Randolph:
I have an Adler A5 letterpress printer sitting somewhere in the background of my mind, heart, and home. Fonts Included ...
:-(
I only so wish I knew how to use it.
Cheers,
Robin
{Stiching isn't an option for 200 pages, is is, though?}
(You're right about the Steel Rule [sorry I missed mentioning that] -- utterly essential, if you don't have a Dahl 515.
<g>
Best,
R.)
--- On Fri, 10/10/08, Randolph Healy <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: Randolph Healy <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Printing anthologies ...
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Friday, 10 October, 2008, 8:02 AM
> 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
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