As you can see from my video and these pictures a “Lenticular” product is one of the most distinctive, customer engaging and memorable products that I ever seen in my bindery.  We do not manufacture lenticular products, but we can give advice and suggestions on how and who can produce them.  Depending on what product that “lenticular” is to be…

The product for this week is “decal edges.”  Decal edges are “roughed” edged on special paper.  Pictures #1 to #4 show four different kinds of paper that have produced a slightly different “edge.”  Picture #2 has a “looser” edge than picture #1.  Picture #3 has a “tighter edge” than picture #4 because the paper is different.  Picture #5 and #6…

We have installed a machine to imprint ribbons!  We can imprint ribbons in widths from ¼ inch to 2 inches; ribbons with dozens of different textures and surfaces.  We can imprint personal names, pattens, logos and in dozens of different types of styles, colours and sizes.  If you need ribbons imprinted…call us…we can help!

Yes we can make round books.  Pretty much any sizes you want up to 14” across.  Cases can be padded, to have a foam feel to them.  We can sew around the edges as shown in the “baseball book” example.  Book thickness up to 2.”  You can use any stock weights that are used for regular books…give your customer something…

An interesting, trivial fact is the fact that the sale of “paint” is growing substantially.  People change paint colours more frequently.  To the point of this Eblast, printers are being asked to print more paint can labels than ever before!  As pictured, all gallon paint can labels have two 1” or 1 ¼” round holes for the handle insertion.  There…

Elastics as you can see “book elastics” come in dozens of colours, different widths, and a few different “sewn patterns,” round or flat.  Elastics for book are used increasingly for the exploding diary, journal, notebook market.  One “journal” book manufacturer called “Moleskine” generates over a billion dollars per year selling “journals”!!!  Three other companies producing similar products are doing a…

I did an Eblast about PMC machines over two years ago but I’m repeating the topic because this video explains the process much better.  As you can see in the pictures and video, the PMC die which is shiny, silver steal, acts like a giant “cookie cutter.”  Two or three inches of pre-sized printed products such as single sheet, folders,…

I recently did a video about face printed books that are printed by a printer on an offset or digital press.  This video describes the process of printing the head and/or face and/or the foot of a finished bound book after the book is bound.  The books can be either perfect bound or hard/case bound. The “printing” is done first…

These pieces are memorable, unusual and user engaging.  I’ve said it in the past that “a genius is someone who knows the difference between a fad and a trend.”  Since I’m not a genius, I don’t know if these three panel cover books, are a trend or a fad!  On occasions when I’d shown different folks one of these books,…

What I’m showing in this video and still pictures what are usually simply called a “Binder.”  An older but more descriptive term is “ring binder.”  An even older term is “loose-leaf ring binder.”  The main purpose of a binder is to enable the user to add or remove sheets.  As explained in the video, the vast majority of binders are…