I've been putting together a colleciton for Wikijunior:Colors[1], and I remembered that the printed books don't come in color. That's a shame, because this is a charming little book for kids that relies pretty heavily on colored pages. What are the chances that we could get some kind of "color option" for printing the books? How much would that affect the price?
[1] http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikijunior:Colors
--Andrew Whitworth
Unfortunately this option is not available for the transient print technology offered by the printing company we are working with - and I don´t know of any other supporting it either. I can ask them whether they plan to offer this feature.
But I doubt that people would choose that option since color printing is expensive and book cost would increase by a factor of 3 .
Heiko
On Nov 8, 2008, at 3:05 AM, Andrew Whitworth wrote:
I've been putting together a colleciton for Wikijunior:Colors[1], and I remembered that the printed books don't come in color. That's a shame, because this is a charming little book for kids that relies pretty heavily on colored pages. What are the chances that we could get some kind of "color option" for printing the books? How much would that affect the price?
Heiko Hees wrote:
Unfortunately this option is not available for the transient print technology offered by the printing company we are working with - and I don´t know of any other supporting it either. I can ask them whether they plan to offer this feature.
But I doubt that people would choose that option since color printing is expensive and book cost would increase by a factor of 3 .
Lulu offers color printing, but as you say, the cost increases by a factor of three or so. It ain't cheap!
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 8:31 AM, j.w. thomas jthomas@bittware.com wrote:
Heiko Hees wrote:
Unfortunately this option is not available for the transient print technology offered by the printing company we are working with - and I don´t know of any other supporting it either. I can ask them whether they plan to offer this feature.
But I doubt that people would choose that option since color printing is expensive and book cost would increase by a factor of 3 .
Lulu offers color printing, but as you say, the cost increases by a factor of three or so. It ain't cheap!
That's a good piece of information, thanks Jim! I would generally like to stay with PediaPress and their publisher because we have a good working relationship with them. However, for some individual books, having a second option with color printing capabilities is certainly very handy.
What I need to figure out is whether we can get the print-ready PDF files that PediaPress generates for it's publisher, get them in color, and send them to a place like Lulu for printing in color. Certainly very interesting.
--Andrew Whitworth
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