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Is it Possible to Waterproof a Book?

As everyone knows, paper and water don’t make for good companions. Whether exposed directly to water (e.g., spills, floods, etc.) or indirectly (e.g, humidity, dampness, etc.), paper can be irretrievably…
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On-Demand Printing: Treasured Family Photo Books

Many families have their older photos, letters, birth certificates and other treasured artifacts scanned/digitized to preserve them for posterity. The question arises: how to share the photos/artifacts with other family…
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Printing Catalogs: What Your Printer Needs to Know

Catalogs are often the lifeblood of many product retailer and wholesalers. While many companies publish online catalogs, print catalogs are still popular and desired by those who use them to…
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Why Choose Spiral/Coil Binding Over Other Methods?

Spiral and coil refer to the same binding method: wire, plastic-coated wire or pure plastic coils inserted through holes drilled along the edge of a book that bind pages together.…
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Your Corporate Biography, Part 3

Preparing Your Manuscript to Meet Technical Requirements for Print Book manuscripts flow through multiple phases to reach the final printed form. As discussed in Your Corporate Biography, Part 1, the…
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Your Corporate Biography, Part 2

Creating any kind of book involves roughly the same steps: researching and writing the book's content; designing and laying out the book and preparing it for print; printing the book.…
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Your Corporate Biography, Part 1.

Successful, or on-the-way-to-success companies and organizations all have history that can be captured in a corporate biography. While pulling a corporate biography together is can be a formidable project, the…
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Book Printing: The Parts of a Book, Part III

Here’s our final installment naming and highlighting the different parts of a book. Afterword Similar to epilogues and postscripts, afterwords are found at the end or conclusion of the main…
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Posted inBook Design and Printing Understanding Terminology

Book Printing: The Parts of a Book, Part II

Today we’ll continue to highlight the different parts of a book. Preface Commonly found in non-fiction books, a preface (or introduction) is an essay outlining what topics will be discussed…
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Book Printing: The Parts of a Book, Part I

Ever since Gutenberg set modern printing methodology in motion in the mid-fifteenth century, books have been an indelible part of our lives. For many people, reading and acquiring books is…
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