OK, so I’ve written
a book. What now?
The Mega team can assist with
getting your book edited, illustrated, designed, typeset,
proofed, promoted and distributed (see our links page).
Please speak to your consultant for further info. We can
arrange for delivery to (almost) anywhere in the world.
The whole idea behind what we do is
to make the process of getting something printed as easy
and painless as possible. We don’t want you to worry
about it. We’ll do whatever we can to make it happen.
Collections and deliveries are free
in the Cape Town area.
If there is no digital file of the book,
existing books are scanned and then output to PDF for
imposition and proofing. This means that books need never
go out of print, no matter how small the demand for them
may be.
The beauty of digital print is that
proofs are produced on exactly the same paper as the final
product. With our programmable perfect binder, proofs
are bound and trimmed to their final format for client
approval before going ahead with the print run. Books
of up to approximately 850 pages of text can be bound
in this manner.
Files are often submitted by email
in PDF form, which enables Mega Digital to produce work
for clients in other parts of the world.
All books produced by the company are
archived, and titles can be retrieved for reprinting at
short notice.
Books and Training Manuals
The rationale behind POD (Print on Demand)
is that books are produced as they are ordered, rather
than sitting in a warehouse in the hope that they will
be sold at a later stage. Books for the academic market
can also be produced per class, using only the information
required for the particular course as opposed to students
having to buy a number of full textbooks from which they
would use a limited number of pages.
Other uses of books printed on this
system are:
- Short runs for a limited audience
(niche publications)
- Promotional runs of a few hundred
copies to test the market before going ahead with a
longer litho run
- Submissions copies
- Self publishing
- Training manuals
- Loose leaf inserts for publishers
of legal updates
- On a pure cost comparison with litho
printing, typical run lengths are up to approximately
750 copies, depending on the size and extent of the
book.
With digital print, both the cover and
the text proofs are printed on the same machines and materials
that the final job will be printed on, preventing any
possibility of misunderstandings about the final product.
Books are printed as collated sets,
ready for binding. This further prevents errors which
may occur during the preparation of the books for binding.
Our black and white production capacity
at the moment allows us to produce approximately
40 000 pages per hour.
Covers and content can be personalised
for each individual learner or educator.
Quality is comparable with litho print
and in most cases cannot be differentiated from the same
product printed on a litho press. |
