Paper & Substrates

What you print on. Weight, grain, pH and surface decide how a sheet takes ink, how it folds, and whether the book still opens in thirty years.

Tools 5 Stages Print, Bind

Paper made from cotton fibre: soft, strong, acid-free, and the classic letterpress stock.

Sheet formed by hand in a mould: irregular, deckle-edged, and unlike anything machine-made.

Heavy uncoated paper between about 200 and 400 gsm: the stock for cards, covers and boxes.

Laminated grey board, 1.5 to 3 mm thick, cut to make the covers of a hardback.

The folded sheet that joins the text block to the cover, and hides the join.

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Note. Ranges are conventional trade figures. Check your own equipment against its documentation before relying on any number here.

Context

Paper in the workshop