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Title of Entry:  Curious. Won Special Products Product of Excellence, Best of Category Award, Binding Industries of America

Stock:  Text:   flysheets – Curious translucents, clear; various Curious Metallics and  Particles/lightspecks; Curious soft whipped cream; Cover Curious Touch Soft Milk.

22,000 books.  8 5/8 x 10 7/8” – 2 flysheets and 44 pp plus cover.  Swatch book with many different types and weights of paper. The challenge with this job was associated with the stock used for the cover and 1-4 pp inside the book.  Due to the “velvety” texture of one side of the paper, the stock could not be jogged or handled as usual when 2 pieces of the same material came in contact with each other.  Therefore the 4 pp inside the book (which had the velvet texture on the outside) had to be cut to two single sheets.  This created challenges and a high degree of difficulty when feeding on the perfect binder.

The cover was not a feeding problem since it could be fed out of the cover feeder as the nature of the feeder has the inside (smooth finished) sliding on the textured side.  The challenge with the cover came when the books came to the trimmer.  When arriving at the trimmer the velvety side was on the outside front and back cover and could not be handled in the trimmer or even by hand.  Our solution was to hand tip a temporary ‘fly sheet’ onto the outside of the cover before binding.  This created a new feeding challenge – one we had never attempted before.  Once the books got through the trimmer, with the flysheet, we had bound a beautiful book complete with a protective false cover that easily removes since the glue that tipped it on was trimmed off in the final trim process.

This book demonstrates using out-of-the-box thinking to work with challenging projects.

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