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Re: [BKARTS] Question about titling books -- from a student
April,
Check to see if there is a library binder in your area. They can emboss or
stamp you book spine for you before you attach it to the block. If there
isn't a library binder close, check your local religious shops as they
usually have a machine to stamp bibles with and might be willing to stamp
your cover for a small fee. Also, some scrapbooking shops offer
embossing/stamping of scrapbook covers so you may want to check with your
local scrapbooking shops also.
Hope this helps.
Jackie
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From: "april" <aprilhl@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <BOOK_ARTS-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2008 8:05 PM
Subject: [BKARTS] Question about titling books -- from a student
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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