Hi guys,
I susbscribed to this group email not realising I would get masses of
stuff from you guys which I don't really want - no offence, it just
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Happy poetics.
xJen Jewel Brown
On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:30:56 +0000, "ROBIN HAMILTON"
<[log in to unmask]> said:
> 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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