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Product of Excellence Award (Best of Category, BIA)
Category Name: They Said It Couldn’t Be Done – Graphic Finishing
Title of Entry: Atelier on Robson

2700 books. Cut cover, tip on offset sheet, PUR perfect bound and trimmed, 9” x 14 ¾” 12 pp + foldout + cover, then apply preformed pocket to inside back cover. A double thick Kromekote Silver-one-sided cover made this job extremely challenging. “It scratches if you LOOK at it!” says Irene, one of our handwork specialists. This stock was extremely difficult to put onto the machine because everything from fingerprints to general handling would leave abrasive marks on this shiny stock. In order to prevent the cover from marking, our team of handwork specialists tipped on a sheet of offset stock to the outside of the cover so it was possible to run it through the machine. There is one foldout on the inside of the book that was inset 1/8” from the face. Additional challenges: after the book was perfect bound, it had to be trimmed on three sides offline in two to three books per lift to prevent chipping at the edges. In addition, a pre-formed pocket had to be affixed onto the inside of the back cover with D-tape. Because the perfect bound book had gone through offline three-knife trimming, the offset sheet that was tipped on earlier was now only loosely protecting the cover. To take it a further step in ensuring the highest quality, our office administrator went to a local fabric store to purchase 90” x 4 yards of fabric for our handwork area. The fabric was used to protect the front cover in case the offset sheet fell off while taping on the pocket. The final product is an impressively high gloss foil book with minimal marks, a D-taped pocket and a foldout page; this is a very high end book for a very high end client. And they said it couldn’t be done.

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