Talking about how prepress design can reduce the cost of books

How to reduce the cost of books is a matter of concern to each of our publishing workers. As a printing staff, we should be skilled in mastering platemaking, printing processes, and the price standards for printing books and magazines, understanding the performance of paper specifications, and the production capabilities of the various printing factories. In the printing work, according to the production capacity of the printing plant, the plate printing process and the selection of paper materials should be reasonably arranged to reduce the cost of the book.

Every book you do needs to be designed by the designer. Designers must design based on content, nature, total amount of text, and readers. The cost of books is an important factor in the competition in the book market. Let's talk about how to reduce the cost of books from the perspective of prepress design.

1, paper opening

If the selection of materials is unreasonable, the margin will increase and the effective use of paper will decrease. Books with more short lines, such as horizontal poetry, use 32 copies, which have a lot of gaps in their cuts and openings, and use more paper. If you use a 36-inch long format, you can save paper. If the cost is too small, the number of folds and light edge materials are also more. In order to facilitate the printing, as far as possible without or with less irregular copy, this can reduce the cost of printing.

2. Book pages

When working together, try to avoid zero pages. Because a book is not only positive, but also other parts such as four seals, title page, sequence, directory, copyright page, etc., and may be different for each part of the paper, the total number of paper with the same paper type make up The multiple of 4 is not difficult.

3, frame material

When selecting hard cover materials, the use of leather, cotton, hemp, silk, wool and other fabrics should be controlled. Use tough paper, paint paper or lacquer, etc. as much as possible. In addition to special needs, try to avoid using real gold foil. Hot stamping materials can be replaced with anodized aluminum or color chips to reduce the cost of the book.

4, printing process

For general 32- or 16-open single- and bi-color books, the number of prints is more than 50,000 copies, and the printer is usually arranged for printing. Because the speed of the rotary machine is fast and the printed pages have been folded, the printing costs are lower than those of the flatbed printer.

For books under 50,000 volumes, lead lines can be printed by large automatic, small automatic, or eight-page machines; laser image lines can be printed by a B-B double-sided offset printing machine, which is a printing machine that prints books and magazines. Calculate the printing fee; or use 01, 08 type monochrome offset press printing, this type of offset printing press is a single-sided printing press, according to the color order to calculate the printing fee.

Using a B-B offset press is faster than a monochrome offset press and the printing cost is low. For the picture book with high quality requirements, two-color or four-color offset printing machines should be used as far as possible; for large-scale, such as New Year pictures, front and back ring linings of books, etc., a single-color offset printing machine should be used for printing, and the printing quality is better.

The printing staff should understand the performance of various printing presses and the calculation standards of the wages. Otherwise, they may use unreasonable printing processes with high costs, which will result in a decline in the quality of books and increase in costs.