[BKARTS] Question about titling books -- from a student

[april <aprilhl@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all!  I'm trying to figure out the best way to title/stamp/emboss a  
book, and if there's any way to do this inexpensively.  I looked into  
using leather stamps, but I can only find uppercase leather stamps, which  
really bugs me.  (I'm sure you guys understand typography pickiness.  :) )  
The closest thing I've found to what I'm looking for is using an inkjet  
printer to print on book cloth and then use embossing powder and a heat  
gun to get it to stay -- but I don't have a working inkjet printer right  
now, only a laser printer.  Any ideas for a way to permanently letter  
cloth for a spine?  I'll be taking intro to printing at school this fall,  
so I could use the letterpress then, but that's a ways off.  I've got  
stuff for stenciling, but I'm concerned about that not being very crisp.   
(I'm not the best stenciler).
I'm not super picky about font -- serif or sans-serif will be fine -- just  
anything but solid uppercase!

If nothing else I'm going to give up and make laser-printed tags on  
cardstock to fix to the front of a book, but I'd really like some way to  
stamp/emboss/stencil the spine without spending a ton of money.  If it  
comes down to that -- any suggestions for how to make this more  
permanent/less tacky looking?

is this possible?

thank you so much in advance!

~april

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