Articles in FAQ
Your double spread gets split, printed on two separate sheets of paper, and the binding simulates the look of a spread by then juxtaposing …
Yes … but … we have minimum and maximum printable dimensions to contend with …
The interior cover pages of a hardcover are called endpapers. The endpapers are actually responsible for …
Whether we can print your specific custom-sized comic depends on whether your custom-sized job fits within the range of our print capabilities …
Sure. We can do that. You’ve got a couple of options as to how you go about sending us the files …
Self Cover means that the exterior cover is printed on the same paper stock as on the interior pages …
The best sketch covers will be mostly blank and designed to take advantage of the paper stock, giving the artist plenty of room to create.
This is the one nut that Photoshop engineers have never been able to crack. It’s improved a bit. But even in CS4 you will still see some banding …
Yes, but only if you’re going to be offering your items for sale and distribution through …
No. If we’ve got the interiors already, then you don’t need to resend them. All we need in that case is …
Absolutely not. None. By listing your titles at IndyPlanet and ComicsMonkey you grant us the right to do only ONE thing …
Probably not. Our templates represent the optimal page setup for our system, but if you’re using …
The Ka-Blam User Control Panel is your personal access area at Ka-Blam. From the User CP you can …
Easy. Just register and you can ask it in the Ka-Blam Message Center …
We’ll ship your comics wherever you ask us to. There’s a ship-to function in the order form that let’s you select a shipping address other than …
Tiff files … PC formatted, flattened with no extra layers or channels. RGB mode for color files. Grayscale mode for black & white …
Absolutely. That’s what we call “Publisher Services” and that’s what we’re all about …
We have a tiered pricing system on all comics products. You select both your price AND your shipping date …
After we have received your files and verified that they are indeed printable, we will email you an invoice …
We prefer … Paypal. Though we will also accept a personal check or money order …
Transfer your earnings at IndyPlanet or ComicsMonkey to Ka-Blam credit and we’ll automatically add an additional 10%…
All 01comics sites — including Ka-Blam, IndyPlanet, and ComicsMonkey — have a privacy policy to which we adhere strictly …
The best way is to simply upload the files to an unpublished area of your own website and then provide us with …
We charge a Reset fee (or page replacement/substitution fee) whenever we have to substitute or replace pages after we’ve built a printable document ..
Ka-Blam does not charge any setup fees on comics or paperback printing. As a rule we are opposed to setup fees on …
Absolutely. We will not print anything that is illegal, defamatory, or infringes upon the rights of another person or company. We’ve also elected not to …
There are no hard and firm rules for the placement of a UPC bar code on a saddle stitched comic. However on paperback books it’s different …
Your order goes into our Print Queue. From beginning to end there are six steps in our queue …
We prefer USPS Priority Mail. It’s usually the lowest cost option and often the fastest option as well …
On standard-sized comics (and manga-sized as well) we are able to fold and saddle stitch (center staple) a maximum of …
No. Not even “1″. If you just want to list your title at either of our fulfillment sites –IndyPlanet or at ComicsMonkey you can place a “0″ quantity order …
Of course. However, the full color rate will apply to the entire book in such a case …
Ka-Blam is a publisher services company. We offer digital printing as well as a growing list of other services …
