Short run coffe table book

[allegro]

Im looking to find a printer for a book im working on. Thinking along the line of approx 500 books, linen faced hard back with dust sheet, full colour, a4-ish with around 300 pages. The net seems a minefield of cheapy offers but i dont know where to start.
Obviously looking to keep costs reasonable but want a nice quality feel to the book.
Would welcome any suggestions

[davhill]

So short a run puts you in the area of vanity publishing, which is usually very costly.

Are the idea and content saleable? If so, check out similar works to see if one publisher's name keeps cropping up.

Prepare for rejection though.

[anonymous-user]

I can help / advise / recommend. PM me.

[Kenty]

What about vistaprint?

[allegro]

Thanks for the comments. I'm aware that there is an element of vanity about the order size but it's for a niche cycling market with a limited demand. Would probably be a pre-order arrangement so my risks are limited but I've had initial quotes online ranging from a fiver a copy up to 30 quid. I imagined costs running to around 10-15 a copy. There is a nice little bookshop near work and I had thought about investigating printers in books similar to the quality I'm after but the order quantity may be a stumbling block.

[StevieBee]

A number of online printers offer an online fulfilment service. Some enable you to set up your own 'page' where people place orders directly with the printers who effectively print each book to order and send it to the customer on your behalf. You set the price and the then pay you the difference. You won't make as much as you would printing 500 then flogging yourself - but then you won't have the risk and hassle.

You can either upload the pages as pre-designed PDFs from your designed or use online layout tools and templates to create yourself.

Most of the main companies all use the same type of equipment, paper, processes but there does exists some variation in quality.

Bob Books seems to come up with the best reviews: https://www.bobbooks.co.uk/create/online-book-crea...

[joestifff]

My brother in law uses Blurb.co.uk for his photo journalism books

You can set up a kind of shop so people can buy them. You have to buy one first.

The quality is excellent. It isn’t however cheap.

[B17NNS]

www.pandapress.net

Speak to Laurence or Hannah.

[SCEtoAUX]

http://www.biddles.co.uk/

Old school excellence. I had 300 photo books printed at around A4 size, cost was around £7.00 per book including a dust cover.

Probably could have found cheaper but I doubt I could have found better.

[Slushbox]

There's also interim storage to consider, 500 books are a pain to store/move anywhere. There's often damage to them, even when they are palletised/ moved by the most careful white van person.

An outfit that offers print/sales/distribution might be useful.

[anonymous-user]

Worth talking to Pureprint in Uckfield. Probably not the cheap option, but they are very well set up for this.

[Spare tyre]

https://www.hobbs.uk.com

[RicksAlfas]

OP, I've dropped you an email. We print books large and small and we're not too far away from you if you want to see how it's done.