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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
2012 Publishing Easter Egg Sunday, Apr 8 2012
Book Design and Book Production and Computer & Software and Events and Updates 4 color, book, color, digital, discount, full color, POD, print, publish, sale, special 9:49 am
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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
July 2006, V5#7: Production Tuesday, Feb 24 2009
Book Production guide, guideline, hard copy, manuscript, paper, preperation, print, quality, rule, setting 8:57 pm
Hard Copy Manuscript
A good rule of thumb to keep in mind during the preparation process of a hard copy manuscript is “what you see, is what you get”. For the best results use a smooth white paper. Expensive “top of the line” computer paper is not necessary, a good “typing” copy machine or all purpose paper is fine. Avoid colored (cream, gray, etc.), aged colored and textured (pebbled, linen finish, etc.) as well as ultra thin (onionskin, etc.) papers. Make sure that the print is clear, consistent and as dark as possible throughout. In the end, you will be much happier if the typewriter or (non-Laser or DeskJet) printer used contains a carbon film ribbon, is in good mechanical working order and has clean unbroken strikers. More and more people are acquiring Laser or Bubble Jet/DeskJet printers and these make a very nice camera ready manuscript. In good faith, we can not recommend manual typewriters, fabric ribbons, dot matrix printers or low quality DeskJet/Bubble Jet printers for a good finished product. Electric typewriters, daisy wheel or ball printers and laser or Bubble Jet/DeskJet printers (on high quality settings) can be borrowed or rented in most areas.
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This section is drawn from http://www.gregathcompany.com/udo.html
November 2005, V4#11: Design Thursday, Jan 29 2009
Book Design and Electronic Magazine archival quality, book, electronic, format, Genealogy, perfect, print, printed, publish, quality 4:07 pm
Quality: To publish or not to publish?
Don’t make the mistake of feeling the need of a perfect book before you get your genealogy in print. Especially with the “archival quality” push lately, some authors are choosing the budget needed for their own definition of archival quality as a reason for not publishing. If you don’t feel comfortable publishing in a printed format on your budget, consider offering your information in electronic form – with a printed book to come in the future.
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This section is drawn from http://www.gregathcompany.com/tipsstarting.html
July 2005, V4#7: Production Thursday, Jan 29 2009
Book Design and Book Production and Definitions and Electronic Magazine black and white, blank, bold, book, brightness, business, design, element, fiber, filler, leaf, manuscript, offset, opacity, opposite, page, paper, print, printed, printing, reflectance, sheet, transparence, weight 2:54 pm
Paper opacity is the lack of transparency that allows a sheet to conceal print on the opposite side. weight, brightness, type of fiber and filler in testing can all greatly influence opacity. Reflectance of paper is measured when backed successfully by a white body and a black body. The ratio of these two measurements determines the opacity reading. Typical opacity of 50# white offset is 88-90; 20# business paper is 84-88. A quick and very basic “home” test is to print something large and black (black and white clip art and or various sized of bolded text) on a sheet of paper, place a blank sheet of the paper to be tested over this printed sheet. Any print that happens to show through, will show a bit more if actually printed on the currently black paper. For book printing, take your darkest page and try this test. Many manuscript designers will change their manuscript elements to decrease the opacity needed for a nice book rather than pay the difference for higher opacity.
June 2005, V4#6: Define Wednesday, Jan 28 2009
Definitions and Electronic Magazine across, against the grain, alighment, binding, fiber, fold, grain, paper, print, right angle, score 6:07 pm
Against the Grain: Folding, scoring, binding, or printing at right angles to the alignment of the fibers of the paper.
January 2004, V3#1: Design Monday, Jan 26 2009
Book Design and Book Production and Definitions and Electronic Magazine camera ready copy, copy, cost effective, method, offset printing, permanent ink, print, printed, printed book, set up 11:09 pm
Book Manufacturing Concepts
Most printer/publishers have the capabilities to print by many methods, we offer quality offset printing from camera ready copy, as it is the most cost-effective approach to a permanent ink printed book. Due to set-up costs, we must limit our smallest run to 100 books. With our 33 years experience, it is just recently that we have found what we feel is a viable alternative. Always make sure companies you approach to publish define their method of reproduction if you are interested in your work standing the test of time. It is amazing to us how many copy machines and their out-put are being sold as “printed”.
December 2003, V2#12: Define Thursday, Jan 22 2009
Uncategorized impression area, margin, print 5:39 pm
Impression Area: Printable area of a page minus margin area.
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For other printing, publishing, marketing lingo, check our glossary at http://www.gregathcompany.com/gloss.html
August 2003, V2#8: Production Sunday, Jan 11 2009
Book Production and Electronic Magazine archival, copy machine, digital, digital printing, e book, ebook, film, media, offset printing, plate, POD, print, print on demand, printing, printing press, reproduction 3:54 pm
Offset printing versus digital printing
When delving into the world of digital reproduction/printing, (family) historians should be sure exactly what they are paying for. A large percentage of “digital print” that is being published is simply being produced on a digital based copy machine. While today’s digital machines (of any type) are much better than the copy machines even 15 years ago, this format hasn’t been tested by time. Much like any E-book format you can get today – it cannot be considered archival quality because of this. There are some true digital printing presses – accepted and tested printing processes that receive their printable image directly from a computer rather than plate, film, or other media. These are as archival as their printing process that has been tested over time.
