Clothbound is a cover dressed with cloth Clothbound book with 2-colour hot-foil stamping Notice the details on the cloth Leather-bound is a cover dressed with leather (original or imitation). Leather-bound cover with gold hot-foil stamping In both cases, the beauty’s in the material. When using these materials for book covers we mainly want […]
It’s the method through which gold, silver or coloured metallic hot-foils are stamped on various surfaces, like paper, leather, plastic etc. What we should keep in mind when we want to use the hot-foil stamping method on our printouts: The hot-foil stamping is achieved with stamping dies (metallic tint plates on which the design to […]
Hello again! During the summer, the Greek sea and sun kept us apart for a while… along with the work we had after the vacations. But I’m back now, so let’s go on… Today we’ll talk about many-fold printouts. The main difficulty in this type of printed media is – what else? – folding. And […]
Simple cover The simple cover is produced as mentioned on the previous post (see pictures of the previous post – cover, inside cover). Cover with jacket flap The cover with jacket flaps is produced like the simple one, by adding flaps on its right and left sides. Flaps are useful for adding information we want […]
Adhesive is the binding of a leaflet or book by gluing 16 or 8-page signatures on the back of the book (e.g. school books are bound this way). However, this type of binding is not very solid. There is a quite powerful glue that can make them better (PUR) but it’s not widely used in […]
Each book, magazine or leaflet with over six pages is sent out to be bound after it’s printed. There are four types of binding: Saddle Stitching Adhesive Thread-sealing Spiral SADDLE STITCHING When we say stitching, we mean binding the printout with two metallic staples on its back. There’s simple saddle stitching and saddle stitching with […]
