Technical Support

The aim of this page is to provide our customers with the resources to make cost effective decisions and to streamline your experience when doing business with us. If there is information you think should be included on this page, please contact us.

If you are completely new to book production, or even if you are are not, this page is designed to step you through the terms and decisions involved in specifying a book for printing.

Different printers run different presses, and certain book sizes work with our B1 press more efficiently than others. We’ve put together a reference guide to explain what trim sizes work best with our press. 

Colour Management

A number of proofing options are available at Gomer Press. please click here for more information.

To read about the colour repro service offered by Gomer please click here.

This page gives some information about colour management and the benefits of UV printing on our Heidelberg XL106 B1 litho press. 

For information about press passing click here

Materials

For some information about paper types and availability click here.

To see our available standard head and tail bands for case bound work please click here.

To see our standard ribbons for case bound work click here.

To see standard cloth and endpaper colours for hardback books click here.

For information about foiling processes click here.

If you’d like to see a copy of our FSC certificate click here.

Please contact us for FSC® mixed sources logos if you are printing with us.

Other Resources

This external website is very useful to generate high resolution ISBN barcodes, free of charge.

We don’t supply ISBN numbers, but if you need these one source is Nielsen (external site)

Looking for inspiration? Click here for ten fresh ideas to make your books look special without spending a fortune.

This page gives a bit of info about potential issues printing four colour black.

If you are a trade binding customer, please refer to our guidelines for supply of materials.

Please note our standard terms and conditions which apply to all jobs placed with us. If you wish to open a credit account, then you can download our credit application form here.

To view our GDPR policy please click here.