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Gail Stiffe

Australia
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I have been making handmadepaper for over 15 years and teaching adults and children for the last 10 years. I can answer most questions about papermaking and many about bookbinding. The books I make from handmade paper and are usually simple bindings with paper covers.

Stuart Loewen

Canada
Available
Paper physics, dimensional stability, curl, colour registration, stack-lean, slack & baggy edges

Diane Mendez

U.S.
Available
Expert knowledge of both printing and publishing specifications. Familiar with the printing process from order taking to bindery. Extensive experience with self-publishing from creating manuscript to publishing/printing. Skilled in QuarkExpress, InDesign, PhotoShop, Illustrator, Adobe Acrobat, MS Office and several minor applications.

Rupert Evans

U.S.
Available
printing and binding books. I wrote a book on this subject in 1995 (it is still in print) and am in the process of writing another. I use a scanner, Hewlett-Packard model 8100 laser printer, Xerox copier, etc to print books (and other items), and do most of the binding with adhesives (cold and hot), rather than sewing.

Tom Rouze

U.S.
On Vacation
returns 11/30/2009
I can answer questions about printing- offset, flexo, hot-stamp. I can give you direction in the proper way to set up electronic files-prepress and production art. I can give you help with package design and label design. I can assist you with solving interdepartmental problems.

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2009-11-21 Help printing my book:

Format/Page/Page Layout/Letter Size/Landscape/Divide Page/2 columns/one row This is a common sequence which leads to printing two pages on one side of a sheet. This will allow you to view both pages at

2009-11-20 Help printing my book:

After you have inserted the text tell your software program to tell your printer to "print on both sides, to "divide the page" and to "print as a booklet." This will produce the pages in proper sequence

2009-11-19 Unbindng a Hard Cover:

Get access to a guillotine paper cutter, of the type which can cut a ream or more of paper at one time. Every quick printer and almost every book binder has one. Use it to cut off the spine of the book

2009-11-11 Cutting of hard covers:

You need a guillotine paper cutter. Not the type which cuts single sheets of paper, but the type which has a motor or a long lever which can cut up to 500 or so pages at a time. Every quick printer has

2009-11-10 Student Newspaper publishing:

I am sorry that I am not familiar with Microsoft Publisher. I have used Word Perfect and Microsoft Word to produce newspapers on tabloid (11 x 17 inch) paper. If you want a higher end publishing program

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