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
June 2006, V5#6: Define Friday, Jan 30 2009
Definitions and Electronic Magazine binding edge, board, edge, fore edge, leaf, margin, sheet, trim edge 2:28 pm
Trim Edge (or Margin – also “Fore Edge”): The edge of the page (leaf) or a board opposite from but parallel to, its binding edge (i.e., opposite from its binding edge).
May 2006, V5#5: Define Thursday, Jan 29 2009
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.
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: Design Thursday, Jan 29 2009
Book Design and Electronic Magazine alternatiive, custom, design, element, end paper, end sheet, free form, freehand, leaf, one of a kind, photo, plate, printed, rubber stamp, sheet 4:28 pm
Pep up your end papers: Lower cost alternative to custom printed end sheets:
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Free form one of a kind end papers – freehand design or made with an inked rubber stamp
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Photo (or other item) plates
December 2005, V4#12: Define Thursday, Jan 29 2009
Definitions and Electronic Magazine base, basic, designation, paper, ream, sheet, size, type, weight 4:17 pm
Basic Size: Standard sheet size per type of paper that determines the weight.
Basis weight: “Weight” of a given paper determined by the weight of 500 basic size sheets.
Paper Basis Weight: designation given to a sheet of paper in terms of weight of 500 sheets (1 ream) in the standard size.
November 2005, V4#11: Define Thursday, Jan 29 2009
Definitions and Electronic Magazine font, grade, leaf, paper, paper groups, point, ream, sheet, size, thickness, weight, wrapped 4:03 pm
Point: Unit of thickness, one thousandth of an inch (0.001″).
Ream: 500 sheets of paper, regardless of size, weight, or grade. However, many refer to wrapped paper groups as a ream, such 250 index stock, 100 specialty paper, etc.
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.
