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Re: Best paper for custom-bound photo books

2006-01-10 by Greg

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "dahaal" 
<dahaal@y...> wrote:
>
> To answer my own question again, I found a thread from October that
> starts here:
> 
> 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint/message/685
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> 
> that has some good info on papers and spraying for use in books.
>

One thing in one of those links it showed which way the grain of the 
paper was supposed to go to work well. From looking around, there are 
not many papers that really would work in a real bound book. Almost 
every inkjet paper is too thick. My opinion is that around 6 mill is 
the thickest you would really want to go, else the pages will be 
difficult to turn, and a 50 page book would be very thick. Mitsubishi 
has a double sided semigloss paper that is about 6mil, but I've been 
told it does not work well with pigment inks. That said, I'm still 
looking.

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