I want to make a cookbook to give away around the holidays to family members. Has anyone else done this? My plan is to create it with Word and then take it to someplace like Kinkos to make copies, laminate the cover and bind it. I haven't checked their prices out, but I am guessing between $5 - $10 a copy. Are there cheaper alternatives that might be semi-professional looking through other types of printing services or at home? I have a reasonably good color printer but other than that, just home office equipment.
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Birgit
Are there cheaper alternatives that might be semi-professional looking through other types of printing services or at home?
If you decide to do it at home, there are lots of beautiful paper that you can use to print it. Just about anything that suits your fancy. They carry this type of stationery in Staples if you want to check it out. If you decide to print your own, I believe Staples will then bind whatever you bring into them to bind. Dee Dee
I did this last year for my family and it was a huge success! I checked at Kinko's, but found I got a better price at a local print and copy shop. Mine had a plastic cover and was spiral bound. The books cost $7.00 each and had 76 pages. Also, I set mine up in Adobe and it worked beautifully.
I did this last year for my family and it was a huge success! I checked at Kinko's, but found I got a better price at a local print and copy shop. Mine had a plastic cover and was spiral bound. The books cost $7.00 each and had 76 pages. Also, I set mine up in Adobe and it worked beautifully.
Go for it!!!
Margaret, did I send you one of my cookbooks?
jillie Roseville, CA
I printed "Favorite Family Recipes," so I could include recipes from all sources, just because they were someone's favorite. It had about 100 pages, I printed it myself (only printed one sided), did the covers, and paid Zephyr Copies $5 for each of 6 copies to add clear plastic covers and spiral bind them. I put two favorite meal-time prayers in the front, and a page of funny food-related quotes in the back, and then added about 6 sheets of blank paper so people could write or paste their own favorites in. Everyone loved them. I put at least one recipe in from every source in the family, so even my DIL, who is not a cook, could see her name on a recipe. She says her mom wants a copy.
I did this last year for my family and it was a huge success! I checked at Kinko's, but found I got a better price at a local print and copy shop. Mine had a plastic cover and was spiral bound. The books cost $7.00 each and had 76 pages. Also, I set mine up in Adobe and it worked beautifully.
Go for it!!!
Margaret, did I send you one of my cookbooks?
jillie Roseville, CA
Of course you did and I want to tell you again that it is a beautiful book, both the contents and the way it looks. I don't know what kind of cook book Birgit has in mind, but yours has nice family type recipes and is meant to be used by the recipients with the least trouble. Even I have little trouble with anything I have tried so far. :o)
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I want to make a cookbook to give away around the holidays to family members. Has anyone else done this? My plan is to create it with Word and then take it to someplace like Kinkos to make copies, laminate the cover and bind it. I haven't checked their prices out, but I am guessing between $5 - $10 a copy. Are there cheaper alternatives that might be semi-professional looking through other types of printing services or at home? I have a reasonably good color printer but other than that, just home office equipment.
Birgit
Yep. Have fun, just start writing and pretty soon the boor will take on a "life of its own" The difficult part will be where to stop.
What you may wart to conceder is the final format. I purposely choose 2 sided printing 3 hole punched - That way the recipients could punch and add their favorite recipes into the "notebook" I used a white book and inserted the title page into the plastic sheet on covering the front. That approach and the number of pages will increase the cost. I ended up with dividers for the different sections and a little less than 300 pages. 8 1/2 x 11. I think on the last printing it ended up being about $25.00 per copy. To me the advantage is/was that the book is "living" and can be added to at any time. That was just my choice - it doesn't make it right.
If you go to a POD (Publish on Demand) house and perfect biding you'll save about 1/2 to 1/3 the cost.
I would recommend the Family cookbook Project website at www.familycookbookproject.com, this site is set up to help you not only format and print your cookbook, but also have other contribute recipes if you want. We used it this year and plan on giving our cookbooks as presents this Christmas. The site made it very easy to enter the recipes and choose different covers and layouts. I highly recommend it.
Bill Rice wrote on 14 Nov 2005 in rec.food.cooking
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I would recommend the Family cookbook Project website at www.familycookbookproject.com, this site is set up to help you not only format and print your cookbook, but also have other contribute recipes if you want. We used it this year and plan on giving our cookbooks as presents this Christmas. The site made it very easy to enter the recipes and choose different covers and layouts. I highly recommend it.
Michelle
when I made my family cookbook...I used masterCook . since I had it already there was no cost involved...You can format the recipes anyway you'd like...Getting recipes off of the web for a family cookbook...don't you have a family to supply them?
-- The eyes are the mirrors.... But the ears...Ah the ears. The ears keep the hat up.
