Book Printing in Mandi

Print your book in Mandi

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 Mandi. Authors, publishers, coaching institutes and companies all use the same route.

Delivery to Mandi 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. Mandi is one of the six hundred destinations by volume, at number 203 on 86 orders delivered.

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. 3 different printing products have been ordered to Mandi so far, which is why the rate card below covers more than the one job you came for.

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. Within Himachal Pradesh we deliver to 11 cities, and Mandi is number 7 of them by order volume.

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. For reference, a typical pdf print job we print for Mandi runs about 51 pages in a single copy.

Ordering from Mandi

Upload the interior and cover on printster.in, set trim size, paper, colour and binding, and pay online by card, UPI or net banking. Cash on Delivery is not available. Books reach Mandi in 5 to 10 working days from the next working day after confirmation, plus one to two days for perfect or hard binding. Large runs ship in several cartons under one tracking link. Across everything delivered to Mandi so far, the binding chosen most often is loose sheets with no binding, with spiral binding second.

What Mandi actually orders

Across the orders we have delivered to Mandi, the most common job is PDF Print, then E-Book Printing, Paperback / softcover / softback Books. 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 · Dharamsala.

Other printing we deliver to Mandi

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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