binding 9-8-05

Saddle-Stitch Binding
- Signatures or spreads
- Opened and draped over saddle
- Stapled or sewn along the spine
- Lays Flat
- Signature Creep with long publications
- Really inexpensive

Perfect (Glue) Binding
- loose sheets or signatures
- usually stacked, milled and glued
- cover is applied to the glued spine
- Can sometimes print on the spine
- can lose content in the gutter
- Variety of binding methods...
- Expensive
- grinding process allows more glue to go between the signatures
- from the spine about 1/8th inch in there is a score becuase of the glue seeping over.

Punch Binding
Comb-binding Wire Spiral-Binding, Wire O binding
- Allows for full bleeds
- Reguires four-edge trim from signatures
- Easy for loose-sheets
-Punched holes block gutter content

Side-Stitching Binding
-Signatures or Loose Sheets
-Stapled or sewn along the side of the spine
-Doesn't lay flat
-Content easily lost in the gutter

Screw & Post Binding
-Loose sheets & Signatures
- Good For changing content
- Expandable
-Doesn't lay flat
- Content easily lost in the gutter

Tape Binding
-Loose Sheets & Signature
- Book lays flat
- Not very durable
- Inexpensive
- Weakest method of binding

Glue-
Cold cure glue method - PVA
Hot cured glues - liquid when hot and hard when cold

Channel Binding
-Loose sheets & signature
-Doesn't lay flat
-Content easily lost in gutter
- a metal channel is usually squeezed over the block (clamping them together)

Case Binding
-Signatures
- Puts "hard-cover" on book-block
- block can be sewn or glued
- most durable
- most expensive
-need to start with a pre-bound book block

Smith- Sawn Binding (in text book)
-New method
- mix of case and perfect
- will lay relatively flat
- flexable covers that are stiff
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Print Production 8.25 Due Week 9

Text book - can have some images but text heavy.

Multipage layout for a first act or 16 pages of a shakespear play.
(absoluteshakespear.com - on class website)
This will be a script
Title pages
Character list
Have room for notes in margines
No larger then 5x7
at least 16 pages
have to use master pages & style sheets

Turn in:
Printer Files
Printed page that has a diagram of the parent sheet of the paper i might run it on - impositioned page. If it's 17x22 how would i lay it out.
HowTo:
go to notes
need room for trim
best w/ smallest amount of waist



InDesign:
Master Pages: Template - puts the grid on all the pages
- Shift will select both left and right master pages
- Can make more then one master page style
- if a page is A and want it B you can drag and drop a B master page on top
- any graphic on a master page will appear on all the other pages
-good for header and footers - folios

Automatic Page Number
comand+option+N inside a text box on a master page

Text Fill:
If you have a huge area of text you can click on the Red Plus sign and then click on the margin of the next page and fill the margin area with text.

Style Sheets:
Character Styles - Just the font settings
- have to highlight text and apply a style to it - it will over ride any paragraph style.
- have to have the text highlighted to apply the style.

Paragraph styles - contain character info and paragraph settings
- tabs
- indents
Only have to have the curser in the text box to apply a paragraph style

They made them separate becuase sometimes you need two character settings within a paragraph style.

Print Production 8.25

Proofing Form: Due next week at printers.
Something to stamp or have a client sign off on when a project is going off to print.

Boxes for:
Accepted
Not Accepted
Accepted w/ changes (not being proofed again - usually only if there is one or two changes)

Short paragraph that is a contract:
I agree that all the typography (numbers, names), images, and layout is correct.
Party that is Liable/Authorized is signing.
Signature & date

how specific is up to me but usually kept vague so it covers anything that may happen.