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Whenever you have a book or any kind of material and you want to print copies of it using the digital method, you only have two option: black-and-white and colour.
Offset printing is the traditional way the industry has used for decades. In this process, the entire book, every single one of its pages, is “photographed” and transformed into film sheets. These sheets than are used as “negatives” of your book from which each copy will be made.
Before talking about printing and binding itself, let's explore the universe of paper. Because paper is the raw material from which your whole project will made. Everything will depend on paper and by using and the correct choice of paper is very important for the success of your project. There are so many options out there that a prior knowledge of some paper theory can be very useful when dealing with printers.