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Digital Printing Packages

Digital printing limited to sizes listed in Print Estimate Chart at the bottom of this page.

Before deciding between our digital and offset printing packages, be sure to read “Digital vs. Traditional Printing” on the Publishing Resources page.

For an explanation of interior and cover design and administrative fees, please read “What do costs include?”

Basic Digital | $1,500 + printing costs

Includes:
Cover Design* | all images supplied by author
Interior Design | black & white, no images; up to 75,000 words (add $100 for each additional 10,000 words)
Administrative Services
Printing Costs | see chart to calculate based on size, cover, and page count.

Our basic package is ideal ffor your novel, memoir, short story collection, essay collection, poetry collection, or other non-illustrated book. Add images at $15 each for author-provided digital files and $25 each if X-Presso scans the image. Images larger than 8.5 x 11 subject to custom scanning fee.

Advanced Design Digital | $2,000 + printing costs

Cover Design* | full color, all images supplied by author
Interior Design | black & white; includes up to 25 images; up to 75,000 words (add $100 for each additional 10,000 words)
Administrative Services
Printing Costs | see chart to calculate based on size, cover, and page count.

Our Advance Design package is for those books that require a more complicated layout than traditional books, and therefore more time for design. Such books might include training manuals or other books presenting information in a hierarchal format or includes graphs or charts and there for requires extra work. Add images at $15 each for author-provided digital files and $25 each if X-Presso scans the image. Images larger than 8.5 x 11 subject to custom scanning fee.

Custom Design Digital | Prices Individually Quoted

Cover Design* | full color, all images supplied by author
Interior Design | black & white or color; unlimited number of images; unlimited word count
Administrative Services
Printing Costs | see chart to calculate based on size, cover, and page count.
Optional eBook Edition | $50

Our Custom Design Offset package is for those who wish to pull out all the stops when it comes to print quality, use of images, and even using color on the interior. Perfect if you are making a coffee table book or any book reproducing color art or photographs. And it saves you money if you wish to include more than 25 images.

*For foil-stamped hardcover books with dust jackets, add $250 for dustjacket and spine and front cover design for case binding.

Digital Printing Estimate Chart*

Cover Style	Paperback 1 traditional trade sizes (fiction, poetry, memoir, etc.)		Paperback 2 oversized (children's, textbooks, etc.)		Hardcover 1 trade sizes; stamped cloth OR 4-color cover (no dust jacket)		Hardcover 1a trade sizes; w/dust jacket		Hardcover 2 oversized; 4-color cover only
Trim Sizes (horizontal x vertical)	5 x 8" 5.5" x 8.5" 6 x 9"		7 x 10" 8.25 x 11"		5.5 x 8.5" 6 x 9"		5.5 x 8.5" 6 x 9 "		7 x 10"
Printing Costs · $15 per order handling · Shipping not included · Sales tax not included	48 - 104 pages $2.52 per unit 108 - 740 pages $0.90 per unit + $0.015 per page		48 - 104 pages $3.46 per unit 108 - 740 pages $1.30 per unit + $0.02 per page		108 - 740 pages $6 per unit + $0.015 per page (stamped cover subject to $25 set-up fee)		108 - 740 pages $6 per unit + $0.015 per page		108 - 740 pages $6 per unit + $0.020 per page
Example Costs	$0.90/unit + 200 pages x $0.015	$.90 $3.00	$1.30/unit + 200 pages x $0.02	$1.30 $4.00	$6.00/unit + 200 pages x $0.015	$6.00 $3.00	$7.55/unit + 200 pages x $0.015	$7.55 $3.00	$6.00/unit + 200 pages x $0.02	$6.00 $4.00
	Total cost per unit	$3.90	Total cost per unit	$5.30	Total cost per unit	$9.00	Total cost per unit	$10.55	Total cost per unit	$10.00

*Prices subject to change depending on the printer��s rates

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