FirstPublish is the first company in the world to employ a fully automated inline book manufacturing system. This has been a collaboration between our company and our strategic partners . The finishing technology is a high speed binding system that allows us to produce short runs on any book that we produce. In fact once the data enters the inline system, the end result without any human intervention is a perfect bound book, ready to be shipped. After the book is printed, bound, trimmed, and shipped, we store all Author files in our digital storage system.
Storage is completely scalable and it is based on optical technology.
Redundancy systems are in place to protect files in case of an outage. Typically we can store hundreds of thousands of manuscripts on a single backup session. In the end, the equipment partially described above produces a finished, perfect bound book of a quality that rivals the most expensive offset printing. It is then packaged and shipped using a complete shipping solution provided by United Parcel Service. This solution allows us to ship to more than 30 countries worldwide, and anywhere in the United States, overnight.