Please contact us at Info@Acmebook.com to receive either an Imaging Order Kit or a Short Run Quotation Form.

Acme Bookbinding has been providing preservation photocopying services since the late 1980s. Using black & white and color photocopiers, this service has been used to reproduce books that are still in demand for their informational content, but too brittle to use. In 1998, after years of researching various document reproduction systems, we added digital scanning and 600-dpi printing capabilities to this operation. Together these analog and digital technologies allow Acme to produce the highest-quality short-run reproductions of our printed heritage.

Digital reproduction has advanced rapidly in recent years, but there are still some limitations regarding cost-effective printing and storage of digital images. While we continue our research in new products, including OCR, current technology requires us to use a hybrid of both digital and analog techniques to achieve the best and most cost-effective results. A description of our present process follows.

The original book is disbound (unless instructed otherwise) and photocopied or scanned and printed onto opaque alkaline paper. Special care is taken to ensure that proper image registration is maintained on both the front and back of each leaf in the volume. Once reproduction is completed, the pages are bound according to LBI standards, including notched double-fan adhesive binding and buckram covers with title information stamped on the spine.

For reproductions up to 11x17 inches, unless otherwise instructed, imaging is done as follows. Pages with black and white text and line art are scanned, using text and line art settings on 600 dpi flat bed scanners. Pages with halftones also are scanned on 600-dpi scanners, but with the halftone areas of the pages are windowed and de-screened and re-screened to minimize a moire effect on the reprinted page. Color pages are reproduced on one of our color printers.

Oversized double-sided items up to 18x24 inches can be reproduced in b&w only as single sheets on our large format photocopier. Black and white reproductions larger than 18x24 inches and color, grayscale, or scanned images larger than 11x17 inches must be pieced together and are limited to single sided printing.

Scanning provides the opportunity to produce both bound hard copies and/or CDs with either Tiff or PDF files of reproduced books. Please inquire about our CD products.

Our Imaging Price Schedule provides pricing for first and additional copies. Customers interested in making over 10 copies or short edition runs should contact us for a quotation. Scanning projects with only digital output also are priced by quotation.

Acme Bookbinding assumes no responsibility for copyright clearance, and requires our customers demonstrate proof of copyright clearance for any books in question. Digital files of out-of-print books still encumbered by copyright will only be kept long enough to confirm that the bound replacement copy meets our customers' requirements. Acme Bookbinding would like to offer for sale any of the out-of-copyright titles that we have scanned, but only after an agreement has been arranged between the original customer, who sent in the book for reproduction, and our company. Please contact us for further information.

Books sent for reproduction could be included in a standard shipment to the bindery or sent on their own. If sent separately, there is a minimum invoice of $250. For other charges that may apply to imaging and binding shipments, refer to Acme Bookbinding's current Library Binding and Imaging Price Schedules.