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Graphic Design Book
Graphic and brand designers whose work ends on a press.
Grams per square metre is pounds times 1406 over the basis area.
$14.99
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| Pages | 141 |
|---|---|
| Editions | mono, colour |
| Variants | right hand, left hand |
| Devices | reMarkable 2, reMarkable Paper Pro, reMarkable Paper Pro Move, Kindle Scribe, Kindle Scribe Colorsoft, Supernote Manta, Boox Note Air, A4 Print, US Letter Print |
| Format | Hyperlinked PDF, one file per device |
| Updates | Included, for as long as the template exists |
- 141 pages filed by job - eight jobs, each with a brief, a grid, two thumbnail sheets, a type specimen, a colour build, a print spec, a proof log and a press check
- The print specification: trim, bleed, safe, stock, grain, inks by side, folding, binding, quantity, proof and delivery - every field present, every value yours, and a printer-confirmed line to sign
- The paper page prints the arithmetic instead of a conversion table: gsm equals pounds times 1406 divided by the basis area in inches, with the six basis sizes beside it
- Which is why 80 lb text and 80 lb cover are different papers - the basis size differs by category, so no single conversion exists and a table would be wrong for anything not in it
- Grain: fold with it and the fold is sharp, fold across it and it cracks, and a book bound across the grain will not stay open
- Colour builds record all four spaces - process, screen, hex and the mixed-ink reference - plus the substrate it was approved on, which is the field everybody leaves out and then argues about at the press
- A mixed ink and a four-colour build are separate fields, not a conversion, because a mixed ink is mixed and cannot be matched from one
- A press check sheet you fill in standing at the machine, ending in a signature - because approved to run is a claim somebody has to make
What is inside
Filed by job, and the job ends at the press.
Eight jobs, each running in the order the work happens: brief, grid, two thumbnail sheets, type specimen, colour build, print specification, proof log and press check. Plus a type specimen library, a colour library, printer records, twenty-four layout sheets, a decision log and four reference pages. 141 pages, all linked.
WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT
· The print specification has every field a job needs and not one printed value. Trim, bleed, safe margin, stock, grain, inks by side, folding, binding, quantity, proof and delivery — with a printer-confirmed line to sign, because that is the conversation this sheet exists to have
· The paper page prints the arithmetic instead of a conversion table: gsm = pounds × 1406 ÷ the basis area in inches, with the six basis sizes beside it. That is why 80 lb text and 80 lb cover are different papers, and why a table would be wrong for any category not in it
· Grain, printed once and properly: fold with it and the fold is sharp, fold across it and it cracks, and a book bound across the grain will not stay open
· Colour builds record all four spaces — process, screen, hex, and the reference for a mixed ink — plus the substrate it was approved on. The same build is a different colour on coated and uncoated, and the substrate is the field everybody leaves out
· A mixed ink and a four-colour build are separate fields rather than a conversion, because a mixed ink is mixed and cannot be matched from one
· A press check sheet you fill in standing at the machine, ending in a signature. "Approved to run" is a claim somebody has to make
· Printer records with fields for their bleed, their safe margin and their rich black — because those are their numbers, and the whole reason none is printed here
· Measure counted in characters rather than millimetres, with the 45-to-75 range credited to Bringhurst as a starting point and not a rule
· No named colour system appears anywhere. Those are trademarked and licensed, so the sheet asks for the reference your own library gives an ink
· No branding inside. You are buying paper, not an advert.