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If you’re looking for a booklet printing company, you’ve come to the right place. We’ve got high-quality, low-price booklet printing options in two sizes: 5.5 x 8.5-inch, or 8.5 x 11-inch. Our color booklet printing is top-notch.
Your custom printed booklet comes on your choice of 28-lb. or 32-lb. color copy stock, and is printed on our High Quality Konica Minolta printer to help you save cash. (We can also add a 10pt glossy color cover.)
We can have your project back to you in 3-5 business days after we get your approval (Same-Day or Next-Day Service also available). In short, we’re the booklet maker you’re looking for.
Make your own booklet using our online design tools – you'll find we've got plenty of online booklet design options. Or, you can upload or email your design to workflow@hhimaging.com.
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“I could not be happier with the quality of H&H’s printing, the helpfulness of the staff, and the low price. I would recommend H&H without reservation, I have never had such excellent service at a print shop before, nor have I ever spent this little for such beautiful prints. Go get a test print done. I will certainly be using H&H for all of my future printing needs.” – Gabrielle P.
More General Info On Printing
Across the world, over 45 trillion pages (2005 figure) are printed annually. In 2006 there were approximately 30,700 printing companies in the United States, accounting for $112 billion, according to the 2006 U.S. Industry & Market Outlook by Barnes Reports. Print jobs that move through the Internet made up 12.5% of the total U.S. printing market last year, according to research firm InfoTrend/CAP Ventures.
Offset printing is a widely used printing technique where the inked image is transferred (or "offset") from a plate to a rubber blanket, then to the printing surface. When used in combination with the lithographic process, which is based on the repulsion of oil and water, the offset technique employs a flat (planographic) image carrier on which the image to be printed obtains ink from ink rollers, while the non-printing area attracts a film of water, keeping the non-printing areas ink-free.
Currently, most books and newspapers are printed using the technique of offset lithography. Other common techniques include:
* flexography used for packaging, labels, newspapers.
* hot wax dye transfer
* inkjet used typically to print a small number of books or packaging, and also to print a variety of materials from high quality papers simulate offset printing, to floor tiles; Inkjet is also used to apply mailing addresses to direct mail pieces.
* laser printing mainly used in offices and for transactional printing (bills, bank documents). Laser printing is commonly used by direct mail companies to create variable data letters or coupons, for example.
* pad printing popular for its unique ability to print on complex 3-dimensional surfaces.
* relief print, (mainly used for catalogues).
* rotogravure mainly used for magazines and packaging.
* screen-printing from T-shirts to floor tiles.
Digital printing accounts for approximately 9% of the 45 trillion pages printed annually (2005 figure) around the world.
Printing at home or in an office or engineering environment is subdivided into:
* small format (up to ledger size paper sheets), as used in business offices and libraries
* wide format (up to 3' or 914mm wide rolls of paper), as used in drafting and design establishments.
Some of the more common printing technologies are:
* blueprint—and related chemical technologies.
* daisy wheel—where pre-formed characters are applied individually.
* dot-matrix—which produces arbitrary patterns of dots with an array of printing studs.
* line printing—where pre-formed characters are applied to the paper by lines.
* heat transfer—like early fax machines or modern receipt printers that apply heat to special paper, which turns black to form the printed image.
* inkjet—including bubble-jet—where ink is sprayed onto the paper to create the desired image.
* xerography—where toner is attracted to a charged image and then developed.
* laser—a type of xerography where the charged image is written pixel by pixel by a laser.
* solid ink printer—where cubes of ink are melted to make ink or liquid toner.
Vendors typically stress the total cost to operate the equipment, involving complex calculations that include all cost factors involved in the operation as well as the capital equipment costs, amortization, etc. For the most part, toner systems beat inkjet in the long run, whereas inkjets are less expensive in the initial purchase price.
Professional digital printing (using toner) primarily uses an electrical charge to transfer toner or liquid ink to the substrate it is printed on. Digital print quality has steadily improved from early color and black & white copiers to sophisticated colour digital presses like the Xerox iGen3, the Kodak Nexpress, the HP Indigo Digital Press series and the InfoPrint 5000. The iGen3 and Nexpress use toner particles and the Indigo uses liquid ink. The InfoPrint 5000 is a full-color, continuous forms inkjet drop-on-demand printing system. All handle variable data and rival offset in quality. Digital offset presses are also called direct imaging presses, although these presses can receive computer files and automatically turn them into print-ready plates, they cannot insert variable data.
Small press and fanzines generally use digital printing. Prior to the introduction of cheap photocopying the use of machines such as the spirit duplicator, hectograph, and mimeograph was common.
Text from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
