No problem Peter
Craig,
Can you elaborate on the problems experienced with cover thickness and dimensions. This is a new one on me?
We produce circa five books per month - never heard of this issue.
250gsm is actually very light, so is far easier to work with vs. hard cased.
Thanks
Peter
Good morning Peter
What you say is very true, the 250gsm with the laminate is not a heavy board by any stretch of the imagination. It is all about balance, thickness of the book vs thinkness of the cover, particularly when the perfect binding is being done by a craftsman, there are actually print finishers in our area who will not take on any perfect bound project with a cover above the spec we are talking about here no matter how thick the book is! The reason being that they consider a perfect bound book without a square back as being sub-standard.
You are correct in pointing out the thickness of the text leaves - here we are looking at less than 1.5mm for a 20 pager, then the cover will just about take it over 2mm, so not enough to get a square back unless the number of text pages are increased or the cover is very thin indeed.
At the end of the day I guess it comes down to how important such details are to Kreatif and the end client.
Hope this makes my comments a little clearer.
ATB, Craig.