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P.O.
Box 724 • Wilbur, Oregon 97494 (north of Roseburg
off I-5))
(541) 430-6501 • jpb@mcsi.net |
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| With
over 38 years in the printing field, Gail Hanson,
with her husband, Dale, have successfully been operating
Just Perfect Binding, binding books since 2004.
Our
goal is to provide top quality perfect binding at
an affordable price. If you have 1-100 books, check
out the price list to the right. Over 100 books or
a book with a spine larger than 1", give us a
call or email us
for a quote. We have also come up with a tape version
for 1-25 books that works well with the self/home
publisher.
Read about it here.
Please
be sure to let us know when you plan on sending us
your books to bind. That way we can make sure someone
is in the shop to receive them. |
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To
help you better figure out when to send us your books
to bind, here are the dates that we will NOT
be able to do any binding. Thank You.
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prices are for a wrap-around cover and for books
up to 1" in spine thickness and 8.5"
x 11" in size. Must be printed on uncoated
stock. Text must be trimmed down to size but
we will cut the covers to fit the binding machine.
If there is any laminating on the cover or anything
unusual about your job, please call for a custom
quote. Send overs if you need an exact amount.
Shipping is additional. See Guidelines. |
| Spine
under 1/2" |
Spine
1/2" - 1" |
| 1
= $30.00 ($30 ea.) |
1
= $40.00 ($40 ea.) |
| 2=
$40.00 ($20-$40 ea.) |
2=
$50.00 ($25-$50 ea.) |
| 10
= $50.00 ($5 ea.) |
10
= $60.00 ($6 ea.) |
| 20
= $60.00 ($3 ea.) |
20
= $80.00 ($4 ea.) |
| 50
= $75.00 ($1.50 ea.) |
50
= $95.00 ($1.90 ea.) |
| 100
= $100.00 ($1 ea.) |
100
= $120.00 ($1.20 ea.) |
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Over
1" in spine thickness
please call for a custom quote. |
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Call
us.
We are a small, Roseburg area company
and we are interested in your story.
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all know that some jobs will have specs that don't fit
into these general guidelines. Some of the guidelines
are necessary because of the way the machine runs. Following
them as closely as possible will help us to produce
the best looking book possible for your customer. The
glue used in the binder does not adhere as well on some
kinds of coated paper. Please send a blank sample of
the stock and cover to make sure that paper is compatible
with our glue. |
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The
grain of the cover and insides should run parallel
with the spine though the grain on the cover is
more important. Grain-short text reduces
a book's page pull strength and shelf life. Grain-short
covers crack more easily on the edges of the spine
and create a wavy spine. |
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The
binder will grind 1/8" off the spine,
so make sure there is enough of a margin inside
to read the text. Starting the printing 1"
from the spine allows room for the 1/8" grind,
glueline and space for reading. |
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The
perfect binder will jog
the insides and cover to the top
of the book. Let us know if you need your book
jogged to the bottom. On perfed signature sheets,
your book will be jogged to the folded end. |
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There
will be no more than a 3-sided 1/8"
trim all the way around the book.
A book sent to us on 8.5" x 11" 2-up
or 5.5" x 8.5" will need to be skinny
trimmed and therefore the finished book size may
end up being 5.25" x 8.25". |
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For
larger quantites,
500 or more, please send plenty of extras for
setup and losses. 15 covers and 10 guts should
be enough for most jobs but as many as you can
send will ensure you get the exact quantity asked
for. Please advise if you definitely need a set
amount. |
On
smaller
quantities so you don't
have to print alot of overs, you may also
send blank paper that matches exactly
what is in your book (same size, stock
& amount of sheets) and some blank
stock that matches your cover. We only
need one blank text block because the
spine will be cut off after each bind
and used again but the cover is not able
to be used again. You don't have to waste
the toner so blank cover sheets work fine
for the set up. We can get the glue in
balance with the blank covers while also
giving us a pretty close idea as to where
the spine should be. This can help to
assure that we give you the amount of
books you requested. Sending printed covers
for extras allows us to get the spine
in the exact spot. |
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Signatures
need to be collated on top of another, not inside.
Signatures should be perfed at the folds to allow
any air to escape and minimize any chance of wrinkling.. |
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Send
a previous sample
when possible. |
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A
differnet colored slip
sheet is required between each
book unless the text is spine marked. |
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If you send the covers, we figure they are all
good to use so please
check through all of them to make
sure they are good to use. If we see any covers
with obvious imperfections, we will not use them
but we can not guarantee that all bad covers will
be caught and pulled out. |
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Make
a clean guide and gripper mark on a cover. |
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Uncoated
stock will produce the best books.
Text stock weight should be the same throughout
the book (let me know if you need to mix stocks.
eg. 50 sheets of 60# offset and 10 sheets of 20#
bond). |
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For the minimum
width of the cover, measure the
width of your guts, multiply by two (a front and
a back cover) and add the thickness of the spine.
Add at least 1/8" on all 4 sides to allow
for grinding on the spine edge and 3-sided trim
after binding. |
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For
the minimum height
of the cover, we can cut the cover
down to the same size you send us the text as.
We can run a smaller cover on larger text, but
cutting to the size of your text, allows you to
print a cover for a 5.5" x 8.5" book
(run 2 up on an 8.5" x 11" sheet) with
no bleed on a 14" x 8.5" cover sheet.
If you have a thin book, you could even print
the cover on 11" x 8.5" and the book
will trim out a larger smaller, maybe 5 x 7 or
so. The cover size always increases when you have
a bleed on the finished size book. |
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We
can bind
from 1 sheet plus a cover to 1-1/4" thick. |
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Minimum
cover
size: 11" x 7". |
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Maximum
book
size: 12" x 12" |
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Please
no spine printing on books with
a 1/8" spine or less. |
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Unless
you specifiy an
exact amount to run on overs,
we will bind everything you send and charge you
accordingly. |
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Consider
a 80# cover if you plan on laminating
the covers. A 10 pt laminated cover is very stiff
to bend around a thin book. (It is possible to
do though.) The thinner the book, the cover tends
to roll around the spine instead of getting a
crisp bend. |
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If
covers are printed on the inside, the side the
glue will adhere to, it is important that ink,
varnish, and other coatings be left
off the glue area. This includes
side glue as well as the spine. We will regretfully
have to turn down a job with covers printed on
the inside. We know our glue does not stick to
ink/toner. |
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Any
time the cover has heavy
coverage in a dark or metallic
ink, it is best to laminate, UV-coat or dry-trap-varnish
it. For lamination, specify stay-flat laminating
film, and avoid polypropylene because it scratches
too easily. |
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Please
send extra cartons
if necessary for repacking the finished books. |
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Please
add extra time
to your job for delivery. |
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We
do not suggest using 20# bond for the text. It
is inconsistent in the results. We will bind it
if that's what your customer wants but try to
use at least a 60# offset. It would also be best
if you made sure the grain of the cover ran parallel
to the spine. |
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Things
We Need to Know When Doing a Bid. — We need
to have all text blocks come to us already collated,
cut down to the pre-finished binding size with a slip
sheet between each book. |
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you call us for a bid, we will need to know
the following: |
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Quantities |
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Amount
of all pages and sheets (200 pages is 100 sheets
unless they are all printed one sided)~ We like
to know both amounts to make sure there is no
mistake on the actual amount of sheets in your
book. We will figure out the spine width and
price based on the amount of sheets and the
kind of stock used for the text. All blank pages
count in the final count. Click
here to see some paper thicknesses. |
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The
stock the insides are being run on, what size
are they going to come to us and are they in
signatures or text blocks. |
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The
stock the cover is being run on and what size
are they going to come to us, eg. 1 up 12.5"
x 19" or 2 up 19" x 25". |
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Text
needs to come to us cut to size with colored
slip sheets in between each book. The price
includes us cutting the covers down, so you
might as well let us. |
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Are
the covers laminated or anything unusual about
the covers? |
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The
finished size. Is it exact or is that the size
before a 3-sided skinny trim? |
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Anything
unusual or different about the stock or this
book job like foldouts. |
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The
text must come to us collated and 1 up but sometimes
the cover will come to us as much as 4-up. If
you cut down the covers, they need to be cut uniformly
from the press gripper and guide so the cover
will not jump during binding. We will gladly cut
the covers down for you. We do not
cut down the text. |
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| Paper
Thicknesses |
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are some specific papers and their calipers.
Take the caliper and muliply it by the total
amount of sheets (not pages) in your book
to find the text thickness. The binder will
compress the spine a little more when being
bound. |
| Capitol
Bond - |
20#
- .0051 |
24#
-.0059 |
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| Nekossa
Bond - |
24#
- .005 |
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Husky
Offset - |
50#
- .004 |
60#
- .0047 |
70#
- .0054 |
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Luna
Gloss Book - |
70#
- .0032 |
80#
-.0037 |
100#
- .0047 |
Luna
Matte Book - |
60#
- .0036 |
70#
- .004 |
80#
- .0046 |
Centura
Dull Book - |
80#
- .0039 |
100#
- .0049 |
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Centura
Matte Book - |
70#
- .0040 |
80#
- .0047 |
100#
- .0059 |
Accent
Opaque Text - |
60#
- .0046 |
70#
- .0052 |
80#
- .0061 |
Astrobrights
Text - |
60#
- .0048 |
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Royal
Fiber Text - |
70#
- .0054 |
80#
- .0061 |
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| Here
is one paper
company web site where you can look
up a paper that they carry and find the
caliper. |
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