InstaBook Corporation manufactures book on demand

Print on demand

Print on demand , sometimes called, in error, publish on demand, is a printing technology and business process in which new copies of a book are not printed until an order has been received...

 equipment. It was founded in 1997, and is located in Gainesville, Florida

Gainesville, Florida

Gainesville is the largest city in, and the county seat of, Alachua County, Florida, United States as well as the principal city of the Gainesville, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area . The preliminary 2010 Census population count for Gainesville is 124,354. Gainesville is home to the sixth...

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The first model of the InstaBook Maker was presented at the BookExpo in LA in 1999. Patents for this technology were secured in the US and around the world by its inventor, Victor Celorio

Victor Celorio

Victor Celorio is an author, entrepreneur, inventor, and former union organizer. He lives and works in Gainesville, Florida.-Inventions:...

.(US PATENTS 6012890, 6213703, Chinese Patent 97705, Mexican Patent 241092, others).

InstaBook Maker was the first system specifically designed to download, print

Printing

Printing is a process for reproducing text and image, typically with ink on paper using a printing press. It is often carried out as a large-scale industrial process, and is an essential part of publishing and transaction printing....

 and bind a book in one step on site for a retail customer.

InstaBook installed the first book on demand equipment in a bookstore in Canada in 2001. The first bookstore with an InstaBook in the US was the Bookends

Bookends

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 store in Ridgewood, New Jersey

Ridgewood, New Jersey

Ridgewood is a village in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the village population was 24,958. Ridgewood is an affluent suburban bedroom community of New York City, located approximately northwest of Midtown Manhattan.The Village of Ridgewood was...

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