jakeknotts
Member
I am new on here and would appreciate some feedback.
I run a small non-profit publishing house in Eastern Europe (Ukraine) and am quickly realizing that digital publishing is where we need to go. We plan on printing up to ten titles next year, usually print between 2,000 - 5,000 copies, and have all of our cash tied up in offset printing.
I would like to move towards printing digitally, printing 100-200 titles at a time, and expand our number of books printed each year.
I would also like to move towards a more long-term sustainable model by taking some orders from other small publishers who like us would no like to be printing offset.
A publishing friend recently switched from offset to digital and is printing with a risograph but I am very unimpressed with the quality.
Having read through PrintPlanet's forums, I am learning but still very new and green and would like to hear what some of you think as far as moving towards obtaining equipment to print ourselves.
I would like to in the beginning have color covers printed by local printers and just be printing the body of B&W books. I need to get a printer, a binder, and a guillotine, from what I understand.
What equipment would you recommend I look into purchasing to try and get set up for around $40,000? Is it even possible? If I buy used equipment could I fit into this price range?
KM?
Xerox 4112?
Binding solutions?
What would it cost to get a reliable guillotine that could cut sheets 64cm wide?
I understand this is super broad, but any info would be appreciated so we can research more and move in this direction.
I run a small non-profit publishing house in Eastern Europe (Ukraine) and am quickly realizing that digital publishing is where we need to go. We plan on printing up to ten titles next year, usually print between 2,000 - 5,000 copies, and have all of our cash tied up in offset printing.
I would like to move towards printing digitally, printing 100-200 titles at a time, and expand our number of books printed each year.
I would also like to move towards a more long-term sustainable model by taking some orders from other small publishers who like us would no like to be printing offset.
A publishing friend recently switched from offset to digital and is printing with a risograph but I am very unimpressed with the quality.
Having read through PrintPlanet's forums, I am learning but still very new and green and would like to hear what some of you think as far as moving towards obtaining equipment to print ourselves.
I would like to in the beginning have color covers printed by local printers and just be printing the body of B&W books. I need to get a printer, a binder, and a guillotine, from what I understand.
What equipment would you recommend I look into purchasing to try and get set up for around $40,000? Is it even possible? If I buy used equipment could I fit into this price range?
KM?
Xerox 4112?
Binding solutions?
What would it cost to get a reliable guillotine that could cut sheets 64cm wide?
I understand this is super broad, but any info would be appreciated so we can research more and move in this direction.
