Facsimile is an often used term for a publication which is as much similar to the original as possible. 
The book or document to be reproduced is usually chosen because of its value. 
In the course of time all techniques of gravure, relief printing and planography have been used for facsimile. 
For the first edition of facsimile products the original was cut out in copper. 
Very little used is the highly laborious typografic facsimile, for which the letter of the original is being cut out and cast. It may be clear that this a very expensive technique, by which the original needs to be reproduced as original as possible. 
Such an edition can hardly be called a reprint any more. 
So these are re-issues that are a 100% digital copy of the original book or document.

From the middle of the 19th century fotographic techniques are used. The cost for re-issueing books are being lowered much more, which creates a larger number of facsimiles in this period. Photoprint facsimile is being produced from plates; photolithography brings the image through photographic way onto stone. From 1910 we have the offset press, which means a breakthrough for countless facsimiles. Some editions are not being supplied with the complete original binding because of the cost aspect. In that case we are talking about a reprint.

Boek2CD invented a new(?) term: eFacsimile. As the leap was made from "typographic facsimile" to "photolithographic facsimile", we now make the leap from lithographic to digital. The scanning of the original source material seems to go in the 
same old way: 
A scan is being made from above, which now is being saved digitally instead of on celluloid. This digital scanning then is being recognised as good as possible on a readable text, to be able to browse the book by keyword. To be able to call it a facsimile the original letter has to be visible of course. For this we chose the file format of the PDF format. (Text below image). That way you always look at the original letter as it was created by the author or printer. 
The recognized text is saved invisibly behind the image. If possible the page numbers of the digital book are adapted.
In this case we venture to say this is a eFacsimile. To add the facsimile addition to this digital book, 
the digital copy is burned on a CDROM which gets a unique print which refers to the original material. 
The same happens to the CD box.

This way at the end of this process an eFacsimile is born!

Book2CD allows to print out digital books for private use. In this "Print on Demand" segment several businesses are active. 
If you really want to make a special edition of your digital book? 
Maybe an eFacsimile without the "e"? 
Feel free to contact us, we will be happy to help you out there.