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[[File:On demand book printer 1.jpg|thumb|An on-demand book printer at the [[Internet Archive]] headquarters in [[San Francisco, California]]. Two large printers print the pages (left) and the cover (right) and feed them into the rest of the machine for collating and binding. Depending on the number of pages, printing may take 5 to 20 minutes.]]
'''Print on demand''' ('''POD''') is a [[printing]] technology and business process in which book copies (or other documents, packaging, or materials) are not printed until the company receives an order, allowing prints in single or small quantities. While other industries established the [[build-to-order]] business model, POD could only develop after the beginning of [[digital printing]]<ref>{{cite book |last=Kleper |first=Michael L. |title=The Handbook of Digital Publishing | volume= II |work=Rochester Institute of Technology Prentice Hall |year=2000 |isbn= 0-13-029371-7}} part of the Encyclopedia of Printing Technologies in 2 volumes.</ref> because it was not economical to print single copies using traditional printing technologies such as [[letterpress]]
Many traditional [[small press]]es have replaced their traditional printing equipment with POD equipment or contracted their printing to POD service providers. Many [[academic publishing|academic publishers]], including [[university presses]], use POD services to maintain large [[backlist]]s (lists of older publications); some use POD for all of their publications.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/07/31/ricepress |title=New Model for University Presses |access-date=14 August 2007 |author=Scott Jaschik |date=31 July 2007 |format=electronic |publisher=insidehighered.com |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070812003200/http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/07/31/ricepress |archive-date=12 August 2007}}</ref> Larger publishers may use POD in special circumstances, such as reprinting older, out-of-print titles or for test marketing.<ref name="snowbooktech">
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