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Paper Matters: Commerical Printing Paper Selection Tips and Guidelines You may not think that paper choice for your printing project doesn 't make a difference. In actuality, choosing the correct paper can make quite the difference. Your paper choice can significantly affect the look and feel of your finished product. However, when it comes down to choosing the correct paper you are often faced with an overwhelming number of paper products to choose from. This is why choosing the correct paper…

There has been a grand total of 129,864,880 books published ever. All of these fall into the category of essential questions that I have learned. Some of the books also contain some of the essential questions that I have found interesting. This year in english class we read Night by Elie Wiesel and the novel contains the essential question of seeking justice and bearing witness about terrible things that have happened like the holocaust and to promote what happened so the act can be prevented…

Although the 3-D printing industry did not see much growth in the first twenty years of its existence, the recently rapid development of the technology has led to breakthroughs within the field of medicine. Old fashioned and impersonal prosthetics are slowly being replaced by custom, innovative replacements. The 3-D printer is an incredibly efficient tool that doctors have begun using to create personalized solutions for problems that the medical field previously had no solutions for. Johnson…

With many calling the death of the traditional newspaper imminent, journalists and editors are forced to make risky decisions to stay afloat in a changing news marketplace and media environment. Competing with blogs and social media that can generate more content at much lower margins, owners are pressuring their newspapers to cut costs and produce content by any means necessary . In his article “Ethical Values and Quality Control in the Digital Era”, Bob Steele argues that the journalistic…

Newspapers are on the verge of extinction as information is digitalized and uploaded onto the world wide web for everyone to access. In only a few seconds, data can be retrieved solely from fingertips. No longer are people writing love letters or sending postcards to each other but instead sending digital texts that arrive almost immediately. Information travels instantly whereas millenniums ago, it had to travel by feet and would take forever to reach its destination. This digital age has…

“Illustrated papers have become a feature. Every newspaper stand is covered with them. Every railroad is filled with them. They make the battlefields, the coronations, the corruptions of politicians, and naval heroes. They are, in brief, the art gallery of the world.” That was Frederic Hudson’s perception of the illustrated newspaper, emphasizing the importance of pictorial reporting in a newly developed nation. Pictorial reporting was introduced to America by Frank Leslie, giving way to a…

Paper or Digital Versions Many do not ponder whether or not we would trade our paper copies of books for digital versions. Yet, this is a topic that should be very relevant in a world where technology can do anything for you. Replacing paper copies of books with digital versions could come with many problems both for the author and the reader, taking away the joy from reading. Apps that sell digital books could lose a lot of money on every book they sell. Not to mention how many problems…

In this chapter, I will be exploring the history of Penguin and their book covers/jackets, looking at the layouts and developments of design as the years progressed. Subsequently, I will be primarily looking towards Phil Banes’ Penguin by Design: A Cover Story 1935-2005, as, while it is not a comprehensive catalogue of the entirety of Penguin’s cover history, it contains the main pathways, showing the development of the brand along with their changes in design and the new series’ and prints that…

the work overload. As a result, the printing industry also needs to develop and grow to better serve the businesses that rely on its services. The printing industry has thus increased technology development, helping ease the growing demand of prints. In addition, new technology such as 3D printing helps organizations in more aspects than just simple prints.…

therefore increase the potential of the Espresso Book Machine becoming widespread. Overall the Espresso Book Machine is a fascinating prospect when it comes to new methods of printing. Although its performance on a large scale may not be practical, this machine has many features that could have a viable use in the future of printing. The potential for customizable books, and self-publishing opportunities alone could launch this technology into the realm of widely commercialized machinery. At…