What is the Difference Between a 2-Page Cover and a 4-Page Cover?
A yearbook cover can have either:
– printing on the outside only, ie. Front cover & back cover (2-page cover,
single-sided); or
– printing on the inside as well as outside, ie, Front cover, Inside front cover,
Inside back cover and Back cover (4-page cover, double-sided)
What Do the Terms Saddle Stitching and PUR Binding Mean?
Saddle stitching is a type of binding in which folded sheets are gathered together one inside the other and then stapled through the fold line with wire staples. This method means that your page extent must always be a multiple of 4, and it also limits the maximum number of pages you can have (approx. 60–80 pages max.) It is often a cheaper option for binding a yearbook.
PUR binding is a form of perfect binding, where the pages and cover are glued together at the spine and the other three sides of the book are trimmed as needed to give them clean “perfect” edges. Generally, PUR binding can be used on a yearbook that is more than 48 pages and means that your yearbook will have a ‘square’ spine. Generally, the extent only needs to be divisible by 2, but for larger books and print runs it is more economical to have sections of 8 or 16 as a rule.
What Does Four-Colour Process Printing Mean?
Four colour process printing (also referred to as CMYK) is a system where a colour image is separated into 4 different colour values by the use of filters and screens. The result is a colour separation of 4 images that when transferred to printing plates and sequentially printed on a printing press with the coloured inks Cyan (blue), Magenta (red), Yellow and Key (black), reproduces the original colour image.
Most of the entire spectrum of colours are reproduced with just the four process ink colours. It’s significantly cheaper than toner-based or digital printing for larger quantity runs.
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