Lay-Flat Bookbinding Build Diary



Introduction
Content
Printing
Clamping
Gluing
The Cover
Gluing the Cover
Things to try


Links

Cornell notetaking system

Japanese five-point binding

Perfect binding

LaTeX

Texniccenter Latex IDE

GIMP Image program

Barcode Generator

Materials

Notebook TEX

Notebook PDF

GIMP Book Cover File

PDF Book Cover File



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Step 2 - Printing the content

I used cheap all-purpose paper from HP to print the pages. The paper is called HP multipurpose paper. It is 500 sheets at 92 brightness, witha 20 pound weight. It has a nice smooth texture that I think will work well with fountain pens. I decided on 100 pages for one notebook. This makes about a half-inch thick spine for the weight paper that I used.

HP Multipurpose paper

The paper is acid-free, but I don't know how that much that will help me, given that the athletic tape I used on the spine said nothing about being acid-free, not that I am asking for acid-free athletic tape...