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Customizing Hardcover Books With Fastback Binding
If you are using a Fastback binding system to create high quality Hardcover case bound documents, there are a huge number of options for customizing your books. This article is designed to introduce you to the use of both title sheets and headbands. Title sheets allow you add a custom printed foil graphic or title to the front of your document. Headbands give your fastback bound document the look of a traditional old style stitched hard case book.
Powis Parker Fastback Headbands:
Headbands are narrow strips of cloth fastened between the book block and the spine at the top and bottom of a book. Although they were once an integral part of the binding process, most headbands today are used as attractive decorative touches. Fastback Headbands come in a variety of solid and checkered color combinations.
Installing Headbands on your document is actually quite easy. However, you will need to add them before you insert your book block into your hard cover case. You then peel the release paper backward exposing the adhesive backing and align the edge of the headband with the edge of your book block. You then can trim the headband strip to the same width as the book block. Headband strips come in packs of 25 and are six inches long each. This means you can use a single Fastback headband to bind multiple books.
Fastback FoilFast Title Sheets:
Using Powis Parker's Foilfast printer, you can title and decorate your covers with up to seven colors of foil. Foilfast Title Sheets are made of the same materials as the Fastback Hardcovers so you are ensured of a perfect match. They may also be used to create spine titles for you books. Foilfast Title Sheets are slightly smaller than their corresponding covers. For instance, the FTS for the letter-size Fastback Hardcover is 8-1/8" rather than 8-1/2" wide. Artwork that you want to center on the book covers should have its center 4" from the left edge of the sheet.
Using FoilFast title sheets is actually quite easy. First, you Insert the Foilfast Title Sheet (FTS) into the Foilfast printer so that the narrow release paper is on the left side and facing away from you. Compose your design with any software.
When you are finished choose File > Print. Click on the "Properties" button in the Print window to open the Properties dialog box. Choose the "Upside Down" option. Put your cover in the Fastback Hardcover Guide with the exterior of the hard cover face up. Make sure that the front cover is pushed all the way into the corners of the Guide recess, beneath the green stops. Lock the cover in place by depressing the lever to the right. Remove the narrow release paper from the FTS. Align the top and right sides of the FTS against the edge of the green paper stops. Then, press the exposed adhesive area onto the cover. Gently lift the right end of the FTS and remove the large release paper. Lay down the FTS onto your cover. Smooth down the FTS to complete your custom printed cover.
Traditional Customization Options:
If you are looking for a cover that has more customization or are looking to bind a large number of documents with the same size of covers, it is possible to use other customization techniques. You can order hard covers with custom hot foil stamping, silk screening or offset printing. You can even order covers with full bleed offset printing wrapped around the entire case. These options usually require larger quantities and proof approvals before proceeding. However, they also provide the most options for customization and brand enhancement.
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If you are interested in more information about the Powis Parker Fastback Headbands or are looking for Fastback Binding Machines or Fastback Binding Strips you should visit MyBinding.com. They are the largest online dealer for Powis Parker Fastback products in the United States. In fact, they carry the entire line of Powis Parker Fastback binding products.
What's the best way to "break in" a new hardcover book?
I just received a couple of books as a gift that I'd like to keep for a while. I seem to remember once receiving a lesson on the appropriate way to open a hardcover book for the first time. As I recall, we are supposed to open the book a few pages at a time. However, I can't remember whether we started in the center or at the outside. Could you give me some advice?
The following is copied from the website below:
Opening a new book:
Careless opening of a new book , or a newly bound book, can crack its spine. Books bound in plastic are especially prone to having tight spines. To safely open a new book, place the book on its spine on a flat surface, and, holding the text block upright, open the front cover and run fingers gently along the hinge. Do the same to the back cover, followed by both front and back end sheet pages. Then, altering front and back, open small sections of pages, applying the same gentle pressure with fingers, until the entire book is open. Hold the textblock in the same upright position during the process.
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