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Book trimming

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The shear cut principle works with two knives – upper and bottom knife. The bottom knife is fixed and the upper knife works against the fixed one. Example of the shear cut principle is the cut of the paper web in the web offset machine and this is realized by a circular blade. To cut simple brochures
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The book-cutting machine works with three knives and uses the knife-cut principle. The knife-cut principle operates with only one knife per edge which cuts against a rubber surface. This surface supports the cut force. The three-knife-trim is performed in one step. The block is aligned and fixed by
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of the folded printing sheets. Trimming is performed either with a hydraulic book trimmer that is able to cut a whole book in one or two passes or, until the invention of hydraulic book trimmers, with a cutting press (or lying press) and
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The third principle is the burst cut. This knife does not need a counter-acting tool. The required cut force is generated by the clamping force of the clamped paper.
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edges of a book are trimmed so that all pages will stack with perfect edge alignment within the finished book jacket.
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the pressure bar. The three knives cut all edges except the spine; new machines need only one step.
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Handbook of print media: technologies and production methods
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Automatic book trimming machine cutting two sides at once
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Book publishing
Bookbinding
Bleed (printing)
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Copy
Literary agent
Publisher's reader
intellectual property
royalty
Editing
Literary editor
Commissioning editor
Developmental editor
Authors' editor
Book editor
Copy editing
Design
Indexing
Typesetting
Proof-reading
List of proofreader's marks
Printing
Folding

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