Book Binding

From choosing the right color profile to sizing a document for binding, creating a design that looks good in print requires that you plan for the printing

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Book binding - hard cover DIY

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Amy Tan's new Signature Series book is a smashing success! Every page is eye candy and filled with inspiration from corner to corner. I had the opportunity to include a layout and a "PaigeBook" in Amy's book. I used only supplies from Amy's Ready Set Go line, naturally! HOME IS WHEREVER YOU 3 ARE Journaling says: No matter where we are in the world, whether near or far, as long as I am surrounded by my family, that is where I call "home." It's true - "home is where the heart is" and there's…

Each printed cell is folded, stitched together with a thread or wire, cutIt is called book binding (booklet) to attach a cover to it and make it into a book.The effort to make a beautiful and robust book is as old as the history of the book.I put it in…

These book diagrams show the parts of the print book, different bookbinding types, and step by step instructions on how to bind a book.

At the end of my last post, I had six signatures and two covers, ready for poking holes and binding. Vocab recap! (words I learned doing this) folio - a sheet folded in half to form two sheets for the book signature - a nested group of folios that are later bound together to form the book