Printing Terminology: Signatures
Like so many words in the English language, signature is a term that has a multiple meanings. To the average person, a signature is how you write your name when…
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Spiral-Bound Booklets Make Great Restaurant Menus!
Restaurant menus come in a variety of shapes, sizes and formats. Many restaurants with extensive menus opt for a multiple page format utilizing saddle-stitch binding. In finer dining establishments, the…
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The Benefits of Spiral Binding
Also known as coil binding, spiral binding is a book-binding method that uses a metal or plastic coil inserted through holes drilled along the edge of the pages to be…
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Saddle-Stitch Books and Page Counts in Multiples of 4
The saddle-stitch binding method involves taking printed sheets, folding them in half and then putting two or three wire staples through the folded crease to hold the sheets together. A…
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A Guide to Ringed Binders
The venerable three-ringed binder has been around for 137 years giving testament to its continued popularity and usefulness. Besides making it possible to keep documents protected and easily swapped-out when…
Book Printing: Endsheets, Endpapers
Endsheets (AKA Endpapers) are paper sheets that are used to finish the insides of covers in hardcover (hardback) books. Hardcover books typically have covers made from thick paperboard that is…
Book Printing: Margins
Margins are the empty spaces that surround book (page) content; there will be margins on all four sides of each page: top, bottom, inner and outer. Margins are sometimes referred…
Book Printing: Landscape, Portrait or Square
People have become familiar with the concept of landscape orientation (width is greater than height) and portrait orientation (height is greater than width) via the use of smartphones and tablets,…
Print Terminology: Self Cover and Plus Cover
In the printing industry, when multi-page documents are bound together, the end result or product is usually referred to as a book. Books, of course, usually have covers. A book…
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Considerations When Printing Your Book
Books, be they novels, cookbooks, children's books, training manuals, non-fiction “How-to's”, etc., are commonly written by one person (sometimes a team when in a corporate setting), but designed or prepared…