So you want to publish a print newspaper but need to start small? Happens a UK printer has got a deal for you… and they deliver to Australia.
And if by “small” you mean half a dozen copies or fewer, that’s no problem either.
Headquartered in Glasgow, Scotland, NewspaperClub is a subsidiary of Sharman & Company, a “traditional” newspaper business with five generations of publishing history and an eye to the industry’s evolution.
The result is that – in addition to the Tensor cold-set offset kit at Sharman’s Peterborough base – two Xeikon 9800 digital presses and a Tecnau postpress system means delivery can be within a day to a week (though we’re assuming Australia might add a little to that).
Key is the company’s imaginative ecommerce website, which having fired your enthusiasm for print, helps you get going with InDesign and Canva templates, and allows you to upload digital artwork to their site.
If your fancy is for broadsheet format – a newspaper “with authority” – fewer than 500 copies would likely be printed digitally, with the option of four to 40 pages, while bigger runs of up to 20 pages would be offset.
Popular tabloid 289x380mm is digital or offset, according to print order, and up to 64 pages. A new digital option is ‘midi’, a full-bleed format suggested for editorial-style layouts and lookbooks, and a ‘mini’ option is 170 x 250mm with bleeds.
Established in 2009, Newspaper Club has now printed more than 40 million newspapers and other products for customers large and small, among them the Financial Times, Adobe, Penguin Random House, Liberty and Duolingo.
An online price calculator costs the various formats, paginations and print run options on its site, and yes, they will deliver anywhere, including Australia, included in the GBP£164 ($A330) quoted for 100 copies of a four-page tabloid. Gets you thinking…
Pictured (below): LA-based freelance food photographer Julia Stotz – whose clients include the New York Times – used the mini newspaper to showcase a range of her work