Digital vs. Offset Printing: Understanding the Key Differences

In the printing world, there are two main technologies: digital printing and offset printing. They both turn digital pictures into physical prints, but they use different methods to do it. Each has its own good points and uses. Knowing what makes them different helps decide which one to use for different projects. Factors like cost, quality, quantity and practical aspects should be considered when picking which method to go with.

How to Order Book Typesetting Service: Things You Need to Think About Before Contacting a Typesetting Studio

Once your manuscript is complete, the next step is to begin searching for typesetting services. Below, we've compiled some helpful tips to guide you through this process, ensuring effective communication with the typesetting studio.

Behind the Scenes: Building Our Websites - Technologies, Challenges, and Insights

Welcome to another blog post! Join us as we take you behind the scenes of creating our websites: Haveabook.eu and FlyDigit.io. From concept to execution, discover how we use Next.js and Sanity.io in our technology stack, the challenges we faced, and the insights we gained. Let's delve into our web development journey!

Elevating Book Covers: A Comprehensive Guide to Various Enhancements

In the competitive world of publishing, a book's cover serves as the first impression, enticing readers to pick it up and explore its contents. To make a lasting impact, publishers often employ a range of enhancements to elevate the visual and tactile appeal of a book cover. In this article, we'll explore the key differences between various enhancements, including lamination, spot varnish, glitter, embossing, debossing, die-cutting, and hot-stamping.

Beating Technical Challenges: Our Adobe Adventure

Hey there, fellow design enthusiasts! Let's talk about the wild world of digital design and the not-so-glamorous hurdles we face when diving into the depths of Adobe software. Spoiler alert: it's not always a smooth ride.

The very merry guide to killing your reflowable epub

Oh, yes, here it is. Not a fancy, well-considered recipe for your perfect reflowable epub, but the very contradiction of it. Based on what? On questions from different people and my very personal experience as a reader.

Proofreading – how to mark your corrections

You sent your book manuscript to the typesetter, waited patiently, and finally you got your book in a PDF file, ready for the first round of correction. If you ever wondered how to mark all your comments and indicate problems in a text, here are some tips how to prepare your proofreading remarks to make the whole process easier for both you and your typesetter.

How to prepare your text before typesetting (part 2)

As I mentioned in a previous article, MS Word is not a page layout program, and therefore you don't need to spend hours working on your document before sending it to the book designer.

How to prepare your text before typesetting (part 1)

MS Word is a very popular program for text editing, but it misses some key features to prepare files for print. That's why it shouldn't be used for design and layout pages.

Epublishing for education: what you should know about ebook conversion (Part 1)

Why do ebooks' developers perceive ebooks in a different way than publishers or readers?