On May 27, 2:44*pm, Dave > wrote:
> I'm assisting a family cookbook project (technical support I guess). *My
> involvement will be to get the book laid out and published. *My
> questions to those that have done something like this a
>
> * What were the problems you ran into and how did you solve them?
> * How did you publish the cookbook - hard copy, web, etc?
> * If you went for hard copy, was it a booklet, book, other?
> * Did you self-publish or have a commercial printer do it? *Were you
> happy with the results and would you recommend them?
> * If you self-published, what software did you use?
> * What were the costs?
> * Looking back, what would you have done different?
>
> Thanks for your time!
>
> Dave,

I printed on my little home HP printer, six copies of a family recipe
book .. 100 pages plus TOC and a couple pages of food quotes and a
family dinner prayer page. It cost an ink cartridge, plus the cost of
two reams of good, linen-finish paper, plus card stock front and back
covers with clear plastic front and back, and commercially spiral
bound. Less than $100 for the six copies.

Spiral binding is the only way to do it, because the pages will lie
flat when the book is opened. The trimmed size of mine was catalog-
size ( that's what the printing industry calls it), 6" x 9".

I also put some blank pages in the back so family members could paste
(tape) in some of their own recipes, if they wanted. I illustrated
some with my photos of the finished dish, or ClipArt images of fruits
or veggies, etc.

N.