Book Production From Start To Finish, Digital Printing and Binding Perfect Bound Books
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ต.ค. 2020
- For pricing check out www.justaprinter.com This is the step by step process that I use to manufacture perfect bound books in my print shop. Starting from Adobe Indesign, Illustrator and Photoshop we output a PDF and open it in Acrobat. There I impose the book either two up, four up or six up using PDF Snake imposition software. After that I send the imposed file to the appropriate printing press. Covers get laminated on one side before proceeding to the CP Bourg 3002 perfect binder. There is where the covers get glued to the book block. Finally a quick trip through the Challenge CMT 330 three knife trimmer and the books are finished. It's that easy! Thanks for watching.
I see Kindle owners are utilizing the thumbs down. :)
Don’t worry about idiots and low IQ viewers they probably think videos about books are just nasty due to their inability to read - nice content dude interested in old worlde printers but this is super interesting great to see that printing is actually done in a place other than the evil kingdom - nice work.
I think they are not book lovers
@Rogue Mentality No don’t ease up it’s informative to see some anon spewing anonymous bile at some dude running a great small business on his own and doing really well And being a fantastic friendly and helpful creator - your postings are saying so much more about you than I could possibly hope too do - and my English is a bit poor as it is my third language - how many languages do you have.?
@Rogue Mentality okay mr redditor
@@rupert5390 It hurts to read this. I hope the 2 other languages you use has , in its syntax.
I don’t know why TH-cam recommended this video, but it was very interesting to watch and you have an awesome job 👍🏻
Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for letting me know!
@@justaprinter I am with him ♥
Yeah i am here after recommendation.
Right!
Yap
You are an amazing man for what you do: a teacher, an engineer, a thinking person, etc.
Thank you! Just trying to help others succeed!
Here because I’m getting into book printing with custom book covers! Wish me luck boys
Have fun!
Good luck
As a graphic designer this was super helpful to see the process! Thank you!
You're so welcome!
This is both strangely nerdy and satisfying to watch.
I do confess, I am a nerd.
I dearly appreciate the way you display what has to happen and the settings required for the desired results. This is a tremendous help so we, as publishers, can determine if our software is appropriate for our books. You have given me the minute details I needed to help my margin measurements "balance out." Thank you! Subscribed!
Wonderful, you made my day! Glad to help!
Thank you for your video series! What a relief to have found you. I will be the new guy at a small printing shop soon. (Just retired from building cars for 30 years.) As I go through your playlists I will be taking notes and looking up the terminology to ease/reduce my learning curve. Your instruction and in-depth explanations are greatly appreciated.
Writing is who I am and I'm good at it like fast good but I am always fascinated how stuff actually works. Behind the scenes. Other videos say 'this is what happens when we make book but it's either not as in depth or they start with the 2nd to last step. You cover it all. New respect for what goes on on your end. Authors wouldn't be able to be them without peeps like you so major props. Keep it up!!
Thank you. I really enjoy helping authors preserve and distribute their writing!
Would you mind sharing links or info to some of your books?
found myself here, watching you explain a process i long wanted to know how its done... you Sire are forever in my heart.
Glad I could help!
I've never seen the process of printing a book, so this was great fun. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@justaprinter i printed a book cover using 350gsm paper but it cracked on the spine and does not look high quality.
What paper do you use for covers?
What's the name of your company so I cab get a quote?
One man printing operation, not like the old days with giant, Multilith presses, large process cameras, layout and light tables, a dark room and not even a venerable hot waxer for the hard copy! Typesetting was done by a specially trained operator, page make up done by someone wielding an Xacto blade. Nice shop and set up. Back in the day, you'd need at least 8-10 people to do what you're doing by yourself.
Absolutely, times have changed big time! I helped my Dad for hours shooting and developing negatives in our darkroom. Now my darkroom is just a huge closet. :)
@@justaprinter Your shop is quite impressive, modern, efficient, well lit and clean. I've worked in a few dungeon print shops in my time, your set up is a printers dream.
Wonderful video. Explained stuffs in 30 minutes which normally takes years to acquire. Thanks for your kind heart to share the information. Learnt a lot.
Glad to help!
It's not about knowledge it's about experience. 😊
I'm a copier dealer, and I sell a lot of this stuff to printers, who're looking for off lease used pieces to finish out there print strategies. In all honesty, I am not as well versed in the pieces as I should be. Thanks for this step by step guide, it's great to see what each piece actually does, and to learn more about some of the tricks to get the best use of them.
Awesome! Glad you enjoyed.
Absolutely loved this video! Great introduction to the process! Was always wondering how book production works! Hope to get into it some day!
Awesome! Thank you!
As someone who does some work in print over in Helsinki, Finland this is a great video. If you want to understand the Print on Demand process I recommend watching it! Excellent work!
Thanks for that!
I was in printing for 26 years - LOVED IT - MISS IT!!! No work in Buffalo area and pay is garbage if you find work! - thanks for the memories!
Bummer! Glad you like my videos!
Its so awesome that you actually took the time to document the whole process. I wish I had this when I was starting to learn, wonderul job.
Thanks!
Thanks for this video and going in more details how your workflow is structured. I also really appreciated the detailed explanation of the perfect binding machine. Very interesting!
You bet. Thanks for watching!
Very cool to see the process. Thanks for all you do to create our wonderful books!
I own a printing business in India... i am doing offset and digital and labels and screen and binding ... but it is wonderful to see your working style and the automation all around you... even after spending the whole day in a press your videos are refreshing... good luck and God bless you bro
Thank you!!!
Contact info?
Hey I am the author (based in India) of "Innocents, Immortals, and Amoral Gods". I am looking to print and sell the paperback. Provide your contact details, so we can talk business.
Hey I am the author (based in India) of "Innocents, Immortals, and Amoral Gods". I am looking to print and sell the paperback. Provide your contact details, so we can talk business.
Hey I am the author (based in India) of "Innocents, Immortals, and Amoral Gods". I am looking to print and sell the paperback. Provide your contact details, so we can talk business.
Awesome! We are producing our perfect bound books almost the same way. I appreciate a lot taking your time for detailed explanations 🙏🏻
You bet!
Where to buy the equipment? any company or website? I would like to buy one to print my books
Hi Dan, this video popped up in my feed so took a look. I have 37 years print experience from large format offset to A3 based digital. You have a great setup and know what you are doing (rare these days in print). All the best.
Thanks so much!
Great job explaining the process, I've been in the printing industry for 32 years we PBM hundredths of thousands of books per month your. processes are perfect.
Awesome! Thanks!
Fascinating! Thanks for taking the time to show the whole process.
Glad you enjoyed it!
This was nice to watch! I hand-bind with traditional methods and it's interesting to see basically the same techniques done in production.
Neat! Hand binding is an art!
One of the best TH-cam videos I've ever seen. So much quality information. You've got me messing around in In Design today. Also, caught that Step Brother's reference my man!
LOL, thanks!
Don't worry about it! Your "went by as you go" approach is informative. Thanks and good luck!
I appreciate that!
Hello Dan, very nice operation and very educational videos! I've been in various digital printer technical sales support positions for years, currently with Ricoh Production, and have seen a lot of print shops both huge and small, and I admire your efficiency and smart use of tech.
Thank you, this is what I need to know, It will be a great help to me
Have a great weekend, from Ireland
Glad it was helpful!
This was a fascinating video, thank you. Subscribed!
Awesome, thank you!
Very cool how the book gets glued.
Yes it is!
I love the state of the art of your machines. You are on edge
I'm not sure why this turned up in my recommendations but it was fascinating all the same. Thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for watching!
A book lover says thank you for making this video ❤️
You're so welcome!
It was great to see the video. I myself a printing technologist highly appreciate your effort in educating and helping other printers by sharing your valuable experience. Hoping you keep sharing similar kinds of videos in future...god bless you
Thank you! I enjoy sharing knowledge with others.
Good afternoon
, I am writing my first book, and creating my cover page. I'm watching the segment of your class it is very enlightening I am learning much I just needed the tools to get the job done... Thank you I appreciate you taking the time to teach and explain it clearly. Have a great day
Always love looking at the set ups. Currently I outsource my perfect binds to a local bindery. I don't do too many so investing in a machine of my own is cost prohibitive. But that is a goal one day. I have a small table top model that is only used for rough proofing be for I send off my printed material to the bindery. Thanks for another great video.
Interesting. It is nice just having someone else do the work too. :)
Love it!! 👌 I have nearly the exact same set up in the UK 🇬🇧 Love to see the insight to how you tackle it!! Got to love perfect binding 👌
Awesome! Thank you!
@@justaprinter keep at the videos! 👌
During the Pandemic I started writing to past the time of quarantining at home and in the hospital; I am so glad that I found you because I wanted to learn how to self publish so I can control my content; but after seeing all these different machines yada yada yada. I will be contacting you to get a quote for my printing needs when I am finished editing my books. Thanks soo much for this presentation this is truly STEP BY STEP!!
Good to hear!
indeed,i am student, schooling in ghana but i will be very happy and glade to seeing myself in your shop
I'm sure you can find a digital print shop closer to you and save yourself some money. :)
Great stuff. I'm a bindery manager and we have a bourg 3002 so I was interested in how you set and adjusted. We also have a tecnau libra 800 reel to book, book of one line and a Kolbus KM200 bookjet line producing cased and limp books. Although I enjoy my job I envy you with your setup. I wish you all the best for your future and hope that covid does not affect your business adversely. 👍
Wow, just watched a video on Libra 800. That is a neat machine. You are running some nice stuff! Thanks for watching!
Great! This gives me hope that a small production run is plausible for a future project. (Y)
Glad to help!
I was just looking for a printing shop to print 20,000 newsletters and your videos caught my eyes, everything you do is amazing!
Thank you, I enjoy it!
I could watch this for hours and never get bored.
Thank You Just A Printer
You are welcome!
I’m writing, printing and binding my own books. This is sooooo helpful.
Wonderful!
Hey, love your videos. when creating the PDF file you can save the preset so you don't have to go in and turn on crops each time I have one called Press Quality Crops. Set it the way you want and then click the icon in the upper right corner (arrow into a rectangle) The "Save Adobe PDF Setting As" click that and name it. Thank for the videos!
Great tip! I will do that. Genius!
Mine is Press Quality with bleeds. :)
I have no idea how I came to this video, but oddly enough, it was GREAT to watch a man the passion this man has for what he clearly enjoys that made me watch the whole video. Good on you man,, Love you passion.
Glad to hear you enjoyed the video. I didn't realize my passion of printing showed through in this video. Thanks!
Thankyou so much, I can't wait to get my book printed!
Thanks for doing this! I was looking forward to this since a year ago! :)
You bet, glad to help!
Saludos desde Ecuador, te agradezco mucho por tus conocimientos que nos compartes quisiera llegar a tener todas las máquinas que tienes algún día, tengo una Konica Minolta c368 y lo hago todo desde ahí, está semana tengo que entregar 36 libros en tamaño A5 y lo hago todo desde mi máquina c368 portada y hojas internas, el laminado también lo hago ya que adquirí la máquina hace unos meses, solo tengo que tercerizar el servicio de encolado al calor para que se pegue los libros. Eres mi inspiración de como quisiera que sea mi negocio en algunos años, saludos
Es genial escucharlo, ¡sigue trabajando duro y lo conseguirás!
Fantastic video. That 30 minutes flew by. Thanks for sharing all of this!
You bet!
I may need references to where to get these machines
Deeply thankful for your generous sharing of the full process!
You’re welcome.
*PDF:*
I'm about to end this man's whole career
PDF's make my life so much easier actually. But yes, there is always a possibility the print will decrease in the future. I would doubt it in my lifetime though. Time will tell.
@@justaprinter Just pulling your leg bro, keep up the good work!
@@justaprinter
I agree...
Me thinks there will always be books, but then again, who knows what the future holds, some say that the Wheel and wall will always exist, but I could see a world without both in the future. if what we think we know is a Drop then what we don't know becomes an Ocean.
@@justaprinter There will always be books. 😊
Such a cool breakdown of the process, thanks for sharing.
My pleasure!
Thank you very much for the educative comments. Keep it up and great work!
16:29 - Um... is that really Comic Sans? Oh dear!
Looks like it might be. I just get paid to put ink on paper. :) Don't judge.
@@justaprinter You should not lose "the right believe" just for money! Kill all Comic Sans! :-D Btw. great video, thanks ;-)
@@l000kin Could you elaborate what the problem is with Comic Sans? I feel that many designers are clueless to what they are doing and cannot present factual arguments on this issue. I'd be delighted if you were the first to differ from that.
So please tell us. Why does it need to be killed?
Thanks in advance for your insights.
@@kontoname Comic sans is just slightly ugly. It looks childish, like it belongs in a comic. As a kid I always found it patronising because when it was used on notices or fliers I always knew it was directed towards children.
@@kontoname typography is supposed to follow lots of rules and comic sans pretty much followed none (the letters spacing is absolutely terrible, see for exemple "fingers" how you almost read "f inger s" that's not a layout error, that's comic sans) to understand the hate we also have to understand the context, back when it was an overly used font. imagine opening the annual report of a company with this font on every title because "hey, its almost handwritten". comic sans is not that bad if you compare it to the pile of shit you can find on dafont nowadays but back in the days it was one of the most terrible font and it was on every computers, in every office!!
A "corrected" version of comic sans exists and i think its called comic sans neue and well yeah it still look ugly hahaha
All of these documentaries need to display a warning before watching them that reads “ Warning the following documentary is highly addictive and may keep you up at night wanting more”
Thats great!
Awesome setup!
Thanks for sharing your knowledge! It seems to me a great channel in which you learn a lot
Eager to see more content!
Welcome! Glad you found me!
How much it'll cost to set up a printing press with all these machines 😃 eagerly waiting for you reply.
Depends if you buy used or new. Would be tens of thousands for used and hundreds of thousands for new.
I noticed the Whittier Mailing Products box. Same company I get my tabs and address imprinter ink cartridges from. Great explanation breaking down the operation of the binder and 3 knife. Long long ago the company I worked at printed books for Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard and the binder ran PUR lay flat.pretty amazing back in the 90’s
Yes, I might need to consider a PUR machine in the future, that stuff seems like it would be a good fit if the numbers make sense.
Best video. First time watching how books are made
Glad you enjoyed it!
Wow your shop is so clean and organized.
Thank you!
Wow, this was so interesting. It reminded me of when Mr. Rogers would take "us" on a tour of a factory to learn how something was made....really neat to get an inside look at how books are made.
Glad you like it, thanks for watching!
As usual! Awesome for me to improve my production process!
Great to hear!
Printer here. Offset by trade. Full digital machines these days. Book binder now too. it's nice to see someone else doing it too.
Yup, there are a few of us out there! :)
I am in the process of getting my book published so this was very educational to watch 😊
I didnt know how much I DID'NT know until I watched your video! Thanks for helping this beginner!
Happy to help!
Thank you so much for sharing all the details. The demo and the information are truly very helpful.
You bet, glad you liked it.
Don't know why I'm watching this but I do not have regrets.
LOL, that is hilarious!
fascinating video. I am a DIY home book binder, but it is great to see your equipment and process. Thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching!
you guy really don't know what step you have added to my career. thanks alot
You are welcome!
So you do all of that just by yourself? Man, that's impressive. Amazing video, sir. Just loved it. You've got yourself a new subscriber.
Welcome aboard!
Hi friend, thank you for your information. Well explained. You have shown me some interesting ways to do perfect binding and I appreciate your explanations.
Glad to help!
Fascinating process video. Subbed!
Good to hear, welcome!
Awesome tutorial. Thanks Dan!!
Glad you liked it!
Fascinating! My mind just got blown!
Glad to help!
I used to service the same Konica 5500 or 6500 print engine before I retired. I loved those systems, very tech-friendly. The blue engine looks like a Konica 8000, I retired just as Konica was releasing them to the US. I also serviced Canon 7000 systems.
What A wonderful Process Thanks for the video
Glad you enjoyed it!
Nice professional tutorial, thank you!
You are welcome!
Phenomonal work. You are a one man industry!
Thanks!
wonderful to see how a book in my hand is made.
Glad you like it!
Great video and such a great quality of work!!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I do enjoy your videos. Thank you!
Thanks for watching!
thank you for the tour, ur doing a good job , i like it
Thanks for watching!
I really really really love books
Thank you for making them
God bless you
So nice of you, thanks!
What a great video, thank you for uploading this!
Glad you enjoyed it!
man im stoned rn and my eyeballs were pva glued to the screen watching this LOL, your lifestyle is awesome man keep on educating!
Lol. You’re so kind. Thanks!
Thank you for showing us the full process!
You bet!
Nice set up man. We do low run saddle stitch books on a Versafire. Always interesting to see how others get it done. Hopefully we'll all still be doing it next year lol
Interesting, I don't know much about the versafire, looks like a nice machine. I agree, hopefully still printing next year!
I'm willing to start my printing business .. You're an inspiration man
Go for it!
Pretty nice setup! I have only a half dozen years experience with the digital approach to bookbinding and about 30 years in commercial print and bindery( World Color, Quebecor, Quad, Transcontinental). I have only had about a years experience with a Bourg/Challenge setup and I have to say they are pretty user friendly.The place I worked for was only using the PUR glue and I hated it. I could never get consistant results from job to job. I have always used hot melt glues and had much better results. Not to mention the the maintenance and attention that was needed for the PUR was so time consuming. I loved the Challenge trimmer because as a commercial printer all my trimmer setups and adjustments were made manually while digital adjustments are so simple. I have to say your knowledge of paper weight, grain, coating is very good as I have worked with so many people who are running digital printers and have no idea what they are doing and don't understand grains and what leads to cracking. As a life long bindery guy, I'd follow you any day!
Thanks Dave, glad to hear that. I was interested to hear your input about PUR machines. I feel like I should consider adding PUR but I am hesitant because of the cleaning as you mentioned. EVA sure is simple.
I liked you video because you explain your job with passion. Greetings from Romania
Awesome, thank you!
informative! the laminator machine is very satisfying to watch
Yes it is!
Well this is something gorgeous you don't get to see everyday, sure those machines takes a lot of effort to handle.
Keep the good work man! :)
it can take a lot of precision and attention to detail since the machine output a standard you have to manipulate it to get what you want out of it
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!
Hi, good to see your video. I had a printing setup in India and now i am exploring the opportunity in Canada.
Thats exciting! Best of luck!
Very clear explanation and so interesting the way you explain step by step of making a book. Softwares use, type of paper, type of machine . I learned a lot from you. I hope you will be more successful in the near future !
Thanks!
Guy : always nice watching your videos. THANK YOU VERY MUCH ! from Brazil . see you .
You are welcome!
Awesome, I run a print shop down here in Africa. How can I get this laminating machine? What's the brand I should read about it
How did I get here ? Why did I stay? Why did I find it really interesting ? The only thing I can say is that it was fascinating to see the workings of an industry whose products we take for granted every day but know nothing about. Thank you for half an hour of mind-opening.
Thank you for that great comment! Glad you enjoyed it!