Hi Robin,
Yes, diy as an option is alive and well.
A craft knife and a steel rule is much cheaper than a heavy trimmer.
Stitching as opposed to staples is an option.
For pamphlets of the size you mention, on can use an awl (or even just a
drill) to make the holes first). Embroidery thread with a
correspondingly large of eye needle will hold it together.
To bind on the flat, make three holes. Bring the thread down through the
centre, up at the bottom, down at the top and up through the centre
again. Repeat as nec. Then cut and tie the two ends. For a centre-fold
binding I have a pdf at www.wildhoneypress.com
best
Randolph
ROBIN HAMILTON wrote:
> Centre-stapling more than twenty sheets of paper (and it helps to have a saddleback stapler to do even that) is probably the max -- after that, you need to chop-and-trim.
>
> I've produced my own copies of 200 page books (Vidocq's _Memoirs_, and Dr. William Maginn, courtesy of googlebooks, with a pasted-on covers, are possible, but tricky).
>
> I think the bottom line is that it's pretty straightforward to produce a forty-page pamphlet, but after that, you're into investing in hardware.
>
> A 200 page book is really fairly straightforward with a duplex printer, Dahl 515, and a decent heavy-duty stapler.
>
> ... as I say, not exactly rocket science.
>
> R.
>
> {And you can do exactly the same thing cheaper but with a lot more effort with a bog-standard inkjet and a Stanley knife ...}
>
> The crunch comes in binding, and I don't think there's a way round that other than an industrial-strength stapler and *looong heavy-duty staples.
>
> UPV glue and perfect-binding *does (pace all the people who've denied this) sort-of work, but for my own purposes, I've retreated to edge-stapling anything over forty pages.
>
> Rodent
>
> __________ NOD32 3510 (20081010) Information __________
>
> This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system.
> http://www.eset.com
>
>
>
>
|