Sure Print & Design

Toronto based printing company provides customers with a wide range of customized Book Printing & Publication Printing services.

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PRINTING TERMS

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Term of the Week

Embossing and Debossing are the processes of creating either raised or recessed relief images and designs in paper and other materials. An embossed pattern is raised against the background, while a debossed pattern is sunken into the surface of the material (but might protrude somewhat on the reverse, back side)

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Book Printing Terms of the Week

Lamination: is the technique of manufacturing a material in multiple layers, so that the composite material achieves improved strength, stability, sound insulation, appearance or other properties from the use of differing materials. A laminate is usually permanently assembled by heat, pressure, welding, or adhesives.

Varnish: Varnish is essentially ink without pigment/colour. It is applied as another ink colour on the press.

UV Varnishing:  Refers to surface treatments which either are cured by ultraviolet radiation, or protect the underlying material from its harmful effects.

Source: Wikipedia.org

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Book Printing Terms of the Week

Collate: In printing terminology, collate means to print in sets when multiple copies are sent to the printer.

Crease: a line or mark produced by folding, pressing, or wrinkling.

Paper Drilling: is a technique used in trade binderies for providing large quantities of paper with round holes. The paper can be processed as loose leafs and in brochures (stitched, perfect bound). The holes usually serve for storage (filing), sometimes for decorative purposes.

Sources: Wikipedia.org, Webopedia.com

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What is the difference between Off-Set and Digital Printing?

Digital printing is overall less expensive, but loses color accuracy and color range, but can be produced faster. It can accommodate only a limited paper thickness and finishing choices, and a limited choice of material sizes, styles and formats.  On the other hand, while off-set printing is somewhat more costly to produce, it is generally much cheaper per unit as the quantity rises. It yields advantages of excellent color accuracy, utilizes a brighter color range, and enables a wide range of paper types and finishing techniques. Many innovative formats, shapes and sizes are possible. It does require a longer time to print than digital printing, but the results are inevitably worth it for most high quality applications.

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What Is Wire-O Bound?

Wire-O Bound, also known as Twin Loop, Double-Loop, Double-O, Duo-Wire, or simply Wire Binding, is a popular method for joining the pages and cover of a bound document. Wire-O binding offers many of the same benefits as spiral coil binding, but is more sophisticated in appearance. As such, it produces a very impressive document.

Also, it can accommodate pages and inserts of varying thicknesses, including dividers or index tabs made from heavy cardstock.    

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What Is Perfect Binding?

Perfect Binding, , is the type of binding found on most soft-cover books on book store shelves. The pages and cover are glued together at the spine and the other three sides are then trimmed so that you end up with perfect edges.

It has a very professional appearance and is relatively less expensive to produce. The square spinal edge allows the book’s title and related information to be printed on the spine providing highly visible branding of the document.   

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What are the dimensions for a novel book?

5-1/2" x 8-1/2" is probably the most popular size, but 5-1/4" x 8" also works for these books. Memoirs are similar sizes. Longer novels move to 6" x 9″ to avoid becoming overly bulky at smaller sizes. 

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What type of binding do you recommend for a hardcover book?

We usually recommend Casebound as the most common and preferred binding to use, although other options are available. With case binding, pages of the books are actually printed two pages to a sheet and folded, grouped in small sets called signatures and sewn together. The final stitched internal book is then trimmed and hard covers (leather, cloth or vinyl) are attached to the printed internal document. 

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What are the standard specifications for a paperback?

A paperback is characterized by a thick paper or paperboard cover, often held together with glue rather than stitches or staples. The standard specifications for a paperback are as follows: Text Pages: Digitally printed with 1/1 black ink on 50lb uncoated white offset paper. Cover: Digitally printed 4/0 color outside on 12pt coated cover. Cover Finishing: Glossy lamination. 

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What other services does Sure Print & Design provide?

Sure Print & Design additionally provides commercial printing and special printing. For commercial printing we are able to produce excellent quality Magazines, flyers & brochures, presentation folders, business cards, custom labels, postcards andstationery products. 

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What is the Turnaround Time?

When we receive a copy of your manuscript, we create a Proof Copy that represents exactly what you will see in the final printing. Your job is to go through it and ensure that it is perfect in terms of your detailed specifications and to provide us with a confirmation letter stating that the Proof is exactly as you require. Turnaround is the estimated time from our receipt of your signed off Proof-read manuscript to the date when we can deliver it. It largely depends on the quantity of units to be printed and the type of bookbinding. Usually: 

For short run softcover books (paperbacks) of 15 to 500 units, allow 5-7 business days after proof confirmation.

For short run hardcover books: (15 to 500 units): 7-10 business days after proof confirmation.

For large run softcover books (paperbacks) (more than 500 units); 6-7 weeks after proof confirmation.

For large run hardcover books (more than 500 units): 6-7 weeks after proof confirmation.

While on occasion, one can rush printing, it is not recommended, as it may increase the potential for quality problems in your proof reading and in our printing processes.