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RE: Print books in book format
- From: Stephan Wiesner <stephan at stephan-wiesner dot de>
- To: 'Uten Navn' <UtenNavn at subdimension dot com>
- Cc: docbook at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 07:42:55 +0100
- Subject: RE: DOCBOOK: Print books in book format
Hi Lee,
Can you make any suggestions as to the needed machinery? We don't need
to much automation, say 2-3 books a day will be sufficient. We have very
good laser printers at our university and could print the pages and the
cover there.
The finished product should be a real book and all I managed to find was
a real doitallmachine for EUR 150.000 and above or small '~hot melter'
machines with plastic covers that can not be printed on.
We are negotiating with local publishers at the moment, but don't seem
to make to good a deal. It is just to expensive to print a single copy
of a book there and drive over and fetch it, then two days later print
another two copies.
Stephan
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lee Moore [mailto:moore@wrc.xerox.com]
> Sent: Montag, 18. November 2002 19:19
> To: Uten Navn
> Cc: docbook@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: Re: DOCBOOK: Print books in book format
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I work in the area of digital book printing and so I might be
> able to help you.
>
> In our experience, the process of creating a physical book
> (such as you would find in a bookstore) is best designed by
> looking at the steps in reverse order of execution. That is
> to say, start with the finished book and work backwards
> toward the raw materials. This is a "pull" model rather than
> a "push" model. We find that the later steps place
> constraints on the earlier steps so designing the work
> process in the reverse direction of the data flow allows you
> to capture these dependencies.
>
> If I assume that you want a paperback book ("perfect bound"),
> then the
> last two steps are:
>
> 1) do a perfect binding of the book body ("block") to the
> wrap-around cover.
>
> 2) trim the result of above to make the cover and body flush
> with each other.
>
> What steps come before are highly dependent on your binding
> process. For example, "signatures" may or may not be necessary.
>
> I suggest that you interview printers/binderies and
> ask them what formats they accept. If you want a wrap-around
> cover, I would think about how you are going to do that. You
> could use a drawing tool (Adobe Illustrator, etc.). I don't
> think there is a DocBook style sheet to do this.
>
> best of luck to you on your adventure,
>
> Lee Moore
> Xerox Corp.
> Rochester, NY USA
>
>
>
> >>>Uten Navn said:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Does any one of you docbook writers know how a docbook (or
> other document)
> > can be printed (on your personal printer) in a traditional
> book fashion? >
> > I'm looking for a solution where I get the printout
> formatted such that the
> > pages can be wrapped up like a ordenary book.
> >
> > Ex: Print two pages on each side (A4 in my case) of the
> paper. When the
> > pages are printed I could use a stapler, old fashone
> thread or something to
> > bind the pages.
> >
> > Any pointers, links or sugestions would be appreciated.
> >
> > Best Regards
> > Staale Flock
> >
>
>
>