Printing

Starting points

Start with Some Printing Questions, a useful discussion on issues with home and professional printing. Be sure to read this thread to the end.

Also read the very useful thread What are the common mistakes of printing?.

You might also try RPG publishing in 'zine format, an unfocussed but useful discussion on printing at high-street printers.

Other resources

• For a useful discussion on printing shorter RPGs, look at Re: Pamphlet RPG's.

• There is a useful discussion of terms used in printing in Understanding some printing terminology.

• The thread Printer Recomendations? gives useful information on hardback printing.

• Errors and errata is a valuable and focussed thread on errata.

• Is this usual? contains useful information on overruns.

• Fulfilling orders gives good advice on fulfilling orders yourself.

• For a good discussion on printing a boxed set RPG, try Seriously Ambitious Project Idea.

For discussions on various binding methods, try:

• Perfect Bind vs. Lay-Flat Binding?
• Book binding

and for a discussion on binding machines, try Home Printing.

Searches

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Related Topics

Pricing, Print-on-demand