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The paper: an unmissable in the print creation

Select the best paper to their document is paramount, especially for customizable notebooks. To choose the best one that suits, several criteria must be taken into account: what life for my paper, for what use? According to answers, printing companies offer you the appropriate solutions.

But first, back to the creation of paper. This particular matter may be :

• pure cellulose
• paper pulp without wood containing at least 95% cellulose
• paper pulp with traces of wood from 20% to 40%
• paper pulp with containing from 40% to over 70% wood

With these paper pulps comes the creation of a particular print paper. Here is a list of major papers used in printing:

• Coated paper: application of minerals and binders on the surface, allowing the absorption of ink quickly and evenly for superior print quality
• Offset paper: adding elements to improve opacity and whiteness characteristics. Mainly, this type of paper is use for office and writing paper like diary, envelopes, business cards…
• Uncoated: the paper doesn’t receives treatment or finishing for better resistance of the surface
• Recycled paper: 60% of the raw material comes from waste paper and used cardboard
• Certified paper: for example, certifications PEFC and FSC

The paper use in the creation of customizable notebooks

Customizable notebooks Mypaperbook be made up of several types of paper. For the inner pages it’s an offset paper. As for the cover, is composed of paper named Wibalin by Winter. To give this excellence to the customizable notebooks, paper need some transformations:

• the weight (120g), for strength and a better feeling to the touch
• cutting, to obtain a A5 format printing,
• create a linage right

Note, customizable notebooks are made up paper bleached without chlorine (French made) by methods that respect the environment and people.

What means « sustainable development »?

The term sustainable develoment, or « développement durable » in fench, emerged in the 80’s. It has democratized at the third Earth Summit in Rio in 1992. Since then, the international community recognizes sustainable development as an important goal for nations. It’s also an important way to protect environment and thus the Earth.

To better understand how it relates, here are the three foundations that compose the sustainable development:

• Economy: developing economically efficient
• Ecology: a development environmentally respectful
• Social: a socially equitable development

The Norwegian Prime Minister, Ms Gro Harlem Brundtland (1987), sums up the sustainable development with the sentence: “Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”.

Since the 80’s decade, the sustainable development has continued to grow to become a central point for governments and population today.

Manufacturing customizable notebooks respectful of the people and the environment

The manufacture of customizable notebooks Mypaperbook are in this logic of sustainable development. In fact, the operating in our workshop is specific and we use certified materials to create notebooks. Everything is done to protect people and environment.

Certified papers
The paper used to make customizable notebooks is:

• chlorine-free
• the coverage in Wibalin by Winter is certified Reach
• the creation of notebooks takes place at the Manufacture d’Histoires Deux-Ponts which is certified Imprim’Vert

Production “Made in France”
Production takes place near Grenoble in the middle of the Alps. Moreover, we control the production process to guarantee notebooks respectful of environmental and people. We also preserve the French know-how in the creating of printed.

80 years of expertise
Since 1935, the expertise of our craftsmen enhances paper in all its forms. Customizable notebooks Mypaperbook are the fruit of this excellence travel through the ages and generations.

Customizable notebooks, putting your logo on the coverage to make the difference

Several printing techniques can mark the cover of a book. As part of the customizable notebooks, we use: hot stamping and embossing.

Gilding
Gilding is a common technique in printing. Make it possible to mark a form on any paper with a hot iron previously shaped with the desired logo. The logo can be colored by affixing plastic film coated pigments. By pressure and heat, the film transfers its pigments to the contours of the form to give the color of your logo.

Embossing
Embossing is a technique to play on shadows and reliefs. With this technique, the notebooks feature to customize the effects of textures for visual finesse. The embossing can give various reports by the practices:

• “embossage”: print “positive” that gives relief in hollow on the pattern
• slabbing: print in the mass that gives volume to the ground (in fact the highlight)
• sculptural: mixing the two previous techniques texture to have several levels of texture

Customizable notebooks, a very personal signature with your initials

In our workshops, the stamping of the initials is done traditionally. A craftsman put together print character on an iron, one by one. A film is then inserted between this iron and the paper which be stamped. Then, by the pressing of the artisan’s hand, the color and the initials transfer on your Mypaperbook notebook.

The machine used for the work is among the smallest of our workshops. Surprising as it may seem, this is initiels machine can stand on an office table. Also it’s easy to carry it with its “featherweight” of 60 kg (appromximate). You can choice among two fonts to make your initials: Normal Grotesk and Diethelm Antiqua . Now, you’re free to make your own Mypaperbook customizable notebook.