The Digital Offset Press
This is how the HP digital press works… It’s worth remembering that the ordinary laser printer works in a very similar way.
The Lithographic Printing Press
This is how an offset litho press works. There are four separate plates, one each for Cyan, magenta, yellow and black (k). Set up time is obviously a lot longer …
How Magazines Used To Be Printed
Just for interest… https://www.facebook.com/share/r/14vXoFk4bB/?mibextid=UalRPS
On The ISBN
The following is a collection of information I have gleaned that may be of interest: 1: An International Standard Book Number (ISBN) is a unique identifier for every single published …
On Trak
Like others, I have been dabbling with books and zines for quite some time. However, it has been only in the last two years that I have started to take …
Single Sheet Zines
I’ve been working with scaled up versions for a variety of projects. This is a 16 page version, printed as a double sided B2 poster and folded into an A5 …
On Image Quality…
Most short run and on-demand printers use a digital press, such as an HP Indigo machine. Essentially these are large, fast, high quality laser printers and the image quality is …
ISCA
Exeter in Lockdown 2020 In Exeter, the Saturday before the first Covid-19 national lockdown, I received a much-anticipated new camera and lens system. With this in hand, the then enforced …
Tabloid Zine:
A Gallery in your Hands I like large format books. I have been experimenting with larger format publications for quite some time. This is the latest iteration of my Tabloid …
Single Page Zine
Brizzle As an example of the ‘book as an object’, the final version of my folded zine ‘Brizzle’ has arrived. It’s made up of images selected from a number of …
Paignton
Backstreets ‘Paignton’ is my book produced during this books and zine project. I’m very grateful to my fellow peers, It has really benefited from the discussions in our WhatsApp group. …
Dressed to Impress
a joint project zine, between me Jojo the photographer in Plymouth. from a couple of years ago. He shot a series of portraits of people wearing clothes the dressed in …
On who is the audience…
Some ten years ago, Martin Parr said that he thought photobooks are the supreme platform for photographers to disseminate their work to a mass audience. This totally resonates with me …
Paper, Paper, Paper
For those interested in hand made books, this book about paper may be of interest. Beautifully designed as well! View in group
Reversible Book
A book you can read both ways. Toward the end of the book and zine project I showed the beginnings of a book of dead peony pictures to my WhatsApp …