Hi,

I want to make a cookbook to give away around the holidays to family
members. Has anyone else done this? My plan is to create it with Word
and then take it to someplace like Kinkos to make copies, laminate the
cover and bind it. I haven't checked their prices out, but I am
guessing between $5 - $10 a copy. Are there cheaper alternatives that
might be semi-professional looking through other types of printing
services or at home? I have a reasonably good color printer but other
than that, just home office equipment.


Birgit

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> Birgit

Are there cheaper alternatives that
might be semi-professional looking through other types of printing
services or at home?

If you decide to do it at home, there are lots of beautiful paper that you
can use to print it. Just about anything that suits your fancy. They carry
this type of stationery in Staples if you want to check it out. If you
decide to print your own, I believe Staples will then bind whatever you
bring into them to bind.
Dee Dee

I did this last year for my family and it was a huge success!
I checked at Kinko's, but found I got a better price at a local print
and copy shop. Mine had a plastic cover and was spiral bound. The
books cost $7.00 each and had 76 pages.
Also, I set mine up in Adobe and it worked beautifully.

Go for it!!!

Margaret, did I send you one of my cookbooks?

jillie
Roseville, CA

Forgot to tell you... I just put the cookbook on a floppy and took it
to the print shop.

I went next door, had a cup of coffee and when I got back 25 books were
done.

I felt like a REAL published author and it was great.

jillie
Roseville, CA

jillie wrote:
> I did this last year for my family and it was a huge success!
> I checked at Kinko's, but found I got a better price at a local print
> and copy shop. Mine had a plastic cover and was spiral bound. The
> books cost $7.00 each and had 76 pages.
> Also, I set mine up in Adobe and it worked beautifully.
>
> Go for it!!!
>
> Margaret, did I send you one of my cookbooks?
>
> jillie
> Roseville, CA

I printed "Favorite Family Recipes," so I could include recipes from
all sources, just because they were someone's favorite. It had about
100 pages, I printed it myself (only printed one sided), did the
covers, and paid Zephyr Copies $5 for each of 6 copies to add clear
plastic covers and spiral bind them. I put two favorite meal-time
prayers in the front, and a page of funny food-related quotes in the
back, and then added about 6 sheets of blank paper so people could
write or paste their own favorites in. Everyone loved them. I put at
least one recipe in from every source in the family, so even my DIL,
who is not a cook, could see her name on a recipe. She says her mom
wants a copy.

N.

jillie wrote:
> I did this last year for my family and it was a huge success!
> I checked at Kinko's, but found I got a better price at a local print
> and copy shop. Mine had a plastic cover and was spiral bound. The
> books cost $7.00 each and had 76 pages.
> Also, I set mine up in Adobe and it worked beautifully.
>
> Go for it!!!
>
> Margaret, did I send you one of my cookbooks?
>
> jillie
> Roseville, CA
>
Of course you did and I want to tell you again that it is a beautiful
book, both the contents and the way it looks. I don't know what kind
of cook book Birgit has in mind, but yours has nice family type
recipes and is meant to be used by the recipients with the least
trouble. Even I have little trouble with anything I have tried so
far. )

> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I want to make a cookbook to give away around the holidays to family
> members. Has anyone else done this? My plan is to create it with Word
> and then take it to someplace like Kinkos to make copies, laminate the
> cover and bind it. I haven't checked their prices out, but I am
> guessing between $5 - $10 a copy. Are there cheaper alternatives that
> might be semi-professional looking through other types of printing
> services or at home? I have a reasonably good color printer but other
> than that, just home office equipment.
>
>
> Birgit

Yep. Have fun, just start writing and pretty soon the boor will take on a
"life of its own" The difficult part will be where to stop.

What you may wart to conceder is the final format. I purposely choose 2 sided
printing 3 hole punched - That way the recipients could punch and add their
favorite recipes into the "notebook" I used a white book and inserted the title
page into the plastic sheet on covering the front. That approach and the number
of pages will increase the cost. I ended up with dividers for the different
sections and a little less than 300 pages. 8 1/2 x 11. I think on the last
printing it ended up being about $25.00 per copy. To me the advantage is/was
that the book is "living" and can be added to at any time. That was just my
choice - it doesn't make it right.

If you go to a POD (Publish on Demand) house and perfect biding you'll save
about 1/2 to 1/3 the cost.

Enjoy,

Dimitri

I would recommend the Family cookbook Project website at
www.familycookbookproject.com, this site is set up to help you not only
format and print your cookbook, but also have other contribute recipes
if you want. We used it this year and plan on giving our cookbooks as
presents this Christmas. The site made it very easy to enter the
recipes and choose different covers and layouts. I highly recommend it.

Michelle

Bill Rice wrote on 14 Nov 2005 in rec.food.cooking

> I would recommend the Family cookbook Project website at
> www.familycookbookproject.com, this site is set up to help you not only
> format and print your cookbook, but also have other contribute recipes
> if you want. We used it this year and plan on giving our cookbooks as
> presents this Christmas. The site made it very easy to enter the
> recipes and choose different covers and layouts. I highly recommend it.
>
> Michelle
>
>

when I made my family cookbook...I used masterCook . since I had it already
there was no cost involved...You can format the recipes anyway you'd
like...Getting recipes off of the web for a family cookbook...don't you
have a family to supply them?

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