Many people will be curious how a book is born? In fact, it is printing. Printing transfers the originals, such as text and pictures through plate making, ink application. And pressure to transfer the ink to the surface of the paper to form a printed matter.

1. Layout print file

Printed documents are the preconditions for any printed matter. Only after confirming the content of the document. We can produce it on the machine through the content of the document. The step in book printing is very important. Because as small as a single character, as large as the overall typesetting. It needs to be confirmed step by step, and it is also a matter that requires great care to do well.

2. Proofing confirmation

Proofing is an important step before printing. Because only by making samples can we know whether there is any problem with the quality of the bulk. Thus, after the documents are confirmed, the proofing must be arranged first. And bulk production can be arranged if there is no problem with the proofing. It should be noted that since most of the proofing is digital proofing. There must be a certain difference between the printed product.

3. Plate making

The full name of plate making is to make printing plates. Just like photos need negatives, books also need bottom plates. There are many plate making ways. But with the social development, the common plate making are screen plate, photographic plate, electronic plate making, photopolymer plate, etc. Electronic plate making uses the principle of photoelectric conversion for color separation

Printing plate-making is one of the pre-press processes. Compared with other processes, the traditional plate-making process has a relatively low degree of automation and many manual processes. Mainly relying on the experience of the operator. With the popularization of CTP and digital printing plate-making technology. The traditional plate-making process will gradually withdraw from the market.

4. Format making

Format making is similar to jigsaw puzzles. Where manuscripts are assembled in a complete layout according to certain requirements. The format making is divided into two ways: one is the wheel version, and the other is overprint

5. Folding

Folding is a necessary process in the printing industry. The large-format paper printed by the printing machine must be folded to form products. Such as newspapers, books, magazines, sample advertisements, etc.

Folding is the working process of folding printed sheets into book stickers of book size according to the order of page numbers. Or folding large-format printed sheets into a certain format according to requirements. Folding is the working process of folding printed large-format sheets into signatures by machine. Or by hand, according to the order of the page numbers marked on them and the specified format size. Which is the major work of signature formation.

6. Printing

Printing is printed out the prepared manuscript through the printer to form a printed matter.

7. Proofread

Proofreading is an indispensable and important link in the entire publishing work. It is an extremely detailed and important specialized technical work. The major task is to check the proof one by one against the original manuscript. By the publishing rules and requirements of books and periodicals. Problems in typesetting and editing processing are found, and errors are corrected in time. The proofreading work of news and publishing organizations has its particularity and urgency. And special attention needs to be paid to the proofreading of names, titles, locations, organization names, time, numbers, citations, important facts, etc., to avoid factual errors.

8. Binding

Binding is to process the printed pages and signatures into a book. Or arrange documents, bills, etc., and make them into a booklet and other post-press processing. The binding of books and periodicals includes two major processes of staple and binding. Staple is to book pages to cost, which is the processing of the book block. And binding is the processing of the book cover, which is the binding.

Binding is the last step of a book. The book, without binding just a paper with words, is disorganized. Binding can divide into saddle switch, prefect binding, wire-o/spiral bound, hardcover, special board book binding, etc. Most of book use prefect binding or hardcover, because it is more durable.