Digital Full Color Opens New Book Markets
IBT was founded 15 years ago by John R. Paeglow III as possibly the earliest all-digital book printer. General Manager Don Gleason took me through the plant, which delivers more than 100 million pages a month and is growing at the rate of 20 percent a year.
The facility houses eight sheet-fed Xerox Docutech and two IBM web-fed production lines. It has installed the first of Xerox’s new high-resolution presses, the Nuvera, with which it intends in the coming year to replace its Docutech “fleet.” In addition to its UK plant, it is developing a global network of digital printing partners. Although it welcomes any publisher, it focuses on customers with evergreen short-run titles that print under-1,000 copy runs, and will provide one-offs at the beginning, middle or tail of the life cycle.
- Companies:
- Amazon.com
- Author House
- Book Expo America
- BookSurge
- Consortium
- Cyber-Read
- Deharts
- Digital Pulp Publishing
- Edwards Brothers
- Fiction-Wise
- Fidlar Doubleday Inc.
- IBM Corporation
- Ingram Industries Inc.
- Integrated Book Technology
- IUniverse
- Lightning Source Inc.
- Lulu.com
- NetLibrary
- Overdrive Inc.
- PMA
- RR Donnelley
- Xerox Corp.
- XLibris
Eugene G. Schwartz is editor at large for ForeWord Reviews, an industry observer and an occasional columnist for Book Business magazine. In an earlier career, he was in the printing business and held production management positions at Random House, Prentice-Hall/Goodyear and CRM Books/Psychology Today. A former PMA (IBPA) board member, he has headed his own publishing consultancy, Consortium House. He is also Co-Founder of Worthy Shorts Inc., a development stage online private press and publication service for professionals as well as an online back office publication service for publishers and associations. He is on the Publishing Business Conference and Expo Advisory Board.