Print On Demand, a Printing Technology

Print on demand (POD), occasionally known as publish on demand, is a business process and online printing technology in which novel copy of a book (or new document) are not printed till an order has been established. "Print on Demand" urbanized just after digital printing begin, since it was not inexpensive to print solitary copies using customary printing technology such as letterpress as well as offset printing.

Many customary tiny presses have replaced their conventional printing equipment by POD equipment or else contract their digital printing out to POD service provider. Many educational publishers, including college presses, use POD services to uphold a huge backlist; a few even use POD for all of their publication. Bigger publishers may utilize POD in special situation, such as reprinting older title that had been out of print or doing test advertising.