Book Printing in Dharamsala

Print your book in Dharamsala

Printing a book used to mean a print run you had to sell. It does not any more: Printster prints from your PDF at any quantity, from a single author copy to a run of a thousand, and couriers the finished books to Dharamsala. Authors, publishers, coaching institutes and companies all use the same route.

Delivery to Dharamsala in 5 to 10 working days, counted from the next working day after the order is confirmed. Hard cover, soft cover and glue-tape binding add one to two extra working days. Cash on Delivery is not available — payment is taken online before the job goes to print.

Paperback or hardbound

Soft cover perfect binding at Rs 110 a copy is the paperback: a printed spine, a squared edge, the thing a bookshop sells. Hard binding at Rs 250 gives a rigid board cover for library copies, gifts and anything meant to last, and Rs 275 adds golden print on the front. Spiral at Rs 40 and wiro at Rs 45 are for workbooks and manuals that need to lie flat rather than look like books. For reference, a typical pdf print job we print for Dharamsala runs about 55 pages in a single copy.

Choosing the trim size

A5 is the natural novel and handbook size and costs Rs 0.38 a page against A4 at Rs 0.60. A4 suits technical books, manuals, workbooks and anything with diagrams, tables or code. Decide before you typeset, because reflowing a finished book into a different trim size moves every page break in it. Across everything delivered to Dharamsala so far, the binding chosen most often is loose sheets with no binding, with spiral binding second.

Preparing the interior

One PDF, fonts embedded, images at 300 DPI, page size consistent from first page to last. Set a mirrored gutter of at least 15 mm on the inside edge for perfect binding, or the text runs into the spine. Check that blank versos fall where you intended, because a missing blank shifts every page after it from recto to verso. We currently reach 7 pincodes in Dharamsala, and parcels for this zone spend the full published window once dispatched.

Colour interiors

Colour is Rs 3.36 per A4 page double-sided against Rs 0.60 black and white, and a mixed file is priced as colour throughout. For a book with a colour plate section, supply the black-and-white body and the colour plates as separate files and have them bound as one volume — on a 300-page book that is the difference between hundreds and thousands of rupees. Dharamsala is inside our top two hundred destinations by volume, at number 139 on 125 orders delivered.

Proof one copy before the run

Order a single copy from the final PDF and read it in your hand: the gutter, the running heads, the spine, the image pages, the last page. It costs a few hundred rupees and it is the only reliable check on a run of hundreds. Almost every fault that ruins a print run is visible in the first copy. 3 different printing products have been ordered to Dharamsala so far, which is why the rate card below covers more than the one job you came for.

What Dharamsala actually orders

Across the orders we have delivered to Dharamsala, the most common job is PDF Print, then Paperback / softcover / softback Books, E-Book Printing. Book Printing is priced from the same rate card as all of it, and the same 7 to 10 working day window applies.

Other places we deliver to in Himachal Pradesh

The same rate card, the same twelve bindings and the same delivery window apply across Himachal Pradesh: Shimla · Hamirpur · Kullu · Solan · Kangra.

Other printing we deliver to Dharamsala

Thesis Printing · Dissertation Printing · Project Report Printing · Notes Printing · Hard Binding · Spiral Binding. Every one is ordered the same way and arrives on the same schedule.

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