How To Tips for Book Binding
Perfect Binding and Notch Binding Achieving "High End Results"
We quote a substantial amount of projects, and as we all know many of these requests never become jobs. That is part of our business. Many Annual Reports, and even other styles of soft cover books, have critical crossovers, line-ups, and other issues that can impact how a job should be planned. Any Perfect /Notch Bound book that has multiple forms, and different paper choices throughout the book should only be planned after a proof has been created so you and your bindery can go over the project in greater detail, before any printing is done.
We cannot begin to count the number of pitfalls and problems that have been avoided because bindery was invited in to look at the design prior to being asked to submit layouts. Your customer's expectations are high, so why would you ask someone to construct the order of the book and how it goes together without giving them (US) an opportunity to see the design. That would be like driving from Los Angeles to New York without a road map.
All we ask is that prior to printing or job planning, that you give some serious thought to how this book will come together and incorporate your customers expectations. It's a whole lot easier to get customer acceptance prior to printing than afterwards.