Coats and Many Colors

In addition, Chronicle produced four circular die-cuts on the front cover to allow readers to look through it to the endsheet—a concept belonging to Drescher. The endsheet, says Steiner, is an elaborately designed four-color sheet. "The challenge that we have faced with this is to line up the die-cuts precisely with not only the case image, but also to make certain that the correct areas of the endsheet are shown through the die-cut," she outlines. "In addition. Turbulence contains several inserts. At each signature break, there is a laser-cut insert, cut from 80lb. Confetti cover stock-produced by Fox River PaperFox River Paper, which is then paired with a two-color printed vellum insert." The laser cuts were created by LaserExcel and then shipped to Hong Kong for the final binding by South China Printing.

The art was exclusively created by Drescher. Steiner says that by using a new screen color calibration system in cooperation with the film house, Bright Arts of Hong Kong, the artist could see color-accurate images on his computer screen before film was output—cutting down on proofing.

Deltora Quest

by Emily Rodda

According to Karen Fuchs, manufacturing manager at Scholastic, the bleeding edge isn't always the most palpable. Fuchs recently enlisted F.J. Warren in England, the only printer in the world that prints DUFEX, to perform the foil stamping process on its fantasy series, Deltora Quest.

"The process used to be popular with greeting cards," says Fuchs. "But it doesn't have a big market." She describes DUFEX as an "over-printed foil engraving." She says, "It takes a very simple paperback book and makes it look special."

The printer developed the embossing technique to add extra dimensions of light, movement and depth to prints, greeting cards, stationery and commercial applications. DUFEX is produced when images are printed on