fannyzeng's blog
Board book is one of the most popular project in children's book market. Know the different options of board book to help you print your own board book.
Children's books are one of the most important intellectual products for children's childhood. The author of children's books will also consider the types of books when they creating and designing stories. What kinds of classification can books have, and how can various classifications be realized?
Besides the normally hardcover, softcover and wire-o children's book, we would mainly focus on the most popular children book type this time-- children's board book.
Firstly, the regular board, it is created by hardboard, usually C1S 350gsm thickness pasted together with another same thickness board, make every sheet of paper hard enough, so it is durable for the child, and it normally with lamination to protect the paper. As kids board book usually have size in 6x6 inches or similar like that, even the little baby can hold it,this is one of the reason that it is popular.
Further more, some author or publisher also like to have a hardcover to protect the interior better, therefore hardcover board book was born, some author like it to have padding of outer cover, make it more soft and in high-grade.
And there are more options like to add different finish on the cover, even on the inside pages.
Such as spot glossy, and foiling stamping with different color, or some like adding die cut flap, so when kids reading the book, they can turn over a small card which connect of the book page, but realized there are new things inside, what a pleasure !
More magazine, some sensory material are going on to the book. So make it more vivid, like animal hair, transparent relief glasses animal and labyrinth, hedgehog, spikes, glitter or similar, braille. Or even the mirror and sound bottom all can be add on.Before printing a board book for babies, you need to know about the board book knowledge, so that you can print a satisfied board book.
Board book is a type of children's enlightenment book, which is made of thicker cardboard. The binding way is two sheets of paper are glued into one page and then self-cover or hardcover is glued to be a book.
What ages are board books for?
Board books, usually designed for the age of 0-3 years old toddler. Because between these age of toddler, they are just beginning to know the world through books and love to chew on books. Board book, due to print with thicker cardboard and with special finishing, make it enough durable for toddler to read repeatedly. Besides, to attract these ages of children to read and easier for them to understand. The board books usually designed with simple sentence match bright color illustration.
Is a board book hardcover?
A board book can be a paperback or a hardcover, it depends on your choice. Printing paperback board book, which cover material is the same as inner page making of thicker cardboard. Printing hardcover board book, which cover material is the same as normal hardcover. The material can be cloth, leather, special paper, etc wrapping gray board. Board book with hard cover, which looks more high end and durable.
What are the benefits of board books?
1.Durable
Board book, as a children's enlightenment book designed for babies to use and read frequently. The board book printer to make sure it is enough durable, often selects thicker cardboard to print board books. Then lamination on the cover and finally with specialized board book binding. Even the children with huge habit to bite or tear book, their hard to damage the book.
2.Easy understanding
Considering the babies are starting to read, so when creating a board book, authors often with simple words or sentences match with beautiful and bright color pictures. Thus, board book is easy for children to read and understand.
3.Promote parent-child relationship
Parent, as the first enlightener for children to know the world. When parents selecting board books as enlightenment book to read with child. Emotional explanations and questions from parents, not only can better help children to understand the book content, during parent-child reading, also can promote parent-child relationship.
4.Develop pre-reading and thinking ability
Board books, design with simple words, number, sentences match with color pictures, which are help children to recognition letter and pronounce. Build a foundation for early language development. Besides, some board books combine with flip, puzzle, adventure, etc. link, not only can attract children to read, also can develop their thinking ability. Such as pop-up board book, flip board book, puzzle board book,etc.
What is the difference between board book and picture book?
Board book, usually short and simple word or sentences on each page and match with bright color pictures that help baby readers to understand each page's content. Board book often design in 8-32 pages, smaller and durable, suitable 0-3 age of toddler to read and withstand chew on the book. But a picture book is longer than a board book, usually picture book includes text and pictures on each paper page. A picture book can do as hardcover, saddle stitched, board book, etc format. Picture books, often design in 8-32 pages, but the reading age is over 2 years old.
How many pages is a board book?
A board book usually design in 8-32 pages with simple words or sentence with color pictures. Because too many pages are not convenient for toddler to hold on hand and read. Also, toddler is hard to pay long attention to one thing. If pages are too many, they will be lost interest in it. Unless your page design is very attractive for them.
What is a board book cover?
To make sure a board book is enough strong for children to repeat read and withstand them to throw or tear off on the book. A board book cover, usually is the thicker cardboard same as inner page or a hardcover making with leather, cloth, special paper wrapped gray board.
Which type of paper is suitable to print a board book?
Custom printing board books, often select 250-350gsm C1S (coated one side paper). Because of such kind of paper is enough thicker, not easier to tear off. Besides, the colors printed on C1S paper. The colors are more bright and colorful. Bright colors are more attractive for the toddler readers.
Board book VS hardcover: what is the difference?
Board book is made of thicker cardboard with rounded corner. The binding is each page of two sheets paper are glued together and then self cover or hardcover are glued to be a book. Board book is suitable for the book between 8-32 pages. Usually, board book is applied in children’s book.
Hardcover books have a wide range of paper options, like coated paper, matt art paper, offset paper, special paper, etc. The binding is all sheets are sewn together, then glued on end paper and hard cover. Hardcover is suitable for the book over 20 pages. No matter what type of your book, if you want, you can do as a hardcover.
Proofing is the most important part of printed matter. In a production environment where quality is paramount, the degree of matching between the sample and the final product directly determines the customer's satisfaction with the printing quality.
Proofing is to test the quality of pre-press production and provide characteristic parameters for the pre-press process. Check whether the layout specifications, graphic content, positioning and overprinting of graphics and texts are correct through proofing. And check whether the layout color, level, gray balance, and uniformity meet the quality requirements. At the same time,proofing also provides color values and gray balance values for the pre-press production process, dot gain value and other characteristic parameters.
Proofing includes soft proofing and hard proofing and offset printing proof.
what is a soft proof in printing?
Soft proof, also known as PDF proofing. Proofing is the use of computer-aided color proofing system. The color image can be seen on the display screen, but the paper cannot be obtained. The proofing effect is usually displayed in the form of a PDF file, so also call PDF proofing. Soft Proofing is called Quick Check Method.
what is a hard proof in printing?
Hard proofing is to print the actual sample with paper and ink on the proofing machine. Hard proofing, often with digital proofing for checking the artwork before mass printing. Mass printing often with offset printing. Hard proofing just for checking color and content and is not display binding and post process effect as the final product. Hard proof can display any problem happen on image, text, size, layout, etc.
What's the offset printing sample?
Offset printing sample, also known as physical proofing. This type of sample is printed on an offset printing machine with the same printing material and process. The advantage of offset printing sample is to check the color and paper are used the same as your requirement or not.
why do you need a digital proof for printing?
Digital proofing solves the problem of not needing to make a plate, and the proofing cycle is shorter, which greatly improves work efficiency and greatly saves proofing costs. Hard proof is making for checking artwork before mass printing. That means the clients can check the artwork and make any corrections at this stage. Which can help clients save a lot of extra cost.
When we need to print in large quantities, we have to go through multiple proofing, color adjustment, and proofing again to ensure the final effect. Then the book printing factory takes the final sample and confirms the color with the customer to ensure that the mass printing can be consistent with the proofing. Besides, there are some processes that are more difficult to register, such as uv effect, which needs to be proofed to determine the registration situation, especially for some small text uv.
In which case needs to make offset printing sample?
Usually, when your color requirement is very high. Such as with special Pantone color in your artwork, offset printing sample will show accurately how they appear when printed. Thus, when have high color requirement for printing or when you print high value and large bulk quantity project, offset printing proof is very necessary. Offset printing sample can help you check your color and make sure accurate to copy your artwork as possible as.
Soft proofing VS hard proofing VS offset printing sample
Hard proofs are much more accurate in color calibration than on-screen pdf checks. Also, hard proof is easier to check text, image, logo than PDF proof.
Hard proofs are made before any plates are made for the mass printing. This means the client can inspect the work and make any necessary corrections at this stage. It saves customers extra costs as it is a relatively cheap proofing option. Hard proof is useful if color accuracy is an important factor in your print job. Like custom board books, art book, photo book, etc.
But now, must of the print jobs can do with PDF proof. The PDF proof will show all the information about the job, but with inaccurate colors. This is suitable for print jobs, such as handing out leaflets where color is not important.
The cost of offset printing proof is very high. If your color requirement is not very high, often not recommend making offset printing sample. Besides, make offset printing need to make a plate, it is a very time-consuming choice.
Does all types of printing need to print proof?
In fact, in printing, proofing is not required in all cases. For example, when printing leaflets, economical imposition printing is used. Since multiple customer files are printed together, proofing and coloring cannot be done in this case, so proofing is not required. When the printing quantity is relatively small, there is often no proofing, because the cost of proofing is very high.
Foil stamping is widely used in various of hardcover book, foil stamping also can combine with other finishing. Here are the three hot popular foil stamping on the hardcover book.
It is a special printing process that does not use ink. It is a process of using the template installed on the hot stamping machine to make the printed matter and the hot stamping foil press each other in a short time with the help of a certain pressure and temperature. Then transfer the metal foil or pigment foil to the surface of the printed matter according to the image and text of the hot stamping template.
The products processed by the gilding process have clear and beautiful patterns, bright colors and magnificent visual effects. The combination of gilding and embossing process and other processing methods can play the role of turning stone into gold and finishing point of hardcover book printing, and also show the strong decorative effect of the products:
The positioning and hot stamping anti-counterfeit label needs to transfer the anti-counterfeit information layer on the label to the object to be pasted by heating. Which can not be peeled off and copied, to achieve the anti-counterfeit effect.
There have 3 foiling types for the hardcover book printing, one is flat foiling, the second is debossed foiling, and the third is embossed foiling. Why we will see difference foiling effect on difference hardcover? That is because the procedure for the foil stamping is not the same.
We see the flat foiling on a paper cover the most, that is because the printer will foiling the logo on the paper first, then mounted the paper on the grey board. This is the fast way and cheapest way.
Debossed foiling usually use on the cloth/PU leather cover book printing. For this kind of material, the printer will mount the cloth/PU leather on the grey board first, then foiling the logo on the cover.
Due to special request, there have one more effect-embossed foiling. Normally this finishing contains embossed+foiling, 2 finishing, the price will be higher than the other 2 foiling effect.
When you want to do your cover with foiling logo, you can tell them the size of the foiling logo, because the foling size also will affect the price. We have many difference foiling colors can be chosen for the hardcover book printing. Glossy foiling or matte foiling, flat foiling or debossed foiling or embossed foiling, we can do as your request fully.
