CABTAL Print on Demand (POD) Service

Print on demand (POD) is a printing technology and business process in which copies of a book (or other document) are not printed until an order has been received, allowing books to be printed singly, or in small quantities. CABTAL has acquired some equipment and is setting up such a service. I spent a week in our head office in Yaounde working with Denis and Joseph from the States along with my Cameroonian colleagues learning the terminology, principles and techniques of transforming electronic documents into hard copy books. It all started timidly but at the end of the day, we were all able to smile as we could hold in our hands copies of books after they had gone through the entire process of printing, cutting, laminating, binding and trimming. It is all amazing how we can easily make even one book or several copies without a lot of stress that goes on in big printing industries.