Book People Archive

Re: Offtopic - Printing Digital Texts

Here is the URL for a web site that promotes do it yourself publishing.

http://www.gigabooks.net/

I have a copy of the book and have tried perfect binding a few books. I must say
without much success. If other people try it perhaps we can have a discussion
about the best type of glue to use.

Rod Hay

Eric Eldred wrote:

> See the book:
>
> "Book-on-Demand Publishing"
> by Rupert Evans
> "Learn how to print and bind your own books from one to 1,000!:
> A Flash How-To Book,"
> ISBN 1-881576-02-1
> BlackLightning Publishing
> Riddle Pond Road
> West Topsham, VT 05086
> +1 800 252 2599
>
> Now that HP has come out with an affordable
> duplex printer, the 2200, and now that my
> old HP IIIP has died, I may try out the
> ideas in the book once I raise $700.
>
> A cheap guillotine paper cutter would also
> be good.
>
> On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 08:20:14PM -0400, NakedWord@[redacted] wrote:
> > On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Jonathan Bartlett <johnnyb@[redacted]> wrote:
> > > I was wondering if anyone knew of any small-run presses, where you can
> > > send them a Postscript file and they would make a batch of books
> > > (<1000). This would be really useful for printing e-texts for classes and
> > > such. Does anyone have a list of small-run presses like that?