Digital Book with the technology of Giclée Printing

Beeing artists ourselves, we know how important is your book to you.

The books we produce have nothing to do with the ones produced in photo shops for general public. We carefully handmake your book one at a time and only use the best, 100% cotton papers and pigmented inks to achieve the maximum permanence.

Design process
You can assign the design of your book to ourselves, to an external graphic designer or you can do it yourself if you have the knowledge and tools to do so.

Whatever the choice, it would be wise to contact us to make clear the process to follow. You can use any software that will be useful for the design of the first sketches, but be aware that at some point in the process, your book should be placed to a professional software such as Adobe InDesign.

Will be text written?
If your book contains texts we recommend engaging the services of a linguist or philologist. GraficArtPrints only can perform spell checking of texts, with an additional charge.

While the popular Photoshop or Word programs can be useful in creating the book in its early stages, these have their limitations and for printing high resolution text, we need (again) a vector program like Adobe InDesign software.

How will be my book produced?
After completing the design process, the book is ready for printing. The process is completely manual and each paper is carefully printed on both sides, one by one.

Then, we fold these pages and make groups. These gropus are stitched them together, sewn, glued and reinforced. This book block is under the pressure of a press for 24 hours for total bonding.

Once compacted and completely dried the block of the book, we cut the paper excess to leave it in its final measure. Covers (previously prepared with the material of choice) are then glued to the book block.

At this point, your book is ready for its use. You could add your final, personal touch, appliying features as engravings, a dust jacket cover, slip case or clamp shell box.

Finished book with hard board cover

Blind engraving and silver engraving detail

Dust jacket printed on photo paper and laminated

Detail of a header ribon

Every book we produce is unique, so its price.

Anyway, to give an idea on pricing, the following example shows the costs to produce a book of 64 pages, 28x38 cm. Book design, retouching or enhacing of images is not included.

Printing
Doble printing 16 papers 100% cotton Hahnemühle PhotoRag, A2 size
240,00 €

Book binding
Fold, stich, sewing, and gluing headers to spine and cut down
90,00 €

Covers
Gluing hard board covers with the bookcloth selected to the spine, leaving the book ready for its use
60,00 €

Extras
There are several extras to add to your book as, blind engravings, gold or silver engravings, printing a dust jacket with photo paper and laminating, building a slimcase or clampshell box with the same cover bookcloth selected...
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