| book that is sewn together and then a bunch of signatures are bound together and glued to the book cover (I think that's how it works, anyway) - Thing of it is, the printing plates (if anyone still uses printing plates) have to have all the even pages of the signature on one plate, and the odd pages on another plate - the signature is printed on one large piece of paper, folded, sewn, and the edges cut, and voila! you have a bound section of a book.
I may have some of this wrong, and out of sequence, and it certainly my understanding of this process harkens back to the old hand-set type days, but that's where the term comes from. I'm not completely sure how modern presses handle this. |
