Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Greg" <dfaprinting@y...> wrote:
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> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "dahaal" 
> <dahaal@y...> wrote:
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> > To answer my own question again, I found a thread from October that
> > starts here:
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> > 
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint/message/685
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> > that has some good info on papers and spraying for use in books.
> >
> 
> One thing in one of those links it showed which way the grain of the 
> paper was supposed to go to work well. From looking around, there are 
> not many papers that really would work in a real bound book. Almost 
> every inkjet paper is too thick. My opinion is that around 6 mill is 
> the thickest you would really want to go, else the pages will be 
> difficult to turn, and a 50 page book would be very thick. Mitsubishi 
> has a double sided semigloss paper that is about 6mil, but I've been 
> told it does not work well with pigment inks. That said, I'm still 
> looking.
>

I think for a traditional book binding (sewn signatures or some kind of adhesive binding) 
using a paper with vertical grain would be important. The pages will be more flexible, and 
turn nicely. 

Another option would be to use a flex-hinge binding (some kits use this type), in which 
case you can get away with a thicker, less flexible paper. The previous thread I mentioned 
above has some references to some flex-hinge-type bindings using Innova and 
Hahnemuehle papers. Also, there's a reference to a Moab kit, but I found nothing about it 
on the Moab web site.