Binding thoughts

So, took the book to visit Henry at the Book Hive. He thought it was beautiful and we will work together on a launch in the future.

A new art-book shop will open soon in the old King Of Hearts.

Then went to Jarrolds Printing Museum to see the chaps.

Derek the embosser is still ill.

Met a bookbinder called Richard Lane, had lovely chat.

He recommended that I found a binders half way between a one-man set-up and fully mechanical shabang.

Biddles of Kings Lynn

Perhaps somewhere in Cambridge, they may have more call for bespoke books with more editions needed.

Must talk to Mel Clark.

The Book is in my hands......

I feel odd. It looks great. But I am feeling some kind of pain.....

The binders had a difficult time.

I have been sent away with a needle to pierce the pages of the next batch of books to ease the sewing nightmare.

I have also been given the option of re-calibrating the book to 4 folds per section rather than 8, to make the binding process easier and hence cheaper.

The book looks great. It is a success, but a financial pain in the arse.

Each book, at the moment, costs £35 just to bind......hmmmmm.

Let's see what happens.

The Book is at the Binders!

Well the brick is being made, oh yeah.

Sal and I left the house with the book, we shot video of ourselves triumphantly walking down the spiral stairs, out into the world, forward, forward to a new beginning.

We chatted with excitement about all sorts on the way down Unthank Rd.........

We arrived, we took out the booty, Proud.

"You don't expect me to fold the pages in half do you? At the price I've quoted you I can't possibly do that."

At no point in the process did I believe I had to fold the pages, I thought the binder would have a special folding technique or tool.
Another thing learnt....always learning....which is lovely.....oh yes.

Humiliated and pissed off we walked the walk of shame home, folded the pages within an hour and sulked.

I returned the book to the binders, it is being bound.

Embossing the cover......Jarrolds Printing Museum Chaps may help. Duncan, David and Derick...Derick is the key chap, he's ill....

We'll see how that pans out, get well, Jarrolds Museum Derick.

Ordering the book pages

Putting the book in order has merged into putting the music tracks in order too.

The world of the book has consumed my head.

Accompanied by Let England Shake....the brilliant PJ Harvey's new diamond

Command :D

Yes, happy faces all round, Command D has been today's most useful instruction.....
In illustrator we are duplicating .........on and on and on and on ...
In photoshop we are deselecting....command D.
Illustrator, shift constrains, alt duplicates once, command D copy copy copy
Type (in illustrator) I want to manipulate you, so I must create outlines...nothing is gonna happen if I don't.

Type along a line... Pen tool , then path selection along top bar....it wont work if you don't

Exciting finale........
Photoshop..... Multiply gets rid of white
Screen gets rid of black
Then you use 'levels' to adjust and perhaps a gaussian blur.

Lap of honour.......

Journal is private, use text edit it's ace
Blog, public.....I'm coming over to stab you in the head.....oh, sorry did I actually type that, I thought no-one would read my blog.

Kitchen paper

So....off to the art school and I find new papers...

.Junior Art paper, Kitchen paper and think about layout paper and brown paper.

Junior Art paper could be the paper I have been looking for all along......

though recycled paperback paper available from Falkners could also be it!

Super A3 exists....what an upside down world! ..329mm x 483mm

Went to Eco-print 155 Waterloo Rd, Paul Youngs, to get test prints....v.helpful

The Xerox machine will do good prints but it puts a layer of oil on the print after the melted plastic powder...

The papers I tested somehow messed with the oil, we found oil marks on paper beyond printed area.

Suggestion is to try a machine that does all the same things apart from the oil part.

Apple are trying to own the letter 'i' .... sorry I digress.

So instructions to contact Crowes Printers, to use the Zeikon machine or the Bizhub.

Dry toner laser printer, which can print any length paper.

The last month of the book.......

Today is colour tests again. I get very excited about laser printer prints.
Not laser copier, laser printer (that mix-up involved a 30 minute fruitless walk into the depths of outer Norwich, I did experiment with marching songs thou, on the way home)....
Laser printer.....those wee bits of plastic powder heated up and squashed onto the page.
It seems to take to any type of paper including newsprint, and wall lining paper.
The colours are bright and exciting to yer eyeball. i have a new paper stock to try....Bible paper....
It's as thin as newsprint, but whiter and archival.....less acid content. Acid=decomposition+discolouration.....
which I don't mind, but the paper turning brittle and disintegrating is less good.
Will it work? I have a small quiet dream that the laser printer will magically take paper longer than A3....
The book is 25cmx25cm...so longer than A3 has become part of my living days these past 2 years.