Definitions back strip, book, bound, cover, crash, gauze, inlay, library, lining, material, mull, paper, spine, super, text block 7:06 pm
Inlay (back strip): A heavy but flexible paper strip used to stiffen the spine of a finished book.
Lining (super, mull, crash, and gauze): Material used to reinforce spines of library bound books. This material is a part of the end paper system and provides the means for a firm connection between text block and cover, giving shape and firmness to the book.
Definitions and Electronic Magazine antique, binding, characteristic, cloth, cockle, cover, designation, eggshell, embossed, english, fastback, felt, finish, leatherette, linen, machine, method, paper, pebble, perfect, sheet, soft binding, softbinding, type, vellum, wove 4:54 pm
Fastback Binding: Soft type binding. Similar to perfect binding method – cover consists of separate front and back covers with a reinforced cloth spine.
Finish: Term that describes the surface characteristic of a particular paper. i.e. antique, cockle, eggshell, embossed, English, felt, leatherette, linen, machine, pebble, vellum, wove, etc.
Book Design and Electronic Magazine alternative, contrast, cover, custom, end paper, end sheet, leaf, printed 4:45 pm
Lower cost alternative to custom printed end sheets:
Contrasting end sheets (maroon cover, mauve end sheets)
Book Design and Electronic Magazine cover, end paper, end sheet, leaf, matching, page, sheet 4:37 pm
Pep up your end papers: Lower cost alternative to custom printed end sheets:
Matching end sheets (blue cover, blue end sheets, etc.)
Definitions and Electronic Magazine backbone, backing up, book, center, cover, duplex, edge, leaf, page, paper, printing, second side, sheet, spine 2:50 pm
*Backbone: Center edge of a book perpendicular to and between its covers.
*Backing up: Printing a sheet after one side has already been printed.
* = general jargon that it not standard lingo at The Gregath Publishing Company
Book Production and Electronic Magazine binding, binding tape, cloth tape, cover, fastback, glued, perfect binding, perfect bound, reinforcement, side stitch, soft binding, soft bound, softbinding, softbound, tape and staple 5:24 pm
Binding: A new standard soft binding possibility, especially with small quantities is the Fastback cloth tape method which is a bridge between tape and staple and perfect binding: The block of the book is glued like it would be for a perfect binding with front and back covers attached. Then to cover the glued edges and for further reinforcement a strip of cloth binding tape is used for the spine.
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This section is drawn from information online at http://www.gregathcompany.com/sb/index.html
Definitions and Electronic Magazine artwork, binding, cover, emboss, manuscript, offset press, orginal, page, plate, printing, reproduce, stamping 2:55 pm
Plates: In printing, a plate is made from the original manuscript page. The plate is then used on the offset press to re-produce the page. In binding, a plate is made of any artwork for stamping covers.
Book Design and Electronic Magazine base, budget, color, cost, cover, end sheet, foil, full color, imprint, paper, price, text 2:36 pm
Overall colors: Even if you don’t have a full color budget, you can consider color on a bigger scale. What colors of cover are offered and what colors of imprint are included in the base price? What colors of end sheets and text paper can be used economically? A brown suede-look book might really be enhanced with cream text and end papers. Then, to use gold or bronze foil or even cream ink?
Red foil on carmel suede finish.
Definitions and Electronic Magazine attach, binding board, book, cover, end sheet, hard bound, hardbound book, paper, sheet 2:19 pm
End Sheet(s): The element of a hardbound book that consists of the “inside” of the covers and the first and last sheet of paper in the book. The end sheets are adhered to the inside of the binding boards and attach to the book via a double hinge that includes a sheet of paper. Ours are never lighter weight than 80#.
