This post has a dual purpose to share an updated post for you on paper and printing (which I trust has lots of useful content) and to share it in two more formats: an e-book and a PDF.
The reason I'm sharing these formats is that along with the reality that we live in a multi-channel world today where people take in information in a variety of ways, along with that some ways are easier for or preferred by certain people to access. Some like to read on-screen, some like print. Screen size can vary from quite small on our phones to various sizes of tablets and up to what many of us spend our day in front of--a computer screen.
Each of these has a format that is more readable or maybe more preferred than others. In addition, some are easier to share than others. This last point is important because a lot of the information on this site, I trust is useful to share with church communication volunteers or decision-making staff. Because of that I have experimented with various formats and here is what I have and some comments on each one. Below my comments are downloads of the e-book and the PDF:
Reading on-screen: this is quick and easy; probably most of you are initially reading this post this way. One thing I am very happy about and why I selected this website template when I redid the site is that this site reads extremely well on a mobile phone, which may be useful to pass on a link to a staff member who lives on their phone.
PDF print out: some people appreciate a printed page and I recently added the Print Post and Page Plugin to the site that adds a big PRINT button at the bottom of articles. If you hit that, it will create a PDF without all the extra junk on the page that would come up if you just used your printer button. There is a samples of this below. Hit the button and it immediately creates the PDF which can be great for printing off and sharing an article at, for example, a staff meeting.
E-book: sometimes you want to forward something to someone and you want it to look good and be very readable on-screen. This is where an e-book format is useful. I just started using a program that creates them (designrr.io), I'm not totally thrilled with it and have a lot of bugs to work out, but I do really like how easy to read the final product is. This would be a great format to forward to people. If attached to an email, it would download and open nicely for reading. This is also a way for me to aggregate content from related articles which I will be doing for ECC Members in the future.
Below are the samples, if you have time to comment on them, which you like or not or whatever, I'd appreciate your feedback.
The full color image is for the e-book and the plain print for the PDF.
Hi Yvon,
Been extremely busy, but took a quick peek at “6 tips to choose paper paper wisely . . . ” since my trade is printing.
Other than the typo in the title, I have a comment about paper weights.
You mention that 60 lb paper is heavier than 24 lb paper. Actually they are the same weight.
20 lb bond = 50 lb offset
24 lb bond = 60 lb offset
28 lb bond = 70 lb offset
32 lb bond = 80 lb offset
Bond weights are based on 500 sheets of 17″ x 22″.
Offset weights are based on 500 sheets of 25″ x 38″.
In years past, offset papers were always smoother and seemed more dense than bond papers. Better for printing detail on traditional “offset presses”. The ink tends to stay on the surface more with offset papers than with bond papers where the ink “soaks in”. Offset papers give a more crisp image with offset printing than bond paper.
Both bond and offset papers are uncoated. Coated papers (the slick, shiny stuff) give a very crisp image in traditional offset printing as the ink stays on the surface. Coated papers are used by offset colour presses as they remain relatively dimensionally stable as each CMYK colour is printed, so each colour will register with other colours across the whole sheet. This is especially true when using a one or two colour press as the sheets need to go through the press several times as each colour is printed. Uncoated paper would more readily mis-register as the sheets are less prone to remain dimensionally stable.
In digital printing (such as inkjet printers and colour copiers), colours are often applied almost simultaneously, so printing colours in register on uncoated paper is now less of an issue.
As we move into the digital printing age I notice that some uncoated papers, like Hammermill Laser Print and Xerox Bold, are very smooth and dense, but now use the bond weights on their packaging instead of offset weights.
God bless your ministry,
Ewald
PS: Excuse my spelling of the word “colour”. That’s how we spell “color” in Canada. 🙂
Ewald,
As always THANK YOU so much for your comments and the corrections! Always spot on.
I had to go out of town for a couple of days and will make the corrections later on today.
Please keep checking out my stuff–I really do appreciate it.
Yvon
I made the corrections on the Paper weight and the correct one will be on the download link now.
Again, I can’t thank Ewald enough for catching my error. PLEASE know that I always welcome pointing out my mistakes….goodness knows I make many of them!
Any time any readers have corrections or questions, always let me know either through comments or even faster is to directly email me at yvon@effectivechurchcom.com