Start With What You Are Making
These short guides explain the language of print and publishing. Use them to prepare a brief, compare options and understand a quotation. Availability and specifications are confirmed for each commissioned job.
Follow Your Own Route
You can move from print method to colour, paper, finishing and binding, or begin with editorial work and the stages of publishing. Software notes are grouped separately for readers working directly with production files.
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Printing Methods: Digital & Offset
Match the process to the project.
Paper: Weight, Stock & Surface
Choose the feel as well as the figure.
Finishing & Lamination
The final surface changes the experience.
Binding
How the pages open matters.
Colour: CMYK, RGB & Spot
Screen colour and printed colour are different experiences.
Editing & Co-authoring: Levels of Support
Name the work before you commission it.
Images & Artwork Files
Start with the best source you have.
Publishing: Stages, Costs & Options
Plan the stages before pricing the whole book.
Where Your Printing Is Produced
Compare the complete route to the reader.
Shipping & Delivery Explained
Separate production time from travel time.
Typesetting: Type, Layout & Terminology
A small vocabulary for a better page.
Software & Production Tools
Useful tools, applied with care.