cthornhill
September 12th, 2003, 07:13 AM
In my continuing efforts to put everyone to sleep - more on my book production project!
I got my first proofs back from the binder yesterday, and the results were great. I knew that ExactBind can produce excellent custom covered hard bound and softbound volumes, but we were still experamenting on form factor and two page spreds on photo papers.
Well, we have a few improvements to make, but overall the first test results are good enough to show customers and peers. For anyone planning or interested in creating a high quality bound volume, this approach does work. Our results are not yet equal to those of the high end book albums, but are very close. With a few refinements in glue application and end paper selection, I think we will achieve almost identical results to the $500 - 1,000 cost book albums for about $50 - $100 per volume.
My goal is to be able to offer consumer (portrait and wedding) customers, and commercial (advertising and marketing) customers book style output where reprint costs are low enough to create and fill demand. There is nothing wrong with the product of the high end companies, but given their costs structure to the photographer, the market is much more limited for the results. Given lower costs, I hope to have good margins and returns, and still hit more volume oriented price points.
For anyone looking to present their work this is also a great alternative. Let me know if anyone is interested in ink and paper choice issues, or binding information.
Cecil
I got my first proofs back from the binder yesterday, and the results were great. I knew that ExactBind can produce excellent custom covered hard bound and softbound volumes, but we were still experamenting on form factor and two page spreds on photo papers.
Well, we have a few improvements to make, but overall the first test results are good enough to show customers and peers. For anyone planning or interested in creating a high quality bound volume, this approach does work. Our results are not yet equal to those of the high end book albums, but are very close. With a few refinements in glue application and end paper selection, I think we will achieve almost identical results to the $500 - 1,000 cost book albums for about $50 - $100 per volume.
My goal is to be able to offer consumer (portrait and wedding) customers, and commercial (advertising and marketing) customers book style output where reprint costs are low enough to create and fill demand. There is nothing wrong with the product of the high end companies, but given their costs structure to the photographer, the market is much more limited for the results. Given lower costs, I hope to have good margins and returns, and still hit more volume oriented price points.
For anyone looking to present their work this is also a great alternative. Let me know if anyone is interested in ink and paper choice issues, or binding information.
Cecil