Photobook Hardcover™Binding - Powis Fastback 25 Manual Del Usuario

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Powis Parker offers Photobook covers in a wide range of sizes, colors
and finishes . Contact your Powis Parker sales rep for more information .
With the addition of our Foilfast . printer, you can apply colorful foil
printed titles and artwork to your covers and spines . Fastback Photobook
Hardcovers™ come in two styles: windowed and windowless . The
window is designed to allow the picture on the first page of the book
block to act as a design element for the cover . For more detailed
information on using the Fastback Hardcover Guide, see the Fastback

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Hardcover™ Guide User's Manual .
To create a Photobook, your book block (interior pages) should be
bound with folded sheets of stiff paper called endleaves at the front and
back of the document . The windowed endleaf must be used for the
front of the book if you are using a windowed Hardcover .
Once the book block is bound, assembling your hard cover book can be
done quickly and accurately:

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NOTE: If you wish, you can also add headbands (small cloth strips and
the top and bottom edges of the book's spine) for a more professional
finished appearance .
1 . Measure the bound book block with the Book Width Gauge on the
lower right side of the Hardcover Guide to determine the proper
cover width (Figure 34) .
2 . Open the front and back endleaves and press them flat to flex the
strip on each side . Close the endleaves before proceeding .

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3 . Place an empty Fastback Photobook Hardcover, adhesive side up,
in the Hardcover Guide with the window on the right, and clamp
in place . The top and right edges of the cover should be under the
translucent green stops . If the book width is C or greater, you may
use the green plastic inserts to ensure that the book block does
not shift during binding . Remove the narrow release paper from
the right panel (window side) of the Fastback Hardcover, exposing
a small portion of the super-strong binding adhesive that coats the

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interior hard covers . (Figure 35) .
4 . Set your bound book block upside down in place against the Guide's
translucent green stops and press down to fasten the book block
to the narrow adhesive area (Figure 36) . The window on the book
block and the window on the cover should be aligned and evenly
positioned within the cover .
5 . Carefully lift the right side of the book block and remove the large
release paper from the right panel of the cover (Figure 37) . Roll
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and lower the book block onto the panel and press it against the
panel to secure it .
5 . Remove the remaining release papers from the left side, (Figure 38),
and bring the left panel of the Fastback Hardcover over the book
block and align, with the top and right edges of the cover abutting
the purple stops (Figure 39) . Press straight down onto the text
block and smooth the cover to the spine . Remove the book from
Guide, Open and rub the endleaves to ensure that they are securely
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fastened .