Publishing 100 or more this spring? How about 2 free color pages (restrictions apply) in your book?
Publishing fewer this spring? How about 2 color page (restrictions apply) for the price of black printing in your book?
Free or Reduced Color pages with your publishing – limited time Monday, Apr 30 2012
Book Design and Book Production and Marketing and Updates bonus, book, color, coupon, design, discount, extra, file, format, free, frontice, limited time, offer, page, print, printing, publish, publishing, reduced, service, sheet, splash, spot 3:32 pm
April 2009, V8#4: Marketing Monday, Apr 6 2009
Marketing page, PR, print, tear sheet, waste 8:51 pm
Tear sheets are traditionally printed pages that were wasted in the set up of first rate book printing. Availability was generally limited to waste that was good enough to use in marketing. Tear sheets are actual book pages, and are a great way to allow book buyers to “get a taste” of your work. With digital printing, and the elimination of traditional “make ready” waste, digital tear sheets are generally purpose printed.
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This section is drawn from
http://www.gregathcompany.com/service/TearSheets.html
April 2006, V5#4: Define Thursday, Jan 29 2009
Definitions and Electronic Magazine book, book block, bookbinder, bound, end paper, endpaper, group, hard binding, leaf, material, page, printed, soft binding, text, text block, written 4:49 pm
Text Block: The pages/leaves of a book after they have been bound together. A group of printed or written pages that may be or have been bound, excluding all paper to be added by the bookbinder such as the endpapers, etc.
Book Block: Endpapers, text block and all other materials before hard or soft binding.
February 2006, V5#2: Design Thursday, Jan 29 2009
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:
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Matching end sheets (blue cover, blue end sheets, etc.)
February 2006, V5#2: Define Thursday, Jan 29 2009
Definitions and Electronic Magazine binding, break, brittle, conservator, crumpled, folded, half, leaf, page, paper, post-consumer, pre-consumer, re-binding, rebinding, recycled, sheet, waste 4:36 pm
Recycled Paper: Paper that is half (50%) either pre-consumer or post-consumer waste.
Brittle paper (in rebinding): Paper that breaks when folded or crumpled. We don’t recommend regular rebinding this type of paper – we suggest visiting a conservator instead.
January 2006, V5#1: Production Thursday, Jan 29 2009
Book Production and Electronic Magazine additives, archival quality, bond, brightness, cast, color, contrast, definition, designation, grade, industry, leaf, legibility, magnesium oxide, mill, number, page, paper, primer, printer, range, sheet, size, standardized testing, supplier, test, text, weight 4:31 pm
Basic Paper Primer
Paper weight is based on the basic size of a given paper as determined by a given mill. For this reason, many weight notations one finds has at least 2 separate numbers. This does not necessarily mean the weight fluctuates between the two. Generally with printers and suppliers is not a range, but a definition from more than one source and may include more than one grade of paper (bond, text, etc.). A 50/60# paper is ordered as 50# and as 60#. However, when put through standardized testing, it is found that each sheet carries the same weight. All specifics supplied If in doubt, check with the business presenting the number information for formal explanation. Gregath paper suppliers do recognize the standard variation in basis weight of + or – 5% as acceptable by industry standards.
Paper brightness affects the legibility and contrast of printing. The brightness test measures the reluctance of paper under strict optimal conditions and related it to a white standard (Magnesium Oxide). The test is mainly applicable to white paper grades. Basic offset grades are usually in the 80% brightness range. Aesthetic importance may also be given to the brighter papers. However, if archival quality is a focus, one must be certain that it is not traded for the brightness. White papers with 90+ brightness sometimes actually have a blue or colored cast due to additives.
January 2006, V5#1: Define Thursday, Jan 29 2009
Definitions and Electronic Magazine adhesive, attached, back, binding, bound, edge, gutter, inner, margin, page, sewing, side, spine, text block 4:26 pm
Binding Edge: Edge of text block that is attached by sewing or adhesive binding, etc.
Binding Margin (inner, gutter, or back margin): Margin where text block is attached: The distance between the binding edge of a printed page and the text area.
November 2005, V4#11: Production Thursday, Jan 29 2009
Book Production and Electronic Magazine archival quality, buffering, chemical, digital, external, factor, heat, ink, light, lighting, N/A, non-oxidizing, offset, oil, page, paper, pH, printing, process, production, rubber base, temperature, transfer 4:10 pm
A Little About Archival Quality
External Factors – Production
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Offset Printing (generally 100 or more books)
Offset printing involves chemicals which may overcome the buffering of the standard paper to some extent. The process takes place at room temperature with standard lighting and both sides of the page are printed at once. We use a non-oxidizing, rubber base ink (pH-N/A) rather than an oil base.
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Digital Printing (generally 99 or fewer books)
The paper is subjected to high heat and light during the initial transfer process. Note it goes through this process twice for book pages, once for each side. The black powder toner seems to have quite a resistance to secondary heat sources.
October 2005, V4#10: Production Thursday, Jan 29 2009
Book Production and Electronic Magazine acid transfer, acidity, air, archival, binding, chemical, clean hands, external, facility, factor, Gregath, inernal, negate, oil, page, paper, particulate, pollution, precaution, printing, process, production, quality, relative humidity, rural, skin, temperature, text, white glove 3:57 pm
A Little About Archival Quality
Internal Factors
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Binding
The various binding processes that are employed take the same care to negate acidity as the care of paper selection noted above.
External Factors – Production
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Gregath Printing Facility
Our printing plant is in a rural area with low air pollution. While we are not a “white glove” facility, our employees are kept to a “clean hands” policy, which minimizes the amount of oils on the skin (guarding against acid transfer), as well as taking precautions to further lower particulates and chemicals in the air, in-house. Our physical plant is kept at an optimum temperature with a low relative humidity (down to 45%).
