Notebooks &
Journals
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Notebooks & Journals
Notebooks are used to keep important memos, which is now popularized for various purposes such as scraps, school note, diaries and for other memorandum, its classic recording nature is still ongoing among many people. It is available with various stocks for both cover and inner pages, a unique personal notebook or corporate/institutional emphasis on branding can be produced. It is about time to make the customized notebooks to keep your important life parts remembered.
Notebook branding methods
UV Printing
If you’re looking to include a range of colors, a specific Pantone for your design/brand, sweeping gradients or full color photography, a printed cover is by far your best option. This allows you to break away from just your company logo, letting your graphic designers run free with the design. In this way, you can combine illustration and text, imagery to their best advantage with an exceptionally cost effective product. Depending on your desired finish, UV has numerous variations in printing technique.
For a hardcover notebook we would recommend printing on a crisp white paper stock, before laminating it with a soft touch finish which both protects the book, gives it a smooth feel, and brings out the colors. If you wanted a matt card glossy, we wouldn’t recommend any finish, allowing the inks to seam into the card giving a good depth to the print. If you’re looking to print onto a PU faux leather, we can digitally print full color imagery directly onto the PU giving a soft feel without the need for laminate or card.
De-bossing
De-bossing, or blind embossing, is one of the simplest and most popular ways to brand a notebook. To get the de-bossed effect, both heat and pressure are combined, impressed onto the notebook by a brass bit milled with your logo. This is called a die-stamp. We have both manual and pneumatic machinery to cope with any quantity you might have in the shortest of time frames. We leave the die-stamp a little cooler on our hardcover leather notebooks, which leaves a slick and subtle impression, and can cope with fine detail.
Soft leather notebooks are de-bossed a little bit deeper then hard leather, as the soft leather springs back, which is better for de-bossing large areas. Both fabric and Moleskine style PU notebooks achieve a similar finish, as the book cloth material is stretched over greyboard. It is the greyboard that is compressed, with the material forming over the curve.
Screen Printing
Screen printing is a printing technique whereby a mesh is used to transfer ink onto a substrate, except in areas made impermeable to the ink by a blocking stencil. A blade or squeegee is moved across the screen to fill the open mesh apertures with ink, and a reverse stroke then causes the screen to touch the substrate momentarily along a line of contact. This causes the ink to wet the substrate and be pulled out of the mesh apertures as the screen springs back after the blade has passed.
Using different layers of ink can build up a multicolored image, however the result may not be as fine or intricate as UV printing, and certainly won’t be as precise as CMYK printing and laminating. Using screen printing, however, is beneficial on larger runs where it is much more cost effective than UV printing. You can also get a much larger array of different colored inks for screen printing, such as exact Pantone, metallic inks as well as novelty inks such as Ultra-Violet inks (that you can see in the dark) all the way through to bright neon inks and inks with glitter inside.
