fore-edge printing
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- wwfc
afternoon all, need some help here if possible.
i am putting some ideas together for a client of mine and amongst the things i have been asked to do is to produce a limited edition book to be given to the clients more prestigious customers.
so one idea for the book is to use fore-edge printing to print blocks of colour and tones on the edge of the pages - is fore-edge printing the right term for this?
does anyone know, how, who, where, i can get this done or an idea of costs etc... or any pitfalls to doing this?
or any links to printers that do this kind of thing?
been a long long time since i did any print work - so need my hand holding a bit - anyone one have a good reliable printer that can do fore-edge printing?
hope to hear some suggestions about this ;-)
- neue75_bold0
for-edge printing is the correct term, I've got a job out right now where we're doing this for cards and letterhead through this printer http://www.calff.nl/index2.html but they outsource this type of thing..
it's not terribly expensive, not sure how much off-hand but remember seeing the quote and thinking it was reasonable...
the other way to get the same effect, well, it's much nicer but a lot more expensive is triplexing using two outer stocks then one coloured in the middle..
- shit didn't read your post properly, nevermind the triplexing since you're doing a book..neue75_bold
- "fore-edge"neue75_bold
- ...don't worry - you gave me the answer i was hoping for my manwwfc
- these look beautiful BTWd_rek
- to clarify, they're not mine..neue75_bold
- wwfc0
...aah perfect! - this is the kind of answer i was hoping for - is there any limitations or issues if i want to print horizontally across the edges? or is there simply no difference what shapes or forms you want to print?
ideally it would just be squares of flat colour and tones of those colours?
but many thanks neue75_bold - i will go and take a look at the url you sent - you got the ball rollin' much apprecaited
- I'm not sure, tbh, but this is pretty common with books, so can't see any issues...neue75_bold
- neue75_bold0
actually, sorry dude, I'm out of it today, it's easy to achieve just solid colour but if you actually want some sort of 'design' on the edges, that is a completely different process... I've got an example somewhere that I'll try and dig up and see how it was technically done..
- wwfc0
....yes, that's the fella! - only it'd much heavier bands - less of a gradient - but yes! that is 'exactly' the thing!
;-)
- neue75_bold0
ok, it still is called fore-edge printing, sagmeister has also done a few books with this technique, using both type and image, I'd contact a good printer, send some examples, they should be able to help you find someone...
- Nairn0
Ye gads, I'd never considered the possibility of printing spine details on the page edges before (I'm not a print designer, so why would I?), that could work really well.
...Or really not.
- wwfc0
...great stuff neue75_bold - like i say it's been some time since i did any print work - so am very grateful for your advice - ou1 ;-)
- no worries, I had similar questions here when I started looking into this for the stationary I was doing..neue75_bold
- wwfc0
....ooooh! nice! i like! ;-) looks like i asked the right person!
- 7point340
lemme go ahead and bump this.
while i have nothing to add that will help you in your search, everytime i read the title of this thread its close relation to the "moleskine project" thread had me seeing "fore-skin printing" which is something else entirely
- honest0
get a bunch of interns together with a pack of magic markers...
- plash0
always thought that was called a gilt-edged