim to be competitive with other POD services, but I suspected their comparison was selective. ;-D