EDUCATIONAL VIDEO: Printing a Book, Old School
By John DeNardo |
Thursday, March 17th, 2011 at
12:15 am
There needs to be a modern day equivalent of this video to show how eBooks get made.
[Sent in via Paul Di Filippo]
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For a time, I lived in what used to be a printing house (not as big as the one in this video). In the basement there where still machines and molds.
Good thing we all now have phototypesetting and offset machines.
Here’s a look at the latest tech, the Esspresso Book Machine. The video demonstrates how the system goes from computer file to library quality book in minutes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q946sfGLxm4&feature=related