Book binding processing hotspot

At present, the overall design of books is highly regarded in the publishing industry and focuses on the design of book covers, cover seals, and letter covers.

Book binding and postpress hotspot

1. Book cover local UV heat

Since the application of local UV coating technology in the post-press processing of books, the climax began in 2003 and was widely applied to the cover binding of books. Almost 90% of current books are “partially UV,” especially for children’s books, financial books, and management books.

2. Cover decoration gold and silver heat

In the past, only gilding and hot silver technology appeared on hardcover books. In recent years, there have been more and more applications on paperback books. Some of them also carried out bronzing and hot silvering in different parts of the cover pattern in order to make changes; some paperback books were also gilded and hot silver on ring linings and lining pages to create unique decorative effects.

3. Anti-theft version of the special process heat

The cover is subjected to various processing operations, such as folding the book cover in a unique manner, or placing the book waist upright on the cover, the width of which is slightly smaller than the cover, and can be moved to form a dynamic cover. There are also books imitation leather imprints on their covers. Another example is “Kissing Tibet with a Lens,” and simply die-cutting the cover and the text, digging up four concentric circles of different sizes and reaching 78 pages, to show different depth of field shots.

4 book top, book mouth, book decoration

Now, the front cover and back cover have been “developed” by designers. The back part of the book has also been used for various kinds of line processing. The book top, book cover, and book bottom are also included in the eyes of designers and printed on three sides. Colors (such as hot stamping, etc.) have become commonplace, and the names of printed volumes at the end of online bookbinding books have also become commonplace. Some dictionaries also punch letters in the booklet (thumb index), or cut corners into arcs, etc. . Some designers even more ingeniously design and print in the book mouth. When reading, the book mouth can present different dynamic patterns.


Publishing and printing together to create a book boutique

In order to improve the quality of books, publishers need to communicate and communicate with printing companies. On the one hand, the practitioners of publishing houses, including editors of responsibility, art editors, and technical editors, must communicate with the staff of the post-printing process in order to obtain experience and design points. Such as the use of paper, open cutting, the performance of paper and other binding materials. Due to the differences in texture, color, and texture, paper and other binding materials can exhibit strong individual colors, present a wide variety of visual touch feelings, induce readers to generate corresponding psychological reflections, and deepen the content of books, so the publishing workers are keen on it. Use different papers or other materials to present the topics. However, the material's post-press processing suitability, binding suitability, and post-processing effect are not well understood by the publishing unit. They want to understand the feasibility of such designs from the post-press processing process, and the masters who are engaged in post-press processing have say.

On the other hand, many state-owned printing companies have begun to reverse the leasing or sale of bookbinding workshops to township and township enterprises, resulting in a decline in bookbinding quality and a decline in corporate reputation. The binding processing industry has shown a promising "return" trend, and many printing companies have once again launched the printing industry. Post-processing processes, depending on the printing, post-press processing as a whole project, attach importance to the overall quality of printed products, in an invincible position in the fierce market competition. Even if it cannot immediately rejuvenate the post-printing process, "Heshan", it also began to focus on the quality of the contracted outsourcer.

Some printing companies have been looking forward to paying attention to the fierce market competition, looking for better profit points, and also helping publishers better implement design plans and broadening ideas. , With its own concept of framing, and knowing the needs of the publishing unit, it provides specific recommendations for the publishing unit on book binding structure, material application, and process methods to solve the practical problems of framing and realize the designer's various Wonderful ideas. This practice is worth learning from.

At present, publishing houses and printing companies are also facing some problems that need to be solved urgently.

(1) The introduction of equipment The new technology of post-press processing is gradually being favored by people in the industry. For example, the hot-spotting process of plastic lines, equipment manufacturers have launched new equipment, but the price is not low, the introduction of the equipment can really improve the binding quality, but also need to be further weighed.

(2) Improvement of the quality of hot melt adhesives In the post-press processing, a large amount of wireless glue binding and sewing glue are used, so improving the quality of hot melt adhesives as soon as possible is the key to improving the quality of binding.

(3) Improving the professional skills of employees There are many manual operations in the binding process, which belong to the "labor-intensive" production department. The technical level of the operators is directly related to the quality of bookbinding. Printing companies should strictly formulate employee training plans and improve their professional skills.

(4) Expansion of bookbinding market The design, processing and publishing of special-shaped books, especially special-shaped children's books, have been common abroad as early as 20 years ago, but they are still blank in the domestic book market. Therefore, printing companies and publishing companies should actively develop this vacant book market, so that the book's post-press processing technology has more room to play.

(5) Increased awareness of environmental protection The increasingly serious pollution problem has also aroused the attention of the printing and publishing industry. Searching for environmentally friendly and appropriate post-press processing technologies and technologies has become another important issue facing the printing and publishing industry.

In short, the development of post-press processing and the development of book binding design complement each other.
Source: Printing Technology