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What Are Book Signatures, and What Does Imposition Mean?

What Are Book Signatures, and What Does Imposition Mean?

Once the signatures are ready, they are arranged through a technique known as imposition.

Before your latest book project can be published, it needs to be prepared. One step of the process is creating what is known as a signature. Once the signatures are ready, they are arranged through a technique known as imposition. Imposition allows the book’s pages to be put in the proper order before the first run of printing can begin. Let’s learn about both of these elements of the publishing world. Read more »

What Does Embossing Mean in the Printing World?

What Does Embossing Mean in the Printing World?

In the printing world, embossing is a technique of cover design.

In the printing world, embossing is a technique of cover design. Various images are pressed onto a project’s cover, and these images can be words, logos, or other types of critical information. They’re meant to help draw the eye of readers and viewers. When something is embossed, it sticks out from the surface of the material it is stamped on. Let’s learn more about embossing. Read more »

What is Finishing, and Why Does it Matter?

What is Finishing, and Why Does it Matter?

Finishing matters so much because this process puts the final touches on a book, whether it is hardcover or not before it reaches the readers.

In the printing industry, finishing is supremely important. Once a book is printed and bound, that isn’t all the work that needs to be done before it can be shipped out to bookstores and libraries. Finishing matters so much because this process puts the final touches on a book, whether it is hardcover or not before it reaches the readers. Here is what you should know about book finishing. Read more »

What Should You Know About Smyth Sewing?

What Should You Know About Smyth Sewing?

Now, one option that you might overlook is Smyth sewing – so what is it?

Self-published authors should know that they have countless book binding options once their book is ready to be published. But as tempting as distributing through the Internet can be, that’s not the only unconventional path to fame. Every writer wants to make it, on some level, even they write professionally and then scribble their daydreams into fiction in their spare time. Now, one option that you might overlook is Smyth sewing – so what is it? Read more »

How to Make the Most of Your Custom Printed Presentation Folders

How to Make the Most of Your Custom Printed Presentation Folders

Whether it is for a crucial meeting with an important client, or making a great first impression during a job interview, don’t overlook the importance of having beautiful custom printed presentations folders in your hands.

Whether it is for a crucial meeting with an important client, or making a great first impression during a job interview, don’t overlook the importance of having beautiful custom printed presentations folders in your hands. Are you a student about to defend your thesis later this semester? Then having folders such as these could prove to be a smart investment as well. Here are some ways to get the most of your custom printed presentation folders. Read more »

5 Things Your Printer Requires When It’s Time to Publish Your Book

5 Things Your Printer Requires When It’s Time to Publish Your Book

What comes to mind when you think of the word “printer”?

What comes to mind when you think of the word “printer”? Chances are, your mind immediately jumps to the computer accessory that produces all of your documents and photographs once you use the print command. But your printer is also a tremendous help when it’s time to publish your book. Here are five things you should provide them with before your book can become a bestselling masterpiece. Read more »

The Fate of Paper in 2018 and in the Future

The Fate of Paper in 2018 and in the Future

Even with the rising popularity of smartphones, tablets, and e-readers, paper is still king.

Even with the rising popularity of smartphones, tablets, and e-readers, paper is still king. However, paper as a physical format is going much the same way vinyl records and compact discs went in the world of music – slowly but surely extinct. As we go into the future paper may become scarce, but that doesn’t mean it will become less valuable. Let’s take a closer look. Read more »

How the Brain Reads in the Era of E-readers

How the Brain Reads in the Era of E-readers

Even if you have several e-readers in your home, chances are you still interact with traditional books, magazines, and newspapers.

Do you own a tablet or other similar device? Even if you have several e-readers in your home, chances are you still interact with traditional books, magazines, and newspapers. After all, these ink-and-paper standbys have always been with us, even as digital methods of storing and consuming our reading materials gain a more significant share of the marketplace. Despite the popularity of e-readers, paper still holds sway. So there’s one crucial question that comes out of all of this: how does the brain read in the era of e-readers? Read more »

Why You Should Consider Laminating Your Restaurant Menus

Why You Should Consider Laminating Your Restaurant Menus

It’s time for Baltimore restaurant week, which means an upswing in customers. Can your current restaurant menus withstand that much traffic?

It’s time for Baltimore restaurant week, which means that if you own a restaurant, you’re probably experiencing an upswing in the number of customers you typically see. Can your current restaurant menus withstand that much traffic? Although folded menus are the norm, you should consider laminating your menus instead. Read more »

4 Considerations When Designing a Custom Printed Coloring Book

4 Considerations When Designing a Custom Printed Coloring Book

Coloring books intended for adult consumers have become increasingly popular in the last few years. Here are some questions you should remember while you design your next custom printed coloring book that will fly off the store shelves.

Coloring books intended for adult consumers have become increasingly popular in the last few years. They are fantastic ways to relieve stress, and in today’s ever-increasingly stressful world, we understand that everybody could do with a healthy outlet. Here are some questions you should remember while you design your next custom printed coloring book that will fly off the store shelves. Read more »