The Accordion Book: An Old Idea Reinvented for Digital Printing
Accordion Books have a long tradition in many parts of the world. They have now been relegated to limited page count specialty books, and live on mainly as an arts and crafts activity. In the distant past however, when books were scripted by hand, accordion books were a common method to produce books and in fact they represented an evolutionary step from the scroll.
With the advent of digital printing methods, such as electrophotography or ink jet printing, it is once again possible to produce books using this unique folding method, because of their inherent ability to print pages in sequence.
Accordion books offer several advantages in the realms of readability, printability, design and production efficiency.
The paper will describe the architecture of an accordion book prototype that can be produced on a digital printing device as well as the engineering design modifications necessary to print and finish accordion books in-line.
Keywords: Accordion Books, Digital Printing
Prof. Manfred Breede
Professor, Ryerson University |
Assistant Professor Jason Lisi
School of Graphic Communications Management |
Ref: B06P0142