BEA SPOTLIGHT: Microsoft’s new book search, full color in print-on-demand, and a new audio-book format
- Lightning Source Inc., an on-demand book manufacturer that prints more than 1 million books per month, announced that it will begin to manufacture full-color books on-demand in August. Print samples that the company had on-hand at Book Expo showed impressive full-color images in several books. The company, a subsidiary of Ingram Industries Inc., will begin full-color production at its U.S. facility in LaVergne, Tenn., and in early 2007 will make color printing available at its U.K. facility. The company would not reveal details at this time about the technology/equipment it will be using to service the full-color on-demand market, but J. Kirby Best, Lighting Source president and CEO, commented that the color offering is the result of “two years of development and testing.”
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