Smart, scalable and responsible print production [Ken Jones interview]
Ken Jones was Technical Production Manager for Penguin and Dorling Kindersley for several years and has since advised publishers such as Parragon, Nosy Crow, Walker…
Workflow Tools
Smart, scalable and responsible print production [Heather O’Connell interview]
Heather O’Connell has more than 20 years experience in the publishing industry and worked her way up from controller to senior management positions at Penguin…
Contract proofing: why adopt the latest profiles?
Jamie Robinson has been at f1 colour for 24 years, rising through the ranks to Managing Director. Over that time his passion for colour and…
Production Editor, Academic [JOB POSTING]
Out of House Publishing Solutions is a fast-growing publishing services company based in Gloucestershire. We offer a comprehensive project management service for every kind of…
Remote control: Collaboration and proofing tools for design teams
For many of the book publishers I work with the use of freelancers is an integral part of their workflow. Some companies offer their internal…
Trouble keeping your team’s fonts in sync?
You’re not alone. You can learn how to effectively distribute fonts with a font server. Font issues can crop up in any workflow. Font problems…
Ten things we learnt at the InDesign Conference
The InDesign Conference 2016 took place last week in Washington D.C. A three day conference for over 450 InDesign users, experts, consultants, speakers and trainers.…
The X factor. Adding the X to PDF/X
We all know PDFs. Here we are over a decade and a half into the 21st century and chances are you have probably already read…
Text Black, what it is and why you should no longer be using it
Being Upfront As every good production controller knows the cost of a print run is upfront. For illustrated books in particular, a major investment of time…
Why design matters: a photo/twitter blog
On Wednesday night EMC Design kicked off their 25th birthday celebrations in style by partnering with BookMachine to host our event ‘Why design matters: collaborating…
How to create a catalogue automatically using ONIX and InDesign
This is a guest post from Emma Barnes. Emma is co-founder of General Products, and indie publisher Snowbooks. General Products is the company behind FutureBook-award-winning…
Advance Editions puts final draft in readers’ hands
This week sees the launch of Advance Editions, a platform for crowdsourced editing allowing readers early access to soon-to-be-published books in the hope that they’ll…
