Dwarf Printing

Quick little video on the Espresso Book Machine which is the only one in the UK. Blackwell bought this machine and my book was first printed on it at the London Book Fair on April 21st 2009! For more information on the Espresso Book Machine visit this website www.ondemandbooks.com or read below. From their website The EBM is a fully integrated patented book making machine which can automatically print, bind and trim on demand at point of sale perfect bound library quality paperback books with 4-color cover indistinguishable from their factory made versions. The EBM Version 2.0 is modular in 2 parts and the core unit measures approximately 2.7 feet deep, 3.8 feet wide and 4.5 feet high. The EBM 2.0 is available with a high speed (105 page per minute) black and white printer, a high speed color printer or a 35 page per minute printer. The EBM will print, bind, and trim a 300-page book in less than four minutes with a high speed printer model. Production cost is a penny a page and minimal human intervention is required for operation. The trim size of a book is infinitely variable between 8.5 x 11 and 4.5 x 4.5 and the EBM Version 2.0 can bind up to 830 pages. Routine intervention is needed for such tasks as refilling paper trays and emptying the trim receptacle tray. Occasionally, a paper jam will occur but the frequency is on par with any high quality laser imaging machine, perhaps once or twice a day under heavy use. Once cleared, books will continue to print from the page …

Jo Stichbury, Head of Technical Communications at Symbian, talks to John Atkins, Chairman of Newsstand UK, as we watch Demand Paging on Symbian roll off an Espresso Book Machine. For more information: developer.symbian.org http www.ondemandbooks.com

On the 18th of September the first Espresso Book Machine in Australia was unveiled in Angus & Robertson

Ran into this print on demand espresso book printing machine in St. Johnsbury, VT. Turns out not only is he printing off books to sell (and fill) on his bookshelves in the store, but he is running a publishing company from his bookstore as well, providing a full range of services from copy editing to book design and cover art, ISBN numbers and more. There are three main pieces, two printers (making it partially modular); a B&W laser printer on the left, which prints the bulk of the book on standard size, double-sided 8.5×11″, a color printer which prints the cover of the book on single sided, heavy (vellum? 88lb? not sure) paper with I think some sort of smudge-resistant color ink. In the middle is a large, plexiglass enclosure that the two printers sit on, and appears to have three distinct lobes; the collating unit, which collects the pages and applies the “perfect bind” glue, combining the cover with the pages. Next it drops down into the lower lobe where it is pressed and cools, before shifting left where the book is trimmed to size.

My first book signing in London at the Blackwell bookstore, central London. The print on demand machine that you see here is the machine my book was first printed on at the London Book Fair in 2009. I lost my job and I liked it indeed!

The Espresso Book Machine

Book signing on June 18th at Blackwell London. I lost my job and I liked it was the first “self published” book to be printed originally on this Espresso Book Machine in April 21st 2009 at the London Book Fair. This book prints in less than 4 minutes on this machine. This Espresso Book Machine is the only one in Europe. To see it and get this book and over 1 million title on print on demand, visit Blackwell London on Charing Cross Road.

The kind folks at On Demand Books allowed me to video their Espresso 2.0 POD machine in action at the O’Reilly Tools of Change Conference. From my blog at www.fonerbooks.com

Get more at www.which.co.uk Book shop Blackwell’s has introduced the first highstreet print on demand machine that will allow you to choose from millions of books, many of which are out of print, and print them in store in minutes.