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Assembling Photobooks With the Fastback Photobook Workcell

The Powis Parker Fastback Photobook Workcell isdesigned to allow photographers, image labs and photobook makers toquickly and easily create high quality StitchFree Photo Books. This article will discuss the procedure for assembling your photobooks using your Hardcover Guide.

The Powis Parker Fastback PhotobookWorkcell is designed to allow photographers, image labs and photobookmakers to quickly and easily create high quality StitchFree PhotoBooks. There are essentially three parts to this process. First youneed to prepare your printed pages for binding using the Fastback edgesplitter. Then you need to bind the pages of your document togetherusing the Fastback 25 photobook binder. Finally, you need to use yourhardcover guide to assemble your books. This article will discuss theprocedure for assembling your photobooks using your Hardcover Guide.

Powis Parker offers Photobook covers in a huge number of colors andfinishes. After you have selected the cover for your project you canalso use the Foilfast printer, to add colorful foil graphics and titlesto your cover or spine. Fastback Photobook Hardcovers come in twostyles: windowed and windowless. The window is designed to allow thepicture on the first page of the book block to act as a design elementfor the cover.

To create a Photobook, your book block (interior pages) should be boundwith folded sheets of stiff paper called endleaves at the front andback of the document. The windowed endleaf must be used for the frontof the book if you are using a windowed Hardcover. Headbands can alsobe added to the edges of your book to give your photobooks a moreelegant look. Headbands are designed to make your book look like an oldfashioned stitched book.

After your book block is bound, assembling your hard cover book can bedone quickly and accurately. Here is a quick six step process forassembling your photobook:

1. Measure the book block of your photobook using the measurement tool provided on your Powis Hardcover Guide.

2. Open the front and back endleaves and press them flat to flex thestrip on each side. Close the endleaves before proceeding.

3. Place your empty Photobook, in the Hardcover Guide with the windowon the right. Now clamp the photobook in place. The top and right edgesof your book should be under the green stops on the guide. Remove thenarrow section of release liner from the right panel (window side) ofthe book, this will expose a section of the adhesive that is used toattach the endleaves into your hard covers.

4. Now, turn your book block upside down and press it against theHardcover Guide's transparent green stops. Press it down to stick thebook to the adhesive area that you exposed in step 3. The window on thebook block and the window on the cover should be aligned and evenlypositioned within the cover.

5. Next, gently lift the right side of the book's contents and peelback the rest of the release liner from the right side of the cover.Roll and lower the book block onto the panel and press it against thepanel to secure it.

6. Finally, peel off the remaining release liners from the left side,and bring the left panel of the Fastback Hardcover over the book blockand align, with the top and right edges of the cover abutting thepurple stops. Press straight down onto the text block and smooth thecover to the spine. Remove the book from Guide, Open and rub theendleaves to ensure that they are securely fastened.

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