#uniprintables

[tillzzy]

FMP

Test Printing

Quality of images all looks good, the only thing is that the printers in the library aren't good. I will definitely be asking uniprint to print my final outcome as the quality will be better. Thicker paper will also be better so the book is less flimsy. I need to look at paper weights to progress with printing.

[eleanorbriarsterm2]

Week 7

Paper Research

For the prototype I made, the card was 160gsm, it was a good quality but I want it a bit thicker so 180-200gsm, so that it can fit in the normal printer. I had a look at Uni but there wasn't all the colours I wanted. I looked online and found some paper on Amazon that should be good, if it isn't I have a backup plan of using the Uni's paper but the orange colour may have to be pink or yellow. The paper doesn't arrive until Monday, so if it isn't right, I will look at some stationary shops (I already looked at UniPrint).

[uofslibrary]

Uniprint update completed

The Uniprint update has completed and available for use.

[krisrisk]

Knitting and crocheting have rules just like embroidery; you decide, which ones you follow.

I've heard people say weird st ff about knitting socks, about yarn quality and all - my favourite pair was originally store bought wool socks, which i frogged and re-did. My grandma had almost had a heart attack when she saw me. "Wrong needles! Where did you get this yarn? Has it been used once before? Then you must'nt use it!"

🙄 who cares. I loved my socks. 🥰

Also fashion has got SO MUCH worse over the past decade. I have shirts from that time and they look so much better still than new ones?! The new ones are ALL almost see through?! And these are some uniprinted, regular t-shirts made of cotton. They should NOT be almost seethrough! And yet they are!

I try to speak against the whole "guilt about consumption" thing in environmentalism but god damn if it doesn't Get Me sometimes (all the time)

I've been putting off buying new clothes for like a year because I just feel bad buying stuff but it's getting to a very bad situation as I am running out of pants that are warm and have few enough holes to be decent to wear in public.

I'm trying to mend some of them by embroidery but that's very slow and they're so poor quality to begin with that running embroidery floss through them stretches new holes in them.

I bought my one and only decent pair of work pants when I was still recovering from The Situation a couple years ago and had lost a really unhealthy amount of weight, so now they're starting to feel too tight and hard to move around in.

I've read articles about sustainability where people talked about downsizing their wardrobe to just like 4 outfits, and I don't comprehend it! The fewer clothes you have the more you have to wear them. I bought a new carhartt hoodie at the beginning of this semester, from the mens section too since those tend to be a little better quality, and I have been wearing it as an outer layer for maybe a month and a half and I have washed it ONCE and it is pilling like crazy. Like there's pills all over it not just in high-friction areas, everywhere! It gives it this awful rough scraggy texture and it makes me very sad.

[dianintan]

Uniprint

Taking a look of various things in Uniprint.

[studycoffeesexbylybka]

Heeeeeey Folks! New 2020 Halloween Revision Planner is out!!! ;) 

[nevebennett-viscom]

Test printing I have found lots of problems that need to be solved

Things to change:

Pngs so the black works

Trees and branches pixelly

The line up isn't good on the back, so I may have to find out if I can change the binding or not. I need to speak to uniprint again tomorrow and find out, becuase the alignment is a big issue.

[conceptsofvisuallanguageoli]

Look book with cover

Here's the final outcome. The cover was a pain to get as it took UNIPRINT 4 hours to print it off.

There's a mistake with it too as its too small leaving it so you can see the crop marks still.

I am unable to get another one as I do not have the time.

I do think that the cover looks nice on the look book regardless.

[juukyu]

FMP - Print - Final Book

I printed the inside pages of the book, and then left the cover and the binding process up to uniprint. In hindsight, the printers gave me so many issues that I should’ve just let uniprint do the whole thing, but overall I’m still happy with how the book turned out:

[jhviscomms]

W14: Time Planner (25/04/23)

Week and a half Plan:

Wednesday 26th

Final Crit 10:45am

Blog Notes

Make plan for Tuesday and see how do-able it is

If Binding Tuesday, maybe do a test bind today 

Make Changes from Tutorial

Annotate Test Prints

Look at FBI Thing

Print Final Version

Process Book

Thursday 27th

Spend Day Binding with Joseph

Take Photo’s for Process Book

Put Book in box along with test versions

Process Book in evening

CR3

Friday 28th

Grad Show Work

Grad Show Pitch

Process Book in evening

Test Print Process Book

CR4

Saturday 29th

Process Book

Draw and Edit In Cold Blood

CR5

Sunday 30th

…

Monday 1st

Do as much process book as possible

Catch up on Blog

Re-write LA

Tuesday 2nd

Fiona 10am

Finish Process Book

Print Process Book

Give to UniPrint

Wednesday 3rd

Plan things that need to go in box

Get things that I need for box ready

Print out In Cold Blood

Collect Process Book

Alison 6:15pm

Start Sorting Portfolio Slides

Thursday 4th 

Finalise Blog

Get Process Book

Put Process Book in box

Finish Portfolio Slides

Friday 5th:

Hand in Physical

Final Patty Hearst Book

Patty Hearst Drafts 1-5

Patty Hearst Test Covers

Patty Hearst Test Paper 

Patty Hearst Test Fonts

Patty Hearst Grid Tests

Sketchbook

In Cold Blood Cover

In Cold Blood Draft 1

Process Book

Process Book Test Prints

Hand in Digital

FMP PDF

FMP grids and guides PDF

PHOTO OF BOX 

Process Book PDF

Process Book PDF grids and guides

Portfolio Slides PDF

Blog Link

Digital Version of In Cold Blood File

I made a time plan for the rest of the time before hand in.

[tillzzy]

FMP

Lay-Flat Binding

uses cold glue instead of hot glue, that is thinly applied to the spine

once dry the cover is attached to the end papers on each side of the spine

the spine of the cover is not attached to the book block

book opens completely flat across the centre fold - images can be run across both halves of the spread - gives more opportunity for design

easier to use

I emailed uniprint to see if they could lay flat binding, but they don't have the setting for it on the binding machine they use. I emailed printroom and Joseph is currently away so I will have to wait until he is back to see how this concept can progress.

Haley (2021). Lay-Flat Book Binding - Color House Graphics, Inc. [online] Color House Graphics, Inc. Available at: https://colorhousegraphics.com/lay-flat-binding/#:~:text=Perfect%20binding%20is%20the%20most,either%20side%20of%20the%20spine. [Accessed 14 Mar. 2024].

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[uofslibrary]

Advance notice of the Pharos/Uniprint system

On Monday, January 22 starting at 9am the Pharos/Uniprint system will be unavailable for use due to scheduled maintenance. Library Systems will post when Pharos/Uniprint is back online.

[stuffedgrapeleaves]

im going to print out every good page of inception (2010) fanfiction using stolen uniprint cards, staple it all together, and go wank over it on a beach somewhere for the next 2 months. merry christmas

[olivermongervisualthinking]

Tutorial

Due to feeling unwell I ended up missing my tutorial which was something I was very adamant on attending as I felt sort of lost with what to push next. I was able to email my tutor Mark images of my packages and notes for them which Mark read and gave me the feedback that I needed.

this feedback was incredibly helpful in guiding me into what to do next to progress within this project. I need to get my design done and finalised whilst creating thumbnails for my poster this weekend so I can be on top of everything. With the feedback that Mark has supplied I feel confident that I am able to complete this now - with some stress. 

Mark mentioned that out of the designs I showed the Grungy style one, inspired by Chris Ashworth, was the one to develop and I think that that's the one that I am happy to move forward with. It does however need a lot of development for it to be improved and work. One thing that was mentioned that I had never really considered was the fact that it needs to look like a package people want to eat from (ie you don't want it to look "dirty") This is something that I will definitely consider when developing the design idea.

Adding colour was something else that was mentioned. I was going to leave it the black and white but I think that it might work better with colour so I will develop it like so. I am a big fan of messy grungy style of design so I am happy to move forward with this design. 

I was also stuck with the material to use as the window into the design. I got my answers her with the suggestion of Acetate that I may be able to get from the UniPrint shop on Campus.

The tutorial here was very helpful in the progression of design ideas. 

[olivermviscom]

Binding and Paper stock

I spoke with Mark during my tutorial where he mentioned they do not have the tools to do the binding that I want done. So I was led to UNIPRINT the print shop within the university. I was able to find out that they can do the binding that I want done and I got a quote for it in order to understand the pricing for everything. 

The Binding itself will cost £4

I also got a chance to look into the different paper stock in order to find something that’ll work for my designs as the normal weight would be too light and easily breakable.

Cover and Back - 160 GSM Silk

Pages - 120 GSM Uncoated

I will be purchasing them once I get a better understanding of my layout. I may have to upsize to A3 which might change the price of the paper but that won't effect too much.