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
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%).
October 2005, V4#10: Define Thursday, Jan 29 2009
Definitions and Electronic Magazine absorbent, absorbing, blotting, book, degree, duplicating, filter, ink, leaf, opacity, paper, printing, property, reverse, sheet, show through, stock, surface, towling, treatment, uncoated, water 3:53 pm
Paper Opacity: property which minimized to “show through” of printing from the book side of the next sheet.
Uncoated: Paper with no surface treatment; the printing surface is the stock itself.
Absorbent Paper (see Paper): Covering a variety of papers made for absorbing water and inks (degrees vary). Examples: duplicating, filter, blotting and toweling papers.
September 2005, V4#9: Design Thursday, Jan 29 2009
Book Design and Electronic Magazine binding, collector, color, deluxe, edition, family book, gift, hard bound, hard cover, hardbound, printing, publishing, soft bound, soft cover, softbound, special order, split, standard, text block, type 3:34 pm
Splitting binding types for economy: Final book publishing costs can be reduced by the types of bindings that are chosen. While a full project of hardbound books (standard, deluxe, or color) may not be affordable, a publishing of softbound books are. Depending on the project, it may be possible to hard bind a few of these special to accommodate special paid pre-orders, special gift and family books, collector editions, etc. By printing the text blocks at the same time, offset orders even saves on printing, versus publishing a hand full of hardbound books separately.
August 2005, V4#8: Define Thursday, Jan 29 2009
Definitions and Electronic Magazine area, bleed, edge, image, leaf, page, paper, printed, printing, sheet, text, trim edge 2:59 pm
Bleed: A printed image that extends beyond the trim edge of a sheet of paper.
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.
July 2005, V4#7: Define Thursday, Jan 29 2009
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
May 2005, V4#5: Production Wednesday, Jan 28 2009
Book Production and Definitions and Electronic Magazine across the grain, binding, dimensional stability, direction, fiber, fold, lie flat, long grain, paper grain, printing, problem wrinkled page, short grain, with the grain 6:02 pm
Paper Grain Direction: All papers have a grain direction. When the grain runs along the longest dimension of the sheet, the paper is “long grain”. Grain is seldom a factor in offset printing, however it is a major consideration in binding. Binderies prefer long grain since paper offers the least resistance in the same direction as most fibers in a sheet. Also, pages in books tend to lie flat better when they are made with, rather than against the grain. For saddle stitched books, a stronger book is produced with long grain, due to the fold being across the grain, but it doesn’t lay as flat. Short grain paper is has difficulty maintaining dimensional stability and may result in more book problems such as wrinkled pages, etc.
