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Customizable notebooks Mypaperbook : behind the scenes

02/08/2016
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Customizable notebooks Mypaperbook make their cinema…

A surprise guest invested our workshops to capture a few Mypaperbook customizable notebooks’ slices of life. Who could it be, who are we talking about? Small clues to its identity: it loves the spotlight, it’s rather high-tech, it always had very specific “goals”. You found? No more mystery, this is a camera. During several hours, it filmed the daily life and work of our craftsmen in carrying customizable notebooks Mypaperbook. Immersion in our production workshops heart, to lift the veil surrounding the beautiful realization of our customizable notebooks…

Details of the manufacturing excellence

This video was made in our workshop in Grenoble, a town in the heart of the Alps in France, and shows the universe and the different stages of our notebooks’ production. You can, among other things, to discover “modern” machines and “old-fashioned”, like the Original Heidelberg aged over 60 years-old who realizes the amazing marking on Mypaperbook’s covers. But also watch our craftsmen’s savoir-faire and expertise in paper handling and customizable notebooks’ assembly.

To give you an overview and help you to decrypt the follow operations, here are the three keys to understand of manufacturing excellence:

  • printing, assembly and binding of binders (“cahiers”) with a specific technique named perfect binding or in French “dos carré collé”
  • cutting, marking and the creation of the crease covers to decrease the resistance to bending, and to obtain a neat fold
  • the body assembly notebooks (binders assembled) with the coverage that will be pasted-paper on the back

Soon, Mypaperbook you open new pages of its history with new videos and pictures. For now, this video is to be found on our networks Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin and also on Youtube. If you enjoyed this video, please share it!

Customizable notebooks discover the Luxepack Monaco exhibition 2015

05/11/2015
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Customizable notebooks display at Monaco

Mypaperbook and his team were present at the luxury exhibition and packaging the 21th, 22th and 23rd October at the Grimaldi Forum at the center of Monaco. Our customizable notebooks, on the stand of the Manufacture d’Histoire Deux-Ponts, received a warm reception from visitors. Our customizable notebooks have made an amazing entrance in the world of luxury and luxury packaging, thanks to its colour slice and its very classy black cover. An irresistible desire to grasp all 7 notebooks collection have often grazed the spirit of our dear visitors, who came away with Mypaperbook’s entire communication as a present.

Mypaperbook had come to expose and allow to do discover its new customizable notebooks: done to our customizable notebooks, have been sold and have won the heart of many visitors! Mypaperbook is on its way to Paris, and will be back next year to Luxepack 2016, always in company with Manufacture d’Histoires Deux-Ponts. Thanks to all Luxepack’s teams and to all participants for these three days filled in emotion.

Customizable notebooks, a great family’s history… of trades

25/10/2015
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Several families of trades involved in the creation of customizable notebooks Mypaperbook. Every step and every craftsman follow in a specific order to guarantee quality and excellence for each notebooks.

Initially, the project manager receives and deals with the customer’s request. He is also the ressource person between you and our craftsmen throughout the manufacturing process. Then, each art craft comes shaping, based on its know-how and expertise, the pages of your notebooks. The production manager is as for him, the conductor of this beautiful mechanics.

Customizable notebooks: production steps

The craftsmen are brought together depending on the families trades. Here is a short list about trades used for the manufacture of customizable notebooks Mypaperbook.

1. R & D: research laboratory
When you want a special project, the research laboratory team discusses the feasibility of your project. They realize the dummy printing to visualize the appearance and production conditions. It’s also a way to preview the notebooks that you’ve imagined.

2. The prepress
They receive, verify, validate and prepare files for production. In this way, the risk of printing defects are limited and the quality is preserved. This step in particular enable to have a clear file of your logo to better create the iron to be used to mark your notebooks.

3. Shaping
At this stage, craftsmen give the definitive forms at the customizable notebooks. They put together the cover, pages and glue the first-page. Now, it only remains to mark the notebooks of your identity.

4. The specific
Important step since it allows for the finishes of your notebooks to give them your business image or a very personal imagery. Here are the different finishing being counted in creating customizable notebooks:

  • paper cutting
  • creasing of the coverage
  • marking and embossing the cover with your logo or initials
  • gilt edged and printing. Specific step complementary to the shaping step

5. Logistics
In order to fully meet your expectations, our logistics operators prepare the work of routing and check the stock management, the mutli-addressing … for better distribution.

6. The routing
If you wish, you can ask for a transparent film individually or more or enveloping your customizable notebooks. One way to protect them or better offer this notebooks.

7. Shipping
This last step, and not least, makes the final packaging and send your notebooks as soon as possible.

Your customizable notebooks Mypaperbook are now in your hands. It remains for you to discover and affix your writings, your thoughts …