Now publishing and printing still occupy the top spot in the entire printing industry in our country. So if you want to eat this cake, you have to understand how the publishing department of the publishing house works. In order to eat this full of sweetness. Therefore, we have to understand the "technical editor" of "publishing department", the south-facing seat and the real power.
The department responsible for the counterpart printing in the publishing house is called the "Publishing Section." The staff of the Publishing Section are compiled according to technical editors, and therefore belong to the editorial category. The copyright page of the book will also be called "Responsible Inspection and Printing." The task of how to print a book and turn it into a product is what the publishing section technical editors are supposed to do. What does the publishing department do? What is a technical editor doing? What are the rights of technical editors? What are the difficulties? How can I do technical editing? This is actually a very deep content that is also very broad. So here we only talk about the basic requirements of the next technical editor.
We must first understand what the publishing section does. The publishing department is an important department of the publishing house. He is like a rope that connects all the departments of the publishing house. If the whole publishing house is likened to a big family, then the publishing department can be said to be a housekeeper and a miscellaneous person. When a book is edited and brought back, technical editors must begin to participate in the book until the final "book" of the formation of the technical editor must follow, unless the accidental "abortion", this The book does not do it. The Publications Division is responsible for a series of tasks such as book cost budgeting, material procurement, text entry, construction under construction, and warehousing. Therefore, the publishing department can be described as a very trivial and complicated role as a butler.
If you look at the above, you might think that technical editors are nothing more than doing these things in the publishing department. You are wrong. The work of technical editors is both trivial and very important. Let's assume that there is a book to be printed to see how technical editing works.
When the responsible editorial manuscript selects a book, he will come to the technical editor to make a cost estimate. This budget is not just done. The scope of the next printing quantity should be determined according to the needs of the market, because the difference in the number of prints will directly affect the price of printed copies, so the responsible editors have to tell the technical editors a range, and sometimes even different papers according to different print numbers. Do different budgets. Secondly, according to the relevant contents provided by the responsible editors, they should discuss the text of the book together, what type of paper should be used for the cover, and how large the books should be. Will the book have several press sheets? Do you need to add art paper? Does the cover need to have a mouth? Does the cover need some special effects? And does this book have a special printing process? There are hardcover or paperbacks that have to be preliminarily fixed at this time to make a budget. The budget finally determines the pricing so that it can be judged whether the price of the entire book can be given a certain advantage in the market.
We use printing in Shanghai as an example (because the Shanghai Publishing Group and the Printing Association have published a published printing price list, and prices are unified). A book with 16 copies of 15 printed pages is used as an example (the following data are common data, that is, most of the routines will not be further described below). We assume that this book is used as a formal copybook. The text paper uses a 70G offset double-sided black-and-white printing. The cover is a one-sided, four-color printing of 250G copperplate paper. Covers are used to cover the mouth, cover the film, and tape the glue to make paperback. The number of prints is 8000.
The first step is to first calculate the cost of the material. The text material is 70G offset paper, now at 6500/ton. A total of 125 reams of paper will be consumed because the publishing house will have some sample books (calculated in 65 volumes) and extensions for printing (2.7% for black-and-white printing). It will then be considered that the paper was bought as a whole, so the final number of copies It will be set in 8114 volumes. Therefore, the 125-sheet 70G787*1092 offset paper is about 3.76 tons, which is RMB 24,439.03 RMB (tax included). The number of sheets to be set can only be set after the number of impressions is set, because the copperplate paper can be removed. And the book has a mouth so the size of the cover is 4 open, so that the cover paper needs 2.63 reams, and if it is calculated at 7800 yuan/ton, it needs 2203.67 yuan RMB.
The second step is to calculate the printing price. According to the printing price of Shanghai's books and periodicals (for publishers and printers), because the number of printed books is different, it is necessary to correspond to the corresponding printing price. This is sloppy, and if you do something wrong, you can get it yourself. With. The text of the black and white stamper 8000 is in the quotation of 5000-10000, and the final price can be drawn as RMB 5696.03. This is the easiest, because the book is not colored, the paper is not generous, the gram of paper is not smaller than 45G, and so on. There are no additional conditions so it seems very simple, as long as the unit price * print * print * 1.17 (tax) is fine. Otherwise, when other conditions are more troublesome, because if it is color, not only the type of paper but also the weight and size of the paper, and if the price of the printing spot color or other special ink is different, some of them even need to communicate with the printing factory. All kinds of this kind can't have half an error or the price will float. The following cover printing can see how the color printing is subdivided. And it depends on whether the technical editor can hold the press to save money. For example, this printing 8114 copies of practical 2029 off then according to the wage less than 2200 copies of the printing is 0.3984/4 color off the side, the actual wage is 945.7737; and if we use 2201 sheets of paper to calculate the unit price is The 0.3523/4 color split side results 907.2324 thus saves money. So the details can determine the success or failure, of course, if the number of prints is small, if it is more? If it is double-sided? This difference may not be a problem.
The third step is the cost of post-press processing. The cost here is very large and complex. In particular, the binding methods in recent years have also been varied. Including some cover arts, many of the covers have attracted readers' attention. The example book here only uses Lekou, covered with light film, and the simplest process, so the labor cost is also relatively cheaper to calculate a total of 5,810.803. Here to mention is that the binding of copperplate paper and offset paper binding is not the same, from the horse set and threading glue binding and wireless glue binding are not the same, the paper is printed, the number of prints should also be one by one. So you can't be sloppy here, you can't miss a craft, you can't add a craft, and you can't make mistakes. Sometimes the cost of postpress processing is the most time-consuming and the most complex, because some books will also have some additional items or complete sets of books and many other factors, which cannot be generalized. Therefore, the work here will also test the market of technology editors. Ability to control and negotiate.
The above is the calculation of a printed book. We can see from the above that the printing cost of this book should be around 4.8135 yuan (including tax). From one aspect, we can see that technical editors must not only understand the printing knowledge but also know about the market and co-ordination knowledge. They must be able to work day after month to achieve the ability to save printed costs.