We can offer you two options to have your books printed.

Option 1. Visit Us

We will be happy to give you advice on the printing of your book and if you'd like personal service and to discuss your project with us you can make an appointment with Jessica Riley or Nelson Hubber. Phone 03 366 7731. Email books@digitalprint.co.nz - Visit us at our premises, 65 Victoria Street, Christchurch.

Option 2. Do it all over the Internet

If you'd like the most economical price, can't visit us or live in another part of New Zealand try our online service at www.printabook.co.nz To use this service you will need to provide .pdf files but it is a simple and efficient way to have your books printed. Please note that not all the book styles shown on this page are available at www.printabook.co.nz.

Free booklet, especially relevant for those new to printing books

Types of Books

A5 Size Soft Cover This vibrant example is of an A5 size perfect bound book. Typical of the size and style used for stories, instructional and commercial books. Covers are normally printed on 280gsm light card, internal pages can be colour or black and white. The cover of this particular book is not laminated. Finished size is approximately 148mm x 207mm.

SRA5 Gloss Laminated Cover This 328 page book has both colour and black and white pages. It is printed on a higher quality 90gsm paper. The cover is laminated and the finished size is approximately 159mm x 223mm.

A4 Size Matte Laminated Cover This 420 page edition is in a larger format which is suitable when there are lots of pictures, historical documents and maps to be shown on the pages. The cover of this book has been matte laminated. The finished size is approximately 210mm x 293mm.

A4 Landscape Book This book was printed on a high quality continuous tone digital machine, the best option because of the many pictures it contains. Covers of these landscape books require printing on 600mm long sheets. The finished size is approx. 210 x 293mm.

Non-standard size book with hard cover and dust jacket We like this book. It measures 225mm square and has good looking black and white pictures on high quality paper. A feature of it's success is the care and attention that's been put into its design by the author.

Traditional Hard Cover Book. This particular book is A5 size but it can be done in A4 and non standard sizes. Particularly suitable as used in this case for a collection of poems and prose of personal importance to a family. Covered in traditional linen or Buckram

Quarter Bound Book Featuring real leather on the spine and corners with a gold crest and title on the cover this book is hard to beat if you're looking for the image or real craftsmanship. The binding is done by hand so expect a high price.

General Information

Proofs and Guarantee

Our book customers are always provided with proof copies and we guarantee that the books in the print run will be up to the same standard in every way as the proofs. With some types of books, such as hard cover case bound ones, it may not always be possible to provide proofs that are exactly the same as the final print run, but we will discuss this with you.

All of our printing is undertaken on the basis that you must be happy with the result or the books can be returned with the option of reprinting or your payment refunded.

Papers

We have other options but by far the most common papers that we use for books are;

• 80 gsm standard paper
• 90 gsm better quality
• 100 gsm better quality
• 100 gsm best quality acid free
• 80 gsm Munken Cream paper (older style look)
• 100 gsm Munken Pure paper (also older style cream look)

Laminated covers

Our colour printed covers do have durability of their own without being laminated but for that extra bit of protection and to enhance the look we provide both gloss and matte lamination when required.

Binding Methods Three common binding methods shown here are, from top to bottom, perfect binding, wire binding and hard cover case binding.

Colour or Black and White Pages

Black and white printing is undertaken on any one of three different machines depending on the appropriate quality and cost options. If a book has a lot of photos and high quality is required then the more expensive option will be recommended. In some instances savings can be made by grouping pictures together. Colour images are printed on either one of two machines. The per page price of colour can be about six times that of black and white. Images that are printed right to the edge will cost a little more and in some cases may reduce the dimensions that the book can be finished to.

Booklets

The term booklet refers to a "book" that has been folded and stapled and not bound with a "square flat" spine. Booklets are cheaper because of the reduced binding cost. They are limited to about 80 pages in size as thicker booklets are difficult to fold. Perfect binding is the better option for thicker books.

Prices

Prices for books vary depending on quite a few factors including the type of paper, lamination of the cover, binding, colour pages and the number being printed. For this reason we recommend you contact us and once we have the details of what you require we will provide a quotation.

A Customer Comments

"We have been a customer of Microfilm Digital Print for several years, and have always been very pleased with their standard of workmanship. Whilst formerly we used several printers, we have had by far the best results from this company so that nowadays we refer all of our new work to them" - Robin Mitchell, Partner, Cadsonbury Publications.

Note: Our definition of a page in a book is; the side of a leaf of paper. A leaf has a page on each side, printed or blank. And leaves? They are the sheets of paper in the book.