Famous Forum: Exploring the Root Cause of the Binding Quality Problem (Part 2)

Fifth, the communication between the publisher's designers and the binding processing factory

In the past few decades, people engaged in design (especially beauty editing) in the publishing industry often worked with the technicians of the bindery factory. The teacher pays attention to each other and absorbs the opinions of the binding workers to improve and improve the design plan so as to achieve the consistency between the design expectations and the completion of the product (ie, the agreement of the imagination and the destination). We have made many high quality products that have won international and domestic awards. There are many well-known US-made artists who have taken the initiative to make friends with the binding factory and masters, to learn binding techniques from them, and to learn about various techniques to better design more excellent works. However, in recent years, this kind of communication has been too little. At present, some younger American editors generally only pay attention to news on the computer, and they are not diligent to go to the factory to learn and learn from the masters the knowledge that is not available on the computer, and forget about practice. The truth of true knowledge. Some people think that they are engaged in designing, are artists of the future, go to the factory to learn knowledge from the workers, and make themselves lose a lot of money and learn a lot less. Therefore, there are many problems in the design, selection of materials on the size specifications, etc. Here are a few phenomena:

1.Disregarding the value and effect of the bibliography, blindly pursues the wireless glue binding processing

The book's use (reading) value, preservation value, and the correct choice of binding process methods and types of binding materials are directly related. Generally, if there are high-grade books with preservation value, they should choose the long-preserved fine dressing method; the binding material must also match the grade of the book in order to obtain the desired effect. Generally, the books can be selected by the universal method; the simple and short use time. The books and magazines can use the simplest method of installation. However, it can be seen from the book market and the national publication situation that there are a number of wireless glue bindings. At present, it accounts for more than 60% of all books. The author does not deny that wireless glue has many advantages, such as fast publishing, short cycle, suitable for modern rhythm, and low labor cost, etc.; but this processing method also has many deficiencies, such as 1 resin powder dry agent easy Aging, not easy to long-term preservation; 2 thick books are not easy to read and variants: 3 bond is not strong, easy to page, break, etc., become the most binding book quality of the installation.

However, some publishers are eager to publish their books and want to reduce costs, and the cost-effective thick books that should be booked in hard copies or hard-covered in hard copy are simply made into a thick paper-backed wireless glue-bonded book. As a result, the two sides tangled up with each other. Hebei has a publication Du to do a 32-open (A5) size, 4Bmm thickness of the book, indirectly asked the author can process wireless glue fixed paperback? At that time, the author replied: "No! Or hardcover, or 2-3 volumes to make a perfect binding....

According to the complexity and variability of this profession, it is impossible to adapt to modern development without bringing this talent to the agenda.
It is understood that there are more than 100,000 assembly and binding workshops in the country, and staff engaged in binding jobs account for 3/3 of the total printing industry (prepress, printing, and postpress), a huge professional team, There is a serious problem of talent training that should not be a problem. Here are some examples for everyone to understand.

1. The personnel do not train. It is understood that there are more than 100,000 wage earners (sisters) in the country, and there are only a few thousand in the suburbs of Beijing. When they enter the factory, they work and do not study or train. They are learning while doing some. Not even the master.

2. Some companies will cultivate talent and improve product quality and stand up and prefer to spend money to ask customers to forgive, but also do not want to spend money to train workers to learn technology and produce results.

3. Some business leaders and bosses are afraid to train the workers to learn technology and understand that "one will be able to change jobs as soon as they have completed training."

4. Some leaders also do not want workers to go out to study during their term of office, fearing that they will be re-elected to the next leader to “cook a meal” and so on.

With such an idea, how can the practice improve the quality of workers, cultivate talents and improve product quality?

In short, the various quality problems that emerged during the binding of printed materials, especially the page dropouts reflected in the adhesive bonding in recent years, the indefiniteness of the book, misprints, broken cores, etc., are all appearances. In many ways, we must fundamentally understand, treat, research, and propose solutions so that we can catch up with the pace of society and truly achieve results in improving product quality.