[B-Greek] [OT] Printing Old Books

Robert Stump robertstump at gmail.com
Mon Apr 11 19:48:59 EDT 2011


Andrew-

I  work at a little print shop and, to my wife chagrin, have printed
hundreds and hundreds of books from Google Books, archive.org,
Gutenburg, etc. The way that I print them is so that the pages are two
up on a sheet, and that the sheets are two sided (with rotation).  I
print covers on heavy weight stock then use over-sized staples to bind
the books (generally I cover the staples with labels that I cut to
give it a look more like a bond book, but this is unnecessary).  The
purpose of the second side being printed with rotation (any printer
should know what this means) is so that when you open it you can hold
the book sideways and sort of like a newspaper. The page go in order
then top left, top right, bottom left, bottom right.  I have uploaded
images of the final product so you can see what I mean. I have also
included one that was flipped without rotation which gives the four
pages a longer horizontal layout instead of boxed like the other.

A four hundred page book would run between 6-8 dollars if you did the
bindery yourself. If you want to make some books this way I can go
more into detail about the actual print settings and so forth, but I
imagine that should be off-list unless its ok'd.

Hope this is helpful.

Robert Stump
Orlando, FL
Seminarian

Finished trimmed books: http://img41.imageshack.us/i/dscf7574z.jpg/

Flipped with rotation: http://img812.imageshack.us/i/dscf7575.jpg/

Flipped without rotation: http://img151.imageshack.us/i/dscf7576o.jpg/

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Andrew Suttles
<andrew.suttles at gmail.com> wrote:
> I apologize in advance if this is off topic for the list...
>
> Would anyone have experience with printing old digitally stored books?  I've
> found a lot of useful old books scanned into PDF at Google books and I'm
> wondering about the cost of getting some of them printed.  For example, if I
> were to save, for example, Bloomfield's Greek New Testament on a flash drive
> and take it to my local print shop or Kinkos, could they print it and bind
> it for me for a reasonable price?  Is there an online service that anyone
> might recommend that does this type of thing?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrew
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