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The photo book is the best way to show off your brilliant images and you have total control over how it looks. Join us on a behind the scenes journey as we follow the production of a photo book at CEWE UK The photobook: fromstart to finish
Whether it’s a family occasion, a holiday to remember or a collection of your finest images, a photo book is a simply wonderful way of presenting your shots. What’s really brilliant is that you have total control over your book and how it looks. CEWE’sCreator Software lets youdesignhow the book looks; so you can have a mix of small andbigpictures, choosewhether to addwords to accompany the pictures or decide whether you want to have coloured pages. It’s entirely up to you and you can either have total control or, if you prefer, you can let the software do the hardwork and CEWE’s software can produce a finished book in just a few clicks. You then have a choice of different paper surfaces, page weights, the number of pages and even cover style. There is not much that
you can’t customise to give your book of photographs a completely professional look and with CEWE’s help your book will have a professional finish too. CEWE UK is based in Warwick and produces the award-winning CEWE PHOTOBOOK. With its 70-strong full-time team it’s one of the UK’s leading photo book producers. Its premium matt book is one of the most popular lines that it produces for Europe as well as the UK. Photography News visited its facility in the busy time leading up to last Christmas to see exactly what happens in the photo book production workflow.
2. Printing the book’s pages
There is not much that you can’t customise to give your book of photographs a completely professional look
The most important step is to print the book’s inner pages so great care and attention is needed to ensure the best possible results. CEWE’s premiummatt books – the most popular product line – are printed on Kodak NexPress S3200 machines. At the start of every shift, standard test pages are printed and scanned to ensure the machines are accurately calibrated, that they’re giving perfect registration and that the colour reproduction is spot on. Once up and running each machine can produce around 100 A4 books an hour, depending on page count.
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1. Orders come in
Orders come in via the CEWE Photoworld website and are processed and batch managed. Pictures go through an intelligent calibration system to make sure they look their best while batching orders means all the same book sizes are kept together and printed to maximise workflow and minimise waste. During peak times, like the run-up to Christmas, CEWE runs 24/7 with two 12 hour shifts, and orders are checked regularly to give very fast turnaround.
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