{"id":528,"date":"2015-11-27T16:38:36","date_gmt":"2015-11-27T16:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/?page_id=528"},"modified":"2015-11-27T16:38:36","modified_gmt":"2015-11-27T16:38:36","slug":"3-another-cost-effective-approach-to-self-publishing-home-printing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/3-another-cost-effective-approach-to-self-publishing-home-printing\/","title":{"rendered":"3. Another Cost-Effective Approach to Self-Publishing: Home-Printing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Home-Printing vs Commercial Printing of your Self-Published Book<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/span><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n
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If you are producing a predominantly black & white book of about 20 pages, then home-printing <\/i><\/b>using a home computer-based printer (inkjet or laser) can be the most cost-effective solution for your self-publishing needs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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If you need a few color photos\/pages, then you could print all the photos onto a couple of full-color pages and then insert them into the center\/front\/or back of your book.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Or you could have a full-color cover printed (front and back) that has your colored images.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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However, maintaining a printer (buying ink or cartridges, drums) can monetarily add up quite quickly.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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I have gone this route quite extensively in producing classroom handouts for my teaching purposes. In the future I may add a chapter to this thesis about the process. But for now this document will focus on how to get a book published that requires printing beyond what my home printing system could cost-effectively provide.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

My book required full-color pages and contained a larger number of pages (Book 1 = 66 pages). The cost of supplies and upkeep for my color-laser printer was too great to allow use of this printing option. It also requires a large amount to time to print and bind a book this way. This amount of time also was not cost-effective to me since I have a full-time job and book production is a hobby for me at this time in my life.<\/div>\n
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When researching for this book, I realized that a great number of published tatting books are:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00b7<\/span>Self-published<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00b7<\/span>Home-printer or copier printed<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00b7<\/span>Comb or spiral bound\u2014inexpensive options for ‘doing it yourself’.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00b7<\/span>Do not have an ISBN number<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Note regarding need for ISBN number<\/span>: Due to the niche-market nature of tatting\/lacemaking books, most authors realize that their books are probably not going to be mass marketed in such places as Barnes & Nobles. Most tatting books are wholesaled and sold through Handy Hands (Barbara Foster). She does not require that a book have an ISBN number and sells it effectively without one. Thus, if you are home-printing your book, you can get away with not having\/buying an ISBN. You are still the publisher and author and all rights remain with you.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Home-Printing vs Commercial Printing of your Self-Published Book If you are producing a predominantly black & white book of about 20 pages, then home-printing using a home computer-based printer (inkjet or laser) can be the most cost-effective solution for your self-publishing needs. If you need a few color photos\/pages, then you could print all the … Continue reading 3. Another Cost-Effective Approach to Self-Publishing: Home-Printing<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-528","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1986,"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/528\/revisions\/1986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivalarchitecture.com\/shuttlesmithblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}