The Espresso Book Machine or EBM is a fully integrated patented book making machine which can automatically print, bind and trim on demand at point of sale perfect bound library quality paperback books with 4-color cover indistinguishable from their factory made versions. The EBM was developed by On Demand Books to print, bind, and trim a 300-page book in less than four minutes with a high speed printer model. Production cost is a penny a page and minimal human intervention is required for operation. The trim size of a book is infinitely variable between 8.5” x 11” and 4.5” x 4.5” and the EBM Version 2.0 can bind up to 830 pages.
Routine intervention is needed for such tasks as refilling paper trays and emptying the trim receptacle tray. Occasionally, a paper jam will occur but the frequency is on par with any high quality laser imaging machine, perhaps once or twice a day under heavy use. Once cleared, books will continue to print from the page where they left off.
EBM 1.5’s are located at the University of Alberta Bookstore in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; the Internet Archive Office in San Francisco, California; the Northshire Bookstore in Manchester Center, Vermont; the Bibliotheca Alexandrina at Alexandria, Egypt; the New Orleans’ Public Library in New Orleans, Louisiana; The University of Michigan Library in Ann Arbor, Michigan; Angus & Robertson Bookstore in Melbourne, Australia; McMaster University Bookstore in Hamilton, ON, Canada, and Newsstand Books in Canterbury, England. While the Version 1.5 was a limited production model, our commercial model, Version 2.0, is available now and locations include: the University of Waterloo Bookstore, Waterloo, Canada; Blackwell Bookstore, London, England; McGill University Library, Montreal, Canada, and more coming soon.
On Demand Books believes that the Espresso Book Machine will be of high value for educational institutions and libraries, public libraries, bookstores, self-publishing, multi-lingual environments and in many other global point of sale or point of need locations.
