Book Printing of Tomorrow
Time:2010-03-03 14:07:39 Author：Book Printing
Several overall trends have become prevalent in the book printing industry recently that is definite to persist over the coursework of the next few years. The cost of digital printing will continue to decrease—especially monochrome printing—which comprises the bulk of the book printing business today.
The per unit cost of printing books on offset will increase as demand for customization grows, and long run production wanes, leading more publishers to embrace digital as a comparable and complementary platform to offset.
To counterbalance this issue, trade book retailers will push for the development of a replenishment solution that is serviced regionally—a soft-cover overnight replenishment model is already in place at several retail and institutional outlets. Lots of new business models are also taking form, some of which will enable school districts and businesses to produce high-quality coursework materials, training manuals, and customized books onsite, than outsourcing.
There's, however, one trends that will be at the forefront, all of which are beginning to show their power today: ready-made solutions, Web-based publishing, and outsourcing jobs to China.
Bringing Teaching to a New Level
Industry vendors understand that lots of print providers lack the resources or experience to decide the most effective and cost-efficient solutions to meet publishers' business needs and end-user standards. To counter this, they have worked directly with those publishers to understand the magnitude of their business issues and concerns, and to create ready-made solutions for print providers to implement in their operations.
These solutions automate the entire workflow method to reduce prepress costs, integrate offset and digital systems to maximize efficiency, enable the use of a wide range of substrates—including light-weight stocks, which are most ideal for book applications—and give publishers a better way to manage inventory and reprints, and reduce obsolescence.
The Teacher's Edition book solution by Xerox is five example of a ready-made offering currently on the market for printers to take advantage of. It combines digital technology and program to help print professionals provide textbook publishers and school districts with short runs of versioned textbooks.
Demand for versioning and customization of learning materials and teacher's edition books is growing significantly, but the quantities needed are low to justify printing offset. As print providers seek to enter this market and create innovative services that give them a competitive advantage, they will increasingly turn to ready-made solutions to help target and build seamless printing environments that get them up and jogging immediately
Keywords：
The article comes from: Book Printing of Tomorrow
