Perfect Bound: Fit for a "King"
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Brian Howard
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That’s Deep
Once the design of the embossing was finalized, Thomson-Shore had to nail the depth of the embossing. “We have some material that stamps very easily, and other material where we don’t get as deep of a stamp as we like,” says Spall. “We have a variety of techniques that we can employ: adjusting the amount of pressure, using a different die material—a magnesium die vs. a copper die will give you a different strike—putting additional material underneath the board so that when we stamp down, there’s a little more of a spongy impact underneath the cover which will let you push down further into the cloth material.”
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- Companies:
- Book Expo America
- Thomson-Shore Inc.
- Places:
- Dexter, MI
- San Francisco
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