Sydney Digital and Offset magazine and Book printing
The chances are you've seen examples of our offset and digitally printed books before. When it comes to annual reports, small runs of booklets and constantly changing training material, we're well known in the Sydney print market for being the go-to company to get digial books printed. Similarly, as a commercial offset printer we're more than capable of printing offset books, magazines and catalogues, and the major determination between offset and digital printing will be quantity.
Offset book printing is suited to high volume, while short run books are suited to digital printing.
How should I choose between offset printing and digital print on demand?
Our dedicated team will look at your order—quantity, trim size, paper type, timeline, etc, and help you determine which printing method is best suited to your project. Our account management team can help you determine if Print On Demand, offset, or a combination of both is right for you, as there in no mimimun quantity, it is, as always just a matter of what you want.
If you're considering making an order, the best thing to do is to contact our team to see what we can do for you.
What's the average time from order to delivery for offset printing jobs?
Once you approve your proof and place your order, printing and shipping takes anywhere from 7 to 10 working day, on average, depending on your project and where you want us to deliver it to. We have offset and digital printing options in three states of Australia, and while offshore printing is an option, here at Goliath Print don't send any work or money out of Australia. Regardless of where you print or what your timeline is, you can be sure your books will be up to Gliath Print quality standards.
OFFSET PRINT
With many years experience in Offset Printing, we're more than proud to be able to say that the quality of offset printing no longer far exceeds the digital process.
Offset printing is the old-world 'ink, stamp and transferred' process, but revised to modern machinery. The offset process becomes financially viable when economies of scale kick in. The more flyers, posters, letterheads and catalogues you print, the cheaper offset printing becomes per unit. Some examples of a printed product that would be best suited to offset printing include retail novels, letterheads & with compliments, newspapers and marketing print collateral that require high quantities.
Goliath Print Sydney will print with any paper stock you care to request in four colour process, PMS or raised printing.
book PRE PRESS
When you send us your art file, the first thing we'll do it pre press the file. Regardless of wheather you are a designer and know how to prep a file, we'll still need to pre-press your files 100%. A few things we will look into though is CMYK, DPI & resolution, trim marks and bleed
DESIGN AND TYPE SETTING
If you have a manuscript but no art file ready, we will be able to create your cover art and type-set your text page section for you. If this is something that interest you, please click here and give us as much detail as possible.
CASE BINDING
If your book is intended for constant daily use and will be subjected to considerable wear and tear, then a hard case-bound cover will be required to ensure it lasts the distance. School diaries and textbooks are good examples of this.
Hard covers are also essential if the information is valuable and the books are intended to last for many years. Reference books, history books, genealogies and art books are normally bound with a hard cover. Valuable books also call for high quality archival stocks, to ensure the book will last for many years without discolouring and acid spots. Case bound books are section sewn, with the text being imposed into signatures and sewn with cotton. The endpapers are then glued into a cloth or vinyl covered hard cover, which may be printed, foiled or embossed. This is the strongest and most archivally stable book hard binding method available.
If you would like to discuss case binding and whether it is the best option for binding your book...
Perfect Binding and Burst Binding
Perfect binding has 3mm milled off the spine and the cover is glued on. It is suitable only for very light usage, and has the disadvantage that single pages may fall out with time.
Burst binding has notches or perforations in the spine which allows better penetration by the glue. There is another significant advantage in that the spine edge is not milled but perforated, leaving the signatures intact and reducing the possibility of pages tearing out. For these reasons the burst bound book has better strength and durability than the perfect bound book.
Perfect binding and burst binding present well but are not suitable for heavy wear usages. They are useful for quality periodicals, school yearbooks, light use catalogues and other types of general usage publications. They are normally used for publications of 64 pages or more.
PUR Binding
If your soft cover book is going to be very thick, or it needs to survive constant usage or extreme climatic conditions, it may require PUR binding. This process uses a special high tech adhesive called Polyurethane Reactive Adhesive. This process is the most expensive option of the three, but will provide a binding many times stronger than standard perfect binding.
Saddle Stitching (Stapling)
Saddle stitching, also known as stapling, is one of the most efficient small book binding methods available. It is fast, economical and ideal for smaller publications and booklets. The leaves are secured through the centre fold by wire staples, allowing the book to open flat. The number of pages that can be stitched depends on how thick the paper is, although as a general rule 48 pages is the maximum advisable number of pages for a saddle stitched book.
We'd be pleased to advise you on soft cover options and whether it is the best solution for binding your books...
Wire-O-Binding
Wire binding is useful when heavy stock, odd items or a range of different stocks are required to be combined in a book. Because wire-o binding is durable and allows for full and flat opening and closing, it is useful for such printed items as calendars, samplers, colour cards, notebooks, prospecti, presentation books or unusual custom publications. The wire binding is available in a range of colours and metallic finishes to suit your needs.
printing and publishing - It's what we do - call now...
If you're interested in how to self-publish your own book, then give us a call and we'll walk you through the process. First we'll discuss what your needs are, then we'll discuss your book publishing options (paper gsm, size, cover, ISBN and etc). After that we'll quote your work for type-setting, deisgn and printing in accordence with your needs and print specifications. Once you're happy to proceed with the quote, we'll start the book design process, and one of our book designers will create a book print file for you that exceeds all expectations. We'll then let you can go through your file as many times as you want to proof the file as you need, and once your satified that the print file is 100%, then we'll print your books and deliver your newly published masterpiece right to your door.
If you're a budding Sydney author, or even if you're looking to have your existing book re-set for a second or third edition, then please feel free to get in contact with us here at Goliath Print about all your book publishing needs.
And Yes, we also print ncr (no carbon required) Books.
Are you after custom NCR invoice books or quotation books?
Our NCR printing services is based in Sydney and achieves a better price than our own Brisbane and Melbourne sites. It's with that in mind that we encourage clients from all over to Australia to contact our Sydney site about our NCR book printing, because it will be more cost effective for you to print in Sydney and have your NCR books delivered around Australia than to print your NCR books in Brisbane and Melbourne.
The team here at Goliath Print will work with you to create an NCR Book that reflects the professional quality of your services with maximum impact. Naturally, we can customise your invoice / reciept book printings to suit your exact and specific preferences. It’s not a problem at all for our experienced and profeshional team of experts.
Each book has the option of including sequential numbering, comes in a choice of 50 or 100 sets per book, comes in A4 or A5 finished size and comes in the above range of cover colours.