Would you like to print your book? Contact Us
We understand the creative effort that goes into writing and we're proud to help you turn your work into high a high quality book. Here are three options for getting started.
Option
1. Talk to our book consultant.
If you'd
like personal service and to discuss your project with us you can make
an appointment with Joanna Cairns or Nelson Hubber. Phone
03 366 7731. Email books@digitalprint.co.nz - Or visit us at our premises, 87 Byron Street, (Cnr Byron and Brisbane) Sydenham, Christchurch.
Option
2. See our "Printabook" web site
If you'd
like the most economical price for printing from print ready files, can't visit us or live in another part
of New Zealand try our online service at www.printabook.co.nz There is an online price estimator and a quote request form at the printabook web site.
Option 3. Use our free software to create photo books
We have a unique system that provides you with free design and layout software to make photo books. See www.photobook.co.nz
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Free Information Book
Our free 75 page book on self publishing and preparing books for printing is now available . Send
for a free copy
Provide your address and we'll post it to you.
Phone 03 366 7731
Email books@digitalprint.co.nz |
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Examples
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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, family
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. |
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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. |
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SRA5
Gloss Laminated Cover
This
328 page book has both colour and black and white
pages. It is printed on a higher quality 100 gsm paper.
The cover is laminated and the finished size is approximately
159mm x 223mm. |
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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. |
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Traditional
Hard Cover Book.
This
particular book is A5 size but it can be made in A4
and non standard sizes. Used
in this case for a collection of poems and prose of
personal importance to a family. Covered in traditional
linen or Buckram. |
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Non-standard
size book with hard cover and dust jacket.
We
like this book. It is 225mm square and has black and white pictures on high quality paper.
A feature of its success is the care and attention
given to its design by the author. |
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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 real craftsmanship.
The binding is done by hand so expect a high price. |
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Your
Books Can Be Printed - Now!! Any number you need. |
General
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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
- 100
gsm paper
- 115gsm picture quality paper
- 80
gsm Munken Cream paper (older style 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.
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Binding Methods
Three common
binding methods shown here are, from top to bottom, perfect binding,
wire binding and hard cover case binding. |
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Colour
or Black and White Pages
Colour is more expensive than black and white but it can be printed on any page within a book. These no longer need to be grouped together as was sometimes the case in the past. Images that are printed right to the edge a page 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.
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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. We recommend you contact us and once
we have the details of what you require we will provide a quotation or alternatively you can see our online book price estimator at www.printabook.co.nz
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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.
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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. |
