To create a photo book, in general, it is necessary: a) to print pages, and b) bring them together. There is an endless variety of options of such production in modern printing industry, such as image can be printed on an inkjet printer, but we're talking about the production of photo books as a business direction, and so far in this industry the most common two types of photo books manufacturin exist: using the photographic and printing equipment.
A better option - a photo book consisting of pages printed on silver photographic materials in a conventional digital minilab. Moreover (and this is important), not even printed some pages, and the whole turns. Therefore, they are printed as normal pictures, but the format for the photo books is bigger. The resulting sheets are bent in the middle of image, back sides are glued together with other sheets inside. Place of fold on photo paper, one might say, is almost not noticeable. For this reason, this kind of photo book layouts are preparing for view as aperture.
Sometimes between the sheets with the images embedded additional sheets of cardboard or plastic to make photobooks additional rigidity. Obtained in this way the block is made into a beautiful cover, for example, through the skin or PVC. Although a variety of other options for the cover photo book, too, there are quite a lot.
Option simpler printed on printing equipment, intended, of course, for small-scale, more precisely to say - even for a single instance. Such equipment is commonly used in imaging centers, print shops and similar enterprises. Photobooks for printing image is applied to both sides of the sheet, and stapled sheets themselves straps on the side.
Cover is usually made of cardboard. Image quality (detail, smooth color transitions) in such photobooks on closer examination yields a photographic. Bends are also very noticeable, so the design photobook developed based on the fact that each sheet, but not aperture, has its own story..