The pages turned out really strong and heavy, but still bendy, which made for nice page turning. I cropped everything down to 13.5"x9" pages (wide landscape, sort of legal almost) to get full bleeds everywhere, spray-mounted pages together and hole punched each double-sided page myself. I took 80lb laser paper and got colour laser prints done at a small print shop at about $1.75 CDN each. look at some paper samples, thousands and thousands of paper samples. make friends with this guy, maybe he'll show you the letterpress and the drawers full of type. $20? don't expect it to happen right away. it's all staples and spiral binding these days." "can't remember the last time anyone wanted anything *bound*. tell him, "no, i want a *real* book-binding for my portfolio." after a half-hour or so of this sort of back and forth bullshit, if you're real cool, and very persistent, and put up with him blowing smoke in your face and getting a few ashes on your precious little portfolio, he *might* deign to see if he can get the stitcher running. he'll grunt/laugh and snarl at you to "take it to kinko's!". tell him you need to get your book bound, just one book. the old man at his desk back behind the glass display counter (full of sad little black and white business cards and garish wedding invitation samples) will look sideways at you for a minute and pretend to do some paperwork (wrinkled piles of bills, bills and more bills that he can't pay). it'll be either too warm or too cold inside, and it will *smell* like fresh printing, bad coffee, b.o., and cigarettes. The craft of bookbinding by manly banister įind the smallest, oldest, dirtiest print shop in town, one with actual presses and ink, "OPEN" sign in the dirty window askew. they usually have a book binding section.įor more info in a japanese book binding, go to google. you could add and remove projects with ease. this would give you a box to store unbound sheets of your work in. making a cloth covered clam shell is not that diffcult either. you could practice on test sheets until you have it right and have the confindence. you can learn how to do a simple japanese bind with fairly quick. i've gotten 50-100 sheets of 12"x18" of 100lb text before without question and without cost. Paper companies will send you paper samples for free if you pass it off to them that it's for a print client. I know you don't want to do it yourself, but with all of the model making skills you've gained, binding a book is not that daunting. they also have the ability to make fabric wrapped boxes like clamshells. at least you won't get a plastic spiral bound book. they would be able to give you good advice but will probably cost you money. there are several small book binders out there who might be interested in doing it for you. they have screwed up almost every job i took there. I would probably choose to do a bit of research on how to bind a book before i would trust kinkos.
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