JP2005254587A - Book - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a book having a letter or a pattern formed at least at one place of the top edge, the bottom and the fore edge being cut faces, without requiring extra cost or trouble. <P>SOLUTION: In the book having the top edge, the bottom and the fore edge finished by cutting, a solid mark m is printed beforehand so that it extends to the type-page end part of each page S, and the solid marks m of the pages S are connected by the cutting so that they represent the letter or the pattern. Thereby the letter or the pattern is formed at least at one place of the top edge, the bottom and the fore edge. Since only addition of the solid mark to the region positioned at the type-page end of each page is needed on the occasion of preparing a printing plate, any special equipment for printing by ink jet or others and any extra working process are not needed, and the letter or the pattern can be given to the cut face at an extremely low cost. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention belongs to a technical field of a book such as a magazine or a book that is manufactured through a finishing cutting process after binding a printed book.

  Usually, printed materials are inconvenient to store and difficult to read in the state of printed paper, and are often joined to each other to form a so-called book such as a magazine or a book. Thus, when the printed matter is in the form of a book, in the current printing method, a large number of pages are printed on a large sheet of paper at a time, and therefore, a step of folding the printed paper is necessary. In other words, the printed paper is aligned and folded into a signature to make a signature. Next, the signatures are collated according to the order of the pages, and simple ones are bound with a wire or wirelessly bound. And it cuts to a finishing dimension, but in this case, it is common to use a three-way cutting machine that cuts the top, ground, and forehead at once.

The simple bookbinding style described above is called ordinary bookbinding (temporary bookbinding), but after temporarily binding with back glue by binding with a thread, the three sides of the heaven, ground, and small edge are cut off, and the contents are round, square or A bookbinding style that is hardened on Kakuyama and put on a cover with a separate cover is called top bookbinding. In this style, the cover is larger than the contents of both the top and bottom, and there are always dust on three sides, and the face is pasted with glue. Therefore, if the appearance of the cover is not this type, even if the content is a thread binding, it is not a top bound.
The Japan Printing Society, “Printing Engineering Handbook”, Gihodo Publishing, March 30, 1993, p. 773-792

  By the way, there are books such as magazines and book books described above which have advertisements on a given page or a predetermined page. In particular, magazines such as weekly magazines and monthly magazines generally publish many advertisements. Such a book can be viewed as a kind of advertising medium, of which the magazine as an advertising medium is classified by target age, gender, preference, etc. You can expect an advertising effect. Among these magazines, the front cover such as the front cover 4 (the front side of the back cover), the front cover 2 (the back side of the front cover), the front cover 3 (the back side of the back cover) is easily noticeable to the reader and has a great advertising effect. However, the heavens, grounds and foreheads that are the cut surfaces are not used in advertising, although they are easily noticeable around the cover. In the past, a method of performing ink-jet printing on at least one of the top, the ground, and the edge after bookbinding has been considered, but its practicality is poor due to problems in manufacturing cost and manufacturing schedule.

  The present invention has been made in view of the circumstances as described above, and the object of the present invention is to cut at least one of the heavens, the ground, and the forehead, which is a cutting surface, without additional costs and labor. The purpose is to provide books with letters and pictures.

  In order to achieve the above object, the book of the present invention is a book having a top, a ground, and a fore edge that has been trimmed, and a solid mark is printed in advance so as to cover the plate edge of each page. Characters and designs are formed in at least one of the top, the ground, and the forehead by connecting the solid marks on each page to express the characters and designs.

  And in the book which consists of the said structure, it is preferable to print the solid mark of each page per pixel so that the character and picture of a cutting surface may be represented by the collection of pixels.

  The book of the present invention is a book having a top, a ground, and a fore edge that has been trimmed, and a solid mark is printed in advance so as to cover the plate edge of each page, and the solid marks of each page are connected by cutting. It is characterized by the characters and patterns formed in at least one of the top, the ground and the forehead by expressing the characters and patterns. Since it is only necessary to add a solid mark to the part, there is no need for a special device such as ink-jet printing, and there is no need for an extra processing step. it can.

  FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a book according to the present invention, and the illustrated book represents a side-stitched book used as a comic book, for example.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the flat-bound book B has characters (DNP) formed in the top of the cut heaven, ground, and forehead. This character is expressed by printing a solid mark m in advance so as to cover the plate edge of each page, and connecting the solid marks m of each page S by cutting. That is, by cutting the printed solid mark m so that the cutting blade crosses, the solid mark m is exposed at the cutting edge of each page S, and a character is formed by the set of the exposed solid marks m. In this case, in order to reproduce the pixel of the cut surface, that is, the character or the picture matched to the pixel p, the dot is expressed by reducing the resolution. In FIG. 1, vertical and horizontal lines written on the top of the flat binding book B are virtual lines for representing the pixel p.

  The solid mark m in each page S is created as follows. That is, the solid mark m is printed in a pixel unit at a portion located at the end of the plate surface of each page S in order to express the character or the pattern on the cut surface as a set of pixels p. At this time, it is preferable to set the size of one pixel p to 1 to 2 mm in view of the registration accuracy in the printing process, the folding accuracy in the folding process, and the collation accuracy in the bookbinding process.

  In the example shown in FIG. 1, characters are formed in the top portion of the flat-stitched book B, but characters and designs can be similarly applied to the ground portion and the fore edge portion. The book to which the present invention can be applied is not limited to such a flat-stitched book, and may be a book in any form, such as a magazine or a book, as long as it is a book that has a cut and finished heaven, ground and forehead. Needless to say, it is good.

  In this way, the book of the present invention forms characters and patterns on at least one of the top and bottom of the cut surface and the edge, and can be formed simply by adding a solid mark to the printing plate, so far Can use the conspicuous place of the cut surface, which was not used as an advertising space, for advertising with the same feeling as the page posting.

  Magazines such as weekly magazines and monthly magazines are often stacked in stores at the time of sale. Similarly, new books are often stacked in a conspicuous place. Even in such a flat state, the book of the present invention has characters and patterns in at least one of the top, the ground, and the forehead, so that the store can make the book stand out.

  In addition, the book of the present invention can be seen from above even when it is arranged in a standing state on a bookshelf or the like by forming characters and patterns on the top. Therefore, books can be managed by making characters and pictures as identifiable information about the book.

  The embodiment of the present invention has been described in detail above. However, the present invention is not limited to the embodiment described above, and various modifications can be made without departing from the spirit of the present invention. It is natural that there is.

It is explanatory drawing which shows an example of the book concerning this invention.

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B flat binding book S page m solid mark p pixel

Claims (2)

  This is a book with a top, bottom, and forehead that has been trimmed, printed in advance so that it covers the edge of the plate on each page, and connects the solid marks on each page by cutting to express characters and designs A book that features letters and designs in at least one of the heavens, the earth, and the forehead. The book according to claim 1, wherein the solid mark of each page is printed in units of pixels so that the character or design of the cut surface is expressed by a set of pixels.

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