Shopping around for a printer takes a lot of effort. It helps to understand what the printing company is talking about. Gianluca Glazer, former Director of Marketing at Radical Publishing, offers some insight on paper stock and the language professional printing companies use.
For example, pound stock of paper for one printer may be different from pound stock from another printer because they use different qualities of paper. Most, if not all printers, will send you a sample of the books they have printed and you can determine what you want. The key is to make sure the paper is thick enough to avoid any watermark like ripples in the paper caused by the ink.
All paper should have a gloss to it and you can either do a self-cover or plus cover for the book. A self-cover uses the same stock as the interior page and a page book would have 28 pages of interior and 4 pages that comprise the cover, inside front cover, inside back cover and back cover.
A 32 page plus cover is 32 interior pages plus a cover page usually a thicker almost card stock weight used to comprise the cover, inside front cover, inside back cover and back cover. A number of comics use plus cover though not as many as self. The easiest way to tell is to count the interior pages. Dave Sims who self-published issues of Cerebus knows a bit about self-publishing, his advice on finding a printer may help.
Provide them with a copy of a black-and-white comic with color covers and ask how much they would charge to print 2,, 2,, 3,, etc. Expect the quotes to vary from around 40 cents to 2 dollars a copy. Let them know that the cover stock and interior paper do not have to be exactly the same and that you are concerned about keeping the cost per unit down.
The difference in price will depend on what the printer specializes in. If they do mostly newspapers and advertising supplements, it will be just another job. It they do mostly coffee-table-style art books and labels and promotions for Coca Cola, Exxon or other multinational corporations, your job is going to be too small and it will cost you. Offset, is the traditional process for printing comics, it uses giant professional printing presses, and is great when it comes to the price you pay per book.
If you are going to have thousands of books printed, then offset printing is the way to go. If you want to print books, traditional offset printing is probably not for you. Think of it this way, printing books on a tradition press will take five minutes. Toner Printing think laser printer On-Demand-Printing. On-demand-printing uses industrial laser color copy machines. Printers use the term self-cover to describe a comic book or other booklet that uses the same type of paper for the cover as for the rest of the book.
Standard size comic books sometimes have a self-cover, but this is not standard for perfect binding. At Comix Well Spring, our standard saddle stitch cover paper options are 80 gloss and self-cover. We also offer upgrades to 80 matte cardstock for sketch covers or glossy covers. Square bound books are available with 80 gloss, U. These three options are professional-looking and display your hard work beautifully. The default paper option for both single-issue comic books and square bound graphic novels is 60 paper.
However, both graphic novels and comic books may elect to use 70 paper for black and white or 80 glossy for full color print. Longer graphic novels may take both cost and paper thickness into account when deciding on paper type.
A page graphic novel on 80 glossy paper will be much thicker and somewhat more expensive than the same novel printed on 60 paper, so most artists creating that long of a work will stick with the cheaper option. Some copy paper for at-home or office use is just 20 , making it much more susceptible to wear and tear.
Professional-quality 60 or heavier printer paper is the best option for creating a self-published comic that looks how the creator intended. Printing images is a slightly different matter than printing plain text, and even slight differences in paper quality or printing techniques can make your comic look less than perfect. No matter what paper you decide on, you deserve a high-quality product that makes your readers happy.
But with your expectation that this Bleed area could and will be cut off. For example, if you have a beautiful landscape going across the full width of the page, you would want to make this this landscape continued into the Bleed area. On the inside of the Trim line is the Quiet Area. Secondly, and this is the most important reason, it ensure that you do not put anything important from your artwork too close to the page edge.
Text, for example, should never go into the Quiet Area. The same goes for any important artwork details. All images should be at least dpi or higher, as anything below this may appear low resolution. All files should be supplied in CMYK colour. This is because RGB colour files will be converted to CMYK colours for the printing machines, which can result in some colour variations. As we mentioned earlier, there are a number of pitfalls in printing.
Not just with setting up your print file, but also in your choice of paper types, paper weights, adding a cover and applying a laminated finish to your cover. Now is not the time for being frugal! You need to make sure you put the same love, effort and dedication into your paper, binding and finishes as you did your story and artwork. Always give your comic a proper cover. There are a variety of paper types to choose from.
Typically you would choose a paper type based on artistic expression. For example, Lorenzo Etherington used uncoated paper in his Art of Stranski books. This really suits his vintage artwork, giving the paper a slightly rough feel and his artwork a slightly faded colour. Gloss paper is really shiny! Normally this is used in printing for hi res photo books. But if you want your artwork to have high saturation colours and be really striking.
This is why some people like to use Gloss paper for their covers with a Gloss lamination to be extra shiny and high contrasts to stand out on the shelf. You can go as low at 80gsm or as high as gsm. Generally people tend to choose the same cover paper type as their page paper type.
Cover papers are much thicker than page papers and vary between gsm and gsm. It depends on the paper you chose for your pages. A comic with gsm pages and a gsm cover will do the job quite nicely. Or a comic with gsm pages and a gsm cover should be fine. The thicker the cover, the more effort it takes to open if you have a low page count.
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