On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:47:20PM -0800, Doug Berry wrote:
> Hey Community,
>
> Sorry I did not get back sooner. My friend at
> LSI called my cell phone -- I was waiting for
> an email. Did not check my messages until today.
>
> The gist of what she said is that we can indeed
> do a hard cover full color book, but we would
> have to do so using off-set printing.
>
> And she could not give a cost estimate, because
> the cost would depend on how much color and the
> degree of difficulty for the printer in setting
> up the book.
>
> Off-set would probably create a much better
> looking book, as far as image quality goes.
> It is the industry standard for printing high
> quality books.
>
> But using off-set, each color page would
> require that four separate plates would have
> to be made to produce a color image. Blue, red,
> yellow, and black is the way they used to describe
> it, but now it is CMYK (short for cyan, magenta,
> yellow, and key (black) We could, however, use
> a mixture of b&w and color pages. Then we would pay
> less for the b&w pages that don't have color on them.
>
> Still, since we are not driven to make a
> huge profit off of each book, we could adjust
> the book price to allow for the additional
> printing costs.
>