Many traditional small presses have replaced their traditional printing equipment with On Demand Printing for Baby equipment or contract their printing to POD service providers. Many academic On Demand Printing for Baby publishers, including university presses, use POD services to maintain large backlists (lists of older publications); some use POD for all of their publications. Larger publishers may use On Demand Printing for Baby in special circumstances, such as reprinting older, out of print titles or for test marketing.

Following is the specification about the On Demand Printing for Baby,