Logic dictates that books with a paper (soft) cover, will not last as long as books with a hard cover.
June 2015 Magazine – Production Saturday, Jun 6 2015
Book Production and Electronic Magazine book, durability, hardbound, long life, quality, softbound, type 10:34 am
E-Magazine Volume 12 Issue 5: Define A-Z Thursday, May 2 2013
Definitions and Electronic Magazine advance reading copy, ARC, archival, durable, permanent, quality, safe, stable, standard 9:56 am
ARC: abbreviation – Advanced Reading Copy
Archival (Quality): The use of this term varies from the logical definition of the individual words to a wide variety of standards – always have a company explain their definition. See Also Archival webpage. Below is a definition from “Preserving Family Keepsakes Do’s and Don’ts”, Ilene Chandler Miller, 1996:
“A term that suggests a material or item is permanent, durable and chemically stable and therefore safe for the preservation of our keepsakes.”
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For other writing, printing, publishing, marketing lingo, check our glossaries at
http://www.gregathcomany.com/info/dictionary and
http://www.gregathcompany.com/info/dictionary/writers.html
Run across a word that you don’t understand? Try us – email us your word, term or phrase and we will see if we can shed some light on the matter!
E-Magazine Volume 12 Issue 4: Design Monday, Apr 1 2013
Book Design and Book Production and Definitions bright colors, contrast images, cover, density, design, file, graphic art, high contrast, image density, outer edge, quality, traditional favorites 12:08 pm
When designing color covers, if there is any possibility you may produce hard covers this consideration should be addressed when putting the file(s) together: Anywhere the cover has high wear, such as spine hinge and the outer edge (or fold) of the cover image density is a factor if long wearing covers are a goal. While bright colors and high contrast images are traditional favorites for color covers, lower pigment density slows wear (and separation from protective lamination). For longest wear, it is recommend that these high wear areas have a combined CMYK density of no more than 260. -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- This section is drawn from http://www.gregathcompany.com/binding/art/hardcolor.html
September 2012 E-Zine (V11#9): Design Inspiration Sunday, Sep 9 2012
Book Design cover, design, detail, enlarge, flattened, font, graphic, layered, native format, PDF, quality, reduce, scaling, zoom 1:47 pm
Be careful if scaling (enlarging or reducing) graphics. You can have a very high quality graphic, but if you enlarge it 800% to fit your idea of the cover, it will generally loose focus and/or pixilated. The lower the quality, the less you can enlarge a graphic. As a rule, reduction is not a quality issue, unless it is shrunk so small that little or no detail is visible. Keep in mind, if using a photo quality, or other high quality computer printer to view your graphic print outs that production machines do not always match or exceed this high end, consumer quality – unless specifically commissioned.
Graphic files that are layered should be sent in their native format, as well as being flattened into a single layer, for original artwork. If sending PDF, be sure that the conversion “locks down” all fonts.
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This section is drawn from http://www.gregathcompany.com/hb/color/coverdesign.html
August 2009, V8#8: Design Wednesday, Aug 5 2009
Book Design family, hybrid, photo, photograph, picture, quality 2:49 pm
Quality may be a factor in deciding whether to included a printed photo in a family book, but not always. Many authors are producing hybrid books so they don’t have to leave any photos out. This page contains some great ideas to be published by the Gregath Publishing Company to keep in mind.
Show your achievements, whatever they are – be they are military medals, trophies, etc. Captions are important as well.
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This section is drawn from
http://www.gregathcompany.com/photo/tips/design
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
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%).
August 2005, V4#8: Production Thursday, Jan 29 2009
Book Production and Electronic Magazine acid fee, archival, atmospheric, caustic, condition, external, factor, heat, humidity, internal, material, permanent, product, publishing, quality, UV 3:03 pm
A Little About Archival Quality
Acid free, permanent and archival can be defined many ways. However, it should be noted that both internal and external factors affect the finished product at any given time. Internal factors are those that go into the making of the raw materials. External factors are everything from the atmospheric conditions during publishing (a book produced in a large industrial park may be subjected to caustic factors), heat, humidity and UV light to a book owner’s habit of using hand lotion frequently.
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