RobL Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 (edited) Been hitting a bit of a block on aircraft models recently, I've got a 1/72 Italeri Harrier nearly finished, but just can't seem to get enthused about that final push to the finish line. So, I've turned to doing other things. One of which has been printing and binding an e-book that I recently bought. The book was originally printed in the mid-late 80s, isn't all that widely available, and can be quite expensive to buy second hand. So I thought I'd have a go at making my own "hard copy" as I don't have a decent enough tablet to make reading the e-book version easy - my sub £100 Tesco Hudl 2 is 5 years old, only 8" anyway and ageing badly! Tools used - HP inkjet colour printer. Hot glue gun. Two "planks" of wood and 2 G-clamps - to hold the pages together whilst putting hot glue on the spine. Spray Mount adhesive - to mount the cover art to the cover. 300gsm A3 sheet of card - for the cover. 600gsm A4 sheet of card - used to make the outer spine. A4 printer paper - for the internal pages and cover colour art pages. 1m x 45cm roll of "sticky back plastic" - to cover the cover. How very Blue Peter! Steel rule. Craft knife. Plastic chisel used for defrosting the fridge - I used that to "scribe" the bend point in the front/back part of the cover. That line you see in the 1st photo 5mm in from the spine. Professional book binders use something called a bone folder. Wish I had been able to afford to buy some US Letter size paper (also known as quatro size) as that's the actual size of the book, but it was prohibitively expensive. Also wish I could find a decent resolution version of the cover art, as it's supposed to be a wrap around cover, sadly I couldn't, so I just used the front/back pages of the e-book, and left the spine blank. Result, not bad considering it's my first ever attempt - Edited July 14, 2020 by RobL 14 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsairfoxfouruncle Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 Thats pretty kool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brown Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 Being in the copier/printing industry I'm amazed about how much that book must have cost in ink alone! Well done though! Rick. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobL Posted July 15, 2020 Author Share Posted July 15, 2020 (edited) Ink didn't cost as much as you may think, my HP printer is about 10 years old, and uses different cartridges to most of their newer printers. Plus I buy them from a company online that makes "compatible" cartridges at dirt cheap prices. I started with a half full set of black/CMY, ran out half way through, and only had to buy one new set of black/CMY to finish the print run, at a cost of... ...£16. Edited July 15, 2020 by RobL 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobL Posted December 19, 2020 Author Share Posted December 19, 2020 (edited) Made myself another book from a PDF today. Not as good as my first, but then that wasn't exactly publishing for sale quality either. It is surprising just how easy it is though. Kirsty Allsop can kiss my asthma, I am the arts and crafts god! Edited December 19, 2020 by RobL 2 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOUSTON Posted January 6, 2021 Share Posted January 6, 2021 very good effort. looks fine to ME. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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