Digital BW, The Print

Check out the premium kit here at red rock paper

http://www.redrivercatalog.com/acc/bookbinding.htm#

The flex hinges are available by themselves.  They seem pretty
expensive to me.  I thought about cutting my inkjet paper into 1"
strips and using some sort of archival tape to make a flexible hinge.
Tape to the print and the use hole punch to make holes in the 1" strip
for post bound album.

Kolo also has post albums that you can print directly to paper instead
of album refills.

http://www.kolo.com/



--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "dahaal"
<dahaal@y...> wrote:
>
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Greg"
<dfaprinting@y...> wrote:
> >
> > --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "dahaal" 
> > <dahaal@y...> wrote:
> > >
> > > To answer my own question again, I found a thread from October that
> > > starts here:
> > > 
> > > 
> > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint/message/685
> > 28
> > > 
> > > 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.
>