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This special love stems from our cofounders background in collecting comics and interest in sequential art as a kid. Again, the upc is the bestfirst place to look on any book past the date that all comics now have a upc instead of possibly having some sort of picture in the upc box, as opposed to the scanner bars. A wide variety of cheap comic book printing options are available to you, there are 423 suppliers who sells cheap comic book printing on, mainly located in asia. If a hard cover is a preferable we suggest adding padding around the panel pages and printing an 8. Most print shops use offset printing to produce large volumes of highquality documents. Weve shipped over 150,000 orders and printed more than 3 million comics. Please contact a comic representative with details for pricing information. Kablam digital printing comics, paperbacks, manga and more. The eastern color printing company was a company that published comic books, beginning in 1933. Whether your comic book is black and white or full colour, a single issue or a large collection, a us size or a japanese. The image above shows daniel, our china office manager, inspecting the first sheets off of an offset press run. These are the two lowest items on the totem pole of comic book value poor reproduction and the least important, most static elements of the art itself.
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We serve key clienteles including book, magazine and newspaper publishers, as well as retailers, cataloguers, marketers and advertising agencies. Lightning press book printing services custom book. Brenner was born to jewish parents in 1936 and raised in. Brenner printing prints using offset and digital presses.