Packaging Printing

Converting:
Changing one thing into another - turning a flat sheet of paper into a glued, folded, more complext structure.

Think about bleeds - if a letter head has a 2 bleed edge they're going to have to use larger sheets of paper

Any kind of show through special thing- embossing, letterpress
(seattle envelope company - has pdfs of dies on their site)

Specialty Process -
Not for large runs - maybe 10s of thousands.

Lithographic Methods:
1) Thermography - wet ink gets a thermo powder and then dried - waxy w/ raised texture - if folded it will crack
Can get thermo powder at craft stores - best using inkjet printers or wet soluable inks and brushing water on it - put powder on and then heat w/ iron.

2) Varnishing- after printing method
gives a different sheen to a section of paper - only works well on coated papers
Graphic Arts Monthly - has varnish and stacato printing
Comping for varnish - usually a spot color is placed over the area to be varnished

Relief:
1) Letterpress - traditional w/ lead type
sometimes wood type
most popular - magnizim (lastlonger & get more detail) or polimar

2) Foil Stamping -
uses heat to transfer the foil to the paper
no easy way to comp foil
can not do fine detail, thin script or halftone
to compt metal ink - buy Pearl-x mix with matt medium and paint over for metal ink

3) Embossing
a) damentinal - most expensive - needs a positive and a negative plates
b) embossing or debossing - copper plates - can easily print and then embossing
comping an emboss - file folder, cut design (through both layers) with really sharp blade, place paper over the cut, using a burnisher rub around the edges. Use a wide tipped burnirsher

Engraving:
uses an etched plate - great for high detail work
doesn't ware down fast

Scoring, perfing, and die cutting:
Scoring - can happen through a di cutting machine or done with a scoring wheel - always done on the out side of the fold
Perfing - micro and standard - on die machine or perfing wheel
Die Cutting - template that its going to take to get a specific shape - easy to speck: solid black line on a dif. layer
Lazer Cutting - can get great details cut out

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.