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 …

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!