The digital process enables the economic and efficient reproduction of prints over a long period of time with consistency, allowing orders of small numbers of prints whenever needed. While the process offers a high degree of consistency, editions that require exact matching should be printed one at a time.
Usually, single copies of complete books produced upon request through a variety of processes.
The process whereby clients can order any TSO publication and have it printed and posted out to them within 24 hours. This whole operation is carried out in the Oce Digital Printing Department. A typical day's requirement could range between 200 and 500 totally individual publications for the same amount of individual clients. Generically referred to as simply On Demand.
is a type of printing technology that allows a complete book to be printed and bound in a matter of minutes. This makes it easy and cost-effective to produce books one or two at a time or in small lots, rather than in large print runs of a thousand or more. Due to economies of scale, POD books have a higher unit production cost than books produced by means of a traditional offset print run. POD technology has a number of applications. Commercial publishers use it when they can't justify the expense of producing and warehousing a large print run--for instance, to keep lower-selling books or their backlists available. Some independent publishers use it as a more economical publishing model, trading lower startup costs against smaller per-book profits. Last but not least, there are the fee-based POD publishing services that offer a service that's similar--but not identical--to self-publishing. It can be perfect for a small run for family and friends.
An electronic printing process that delivers exactly and only what the customer wants, when the customer wants it, and at the place where it is needed.
Term for a variety of short-run publishing processes that include copier technologies and direct-to-press applications.
The ability of the Giclée process to reproduce prints over a long period of time with consistency. This allows orders of a small number of prints when needed - print on demand. While the process does offer a high degree of consistency over time, editions that require exact matching should be printed at one time.
Print on demand or publish on demand (POD) is a publishing methodology in which a copy is not created until after an order is received. While POD may use any printing technology, such as linocut or Gutenberg letter press, digital printing is so often employed that the terms are often used interchangeably. To add to the confusion, Print on Demand is also a trademark of Cygnus Business Media.
