I'm a noob to the whole professional printing business. What's the name of the paper you usually find in many art books that appear somewhat glossy but not like photographic paper and with a thickness in between laser paper and photographic paper? Is it simply called "glossy paper"? Cheers mate.
I'm not really sure that there's a standard for "high-end art books", but I'm not a graphic designer or publisher. My firm's monograph appears to be on some sort of heavy stock, semi-gloss paper, though the Phaidon monograph of Shigeru Ban's work seems to have a more matte feel to it.
There are endless choices for what you print on, many manufacturers, etc., etc.
Coatings and other printing is another matter. You can find basic descriptions of things like foil stamping, embossing/debossing, letter press, various coatings (including matte and glossy) online.
I think you should take a trip to the print shop before you send it off, many allow you too print test copies on a variety of stocks for free, so long as you end up printing the entire document with them that is.
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I'm a noob to the whole professional printing business. What's the name of the paper you usually find in many art books that appear somewhat glossy but not like photographic paper and with a thickness in between laser paper and photographic paper? Is it simply called "glossy paper"? Cheers mate.
Ask your printer, there is not "one" paper
sounds like semi-gloss to me.
is semi-gloss what you would find in most art books on the bookshelf?
or, maybe i should say, high-end art books with lots of pictures
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I'm not really sure that there's a standard for "high-end art books", but I'm not a graphic designer or publisher. My firm's monograph appears to be on some sort of heavy stock, semi-gloss paper, though the Phaidon monograph of Shigeru Ban's work seems to have a more matte feel to it.
i believe the paper is usually uv coated after printing.
I second the semi-gloss.
There are endless choices for what you print on, many manufacturers, etc., etc.
Coatings and other printing is another matter. You can find basic descriptions of things like foil stamping, embossing/debossing, letter press, various coatings (including matte and glossy) online.
I think you should take a trip to the print shop before you send it off, many allow you too print test copies on a variety of stocks for free, so long as you end up printing the entire document with them that is.
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