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Now, more and more authors select to self-publish their book. But because of many authors have no self-publish experience. So when they find a optimal book printing maker to print their book, they don't know how to get a quotation quickly. Combining my years of printing experience, I sum up 6 tips for quick quotes on book printing.

 
1. Number of printed pages. 

Before finding the optimal book printing makers to give you a quotation, you need to know how many pages in your book. This is very important. If you don't know how many pages you want to want to print, no book printing makers can give you a simple quote.

2. The printing size.

What size do you want? Before printing makers give you a quote, they often ask you about this problem. This is because of different size, the price will be different. The size more large, the price will be more expensive.

3. Color printing or not.

 The coloring printing is depends on what type of book is. If your book is a novel and without too many pictures, choosing black and white printing will be cheaper. But if you choose custom coloring book printing, the price will be higher than black and white printing. But if you custom photo book, we often use four color printing. Because color printing makes the pictures look more beautiful and attractive.

4. The quantity of printing.

How many you want to print is also very important. No matter what kind of products or which printing maker, you print more, and the price is lower. The same, the lower the number of prints, the higher the price.

5. Use which material to print.

The raw materials are different, the price and printing quality are different. Even the same gram weight(referring to the thickness of the paper). The printing effect will be very different because of different quality. Different brands of paper have different prices. Of course, the gloss, smoothness, and ink absorption of different quality papers, the printing effect will be big different. So when you select the paper to print your project, you do better to learn about the printing papers in advance. My previous article had discussed how to choose the paper for your printing project? You also can read this article to learn some knowledge of printing paper.

6. Binding method.

Custom a beautiful book not only needs good content, unique layout design. But also needs a suitable binding method. Because a suitable binding method is convenient for readers, to read and can add a touch of beauty. The binding methods we often use are: saddle stitch, perfect bound, spiral bound, sewing hardcover. Such as saddle stitch suitable for books under 32 pages. Sewing hardcover is suitable for hardcover book binding. Different style of books, the binding method will be different. The more complex the binding, the price is more expensive. You also can ask the book printing company which binding style is suitable for your book.

When we print a book, how to choose paper for printing? The quality of books depends on the choice of paper. Different paper, the quality and cost to print a book is different. So different book printing services, the choice of paper is also different.

1.For the cover or illustration hardcover book printing, catalog printing, posters printing. We often use coated paper for such printing. Coated paper, also known as printing coated paper. Coated paper is made by coating a layer of white slurry on the base paper and calendering. The surface of the paper is smooth, the whiteness is high, the elasticity is small. More important,the absorption and reception of the ink are very good. After color printing, the pattern effect is bright and color gradation is very good. Thus,coated paper is suitable for custom hardcover books,catalogs,and posters.

2.For the inner page of photo album,brochure, hardcover book printing. Most of printing house will use the offset paper to print such of books. The surface of the offset paper is not coated with pulp. Although the gloss and smoothness are worse than those of the coated paper. But Offset paper has low flexibility, uniform ink absorption, good smoothness. Tight and opaque texture, good whiteness, and strong water resistance. So use the offset paper for such books printing,the quality is very good.

3.For the magazine printing, often use the coated paper and matt art paper. Due to these two type of paper is very smooth and reception of the ink is very good. The patterns use these paper to print is very beautiful and realized. So the magazine printing often use these two types of paper.

4.For the children's board book printing. Compared to other paper,coated paper is more suitable. Because use coated paper to custom board book is not easy to torn by the children. And the pictures printed on this paper is very beautiful. It is much easier to attract children to read. For young children,who are just beginning to read, the books they read are almost board books.

5.For the notebook printing,often use offset paper. Because the offset paper has small elasticity, uniform ink absorption, good smoothness. It is easy to write and alter. so it is more suitable for note book printing.

In short, different printing services,the needs of paper is different. Chinaprinting4u provides various of printing service. No matter what kind of printing service you want, we can meet your needs. Contact us to get a quote now.

Self-publish a recipe book,it looks very easy. In fact, make a recipe book and let it sell well is very hard.It is affected by many factors.So how to make a bestseller recipe book?

Check out below introductions to find out the answer. 

Eye-catching cover. A cookbook which most important part is the cover. When the buyers select the cookbook,his first eye is the book cover. If the cover can’t attract their attention,they will not open it and give it up. So custom a best-selling recipe book, the cover must catch the buyer's attention. When your book cover enough to grab the buyer's attention,they will stopping at your book and keep to read it. That means,most of buyers will choose to buy your cookbook.

2. The selection of inner paper. At present,most of self-publishers will choose coated paper and matte paper to custom recipe book. Why not use offset paper? This is because offset paper touch very suitable,but the color is a bit gloomy. The pattern is printed on the coated paper or matte paper is very realized. Under the bright color rendering, it seems that the food is ready to come out. On the other hand,coated paper and matte paper is very solid and smooth. When the buyers read it is not easy to damage and cut the hand.

3. The printing process. Custom a bestseller recipe book,printing proceed is also a big problem. If the recipe book printing use matte lamination,it looks very high-end. But is not hot sale at the recipe book market. Because the recipe book is used at the kitchen. Matte lamination may suffer from water stains, scratches. It will have a bad influence in the heart of users. And most of people prefer bright film. So if your recipe book use bright film,which will be more popular in the recipe book market.

4. The font size of custom best-selling recipe book. Considering that the people who use the recipe book are all standing in the kitchen to read. The font size needs to be as large as possible. This way readers don't have to think about bending over to read while cooking.

5. The binding of custom recipe book. Based on my years of recipe book printing experience. I found that most of hot sale recipe book often use glue with sewing hardcover. So that the book can be perfectly opened and placed at all angles. It is convenient for readers to read at any time and any where. Even at the kitchen,it doesn't need anything to assist, it is easy to placed flat on the table. To free the reader's hands and focus on cooking.

6. Custom a beautiful bookmark. For the convenience of readers to read and record, a best-selling recipe book often customizes a beautiful bookmark.

7. Attractive and beautiful pictures. Beautiful and attractive images catch the reader's eye more than words. So when you custom a recipe book and hope it hot sale,must be sure to work hard on the pictures. If you don't have the professional designer and photographer. You do better find a professional design team to do that.

8.Cooperate with a professional printing house.This is very important. Because it is related to the quality of your recipe book printing. If the quality is not good,then the recipe book can't sales well.Recipe book printing is in our DNA. Chinaprinting4u have more than 20 years of experience in book printing industry. No matter what types of books you want to make,we can meet your needs. We had been help thousands of clients custom their recipe book. Due to high-quality, their book sold well at the local market and overseas market. If you want to custom a high-quality recipe book and want it sales well,why not choose us?

Custom posters are a way for businesses to promote their company. They print most of the posters in single-sided monochrome or single-sided four-color printing. Fabric poster printing and paper poster printing are very common in promotional activity. Because of the wide range of publicity, high intensity and low cost. Printing posters are one of the most effective publicity methods at present. Such poster can achieve promotional effect also can’t lack good design.

Good design poster not only can effectively promote company image. But also can better show the company's products and services to the consumer. Only good design of poster can explain the function, purpose and advantages of the product detail. Interpret the cultural concept of the enterprise and bring good sales to the enterprise.

Why more and more company choose custom poster to promote their company?

Because printing posters only need low cost but can achieve the effect of wide dissemination. It plays a very important role in the sales of company. So target poster printing is very popular in recent years.

The most important reason why posters are so popular is the design of posters. Poster design is the main thing, while poster printing is secondary. Only good-looking and creative posters can print influential posters to attract consumers. But, you must have these three points of awareness when designing posters. So that you can design and produce a satisfactory poster. Let's take a look at it in detail!

1. The poster design must conform to the aesthetic standards of the consumers.

With the improvement of people's living standards, everyone has their own aesthetic standards. The main purpose of poster printing design is for consumers. Thus, after we design the poster , it must be accepted by the consumers. If consumers are not interested in it, it is hard to pay attention to the content of the poster printing.

2. Poster printing design should have good creativity

Posters are often promoted with pictures. You must be creative in the design of pictures and posters. The most important thing is to give everyone a refreshing feeling. Creative poster design can improve the grade of posters. Only printing such posters. It can attract everyone's attention and make it easy for people to accept the content of the poster.

3. Poster printing design should pay attention to the application of color

No matter print what type of poster, you must make good use of color when designing. Express the theme of the poster printing through the appropriate color. So that can attract everyone's attention.

Through the above three points, we can clear to know the importance of poster design. Only good design can best custom poster printing. And only optimal print poster can have a good publicity effect. Then bring sales profits to the company.