Just in case anyone cared, this was recorded at a print shop in White Plains, MD called AGS. Upper management made a big deal out of these guys coming and had us clean all the equipment and hang our logo on everything. Pretty funny to see that not a single shot of a logo made it on the episode.
I pray that paper books never leave the market. Although ebooks save paper and are cheaper, I still love the feeling of actually turning a paper page and reading them with my fingers holding the book. I pray that bookstores and libraries never get demolished. Paper books, FTW!
***** Well I love having a collection to display and stuff, also, e-readers are dependent on batteries and if you lose it it's expensive, if you lose a book you just buy another, way cheaper.
@@Carrosive Similar, but not like most hardcover books I've had which are collections of folded groups of pages which are then attached to a spine which is separate from the outer cover.
EETechs Textbook costs are mostly about licensing; every image and table has distribution rights and the rights holders need to be paid according to their licensing agreements, which can have expiration dates, fees per book, or fees per printing. On top of that, because a school or professor will require a specific textbook, there is no competition. With a veritable monopoly, publishers can charge significant markup.
as a former employee of a book making company. i remember those machines all too well. then the economy got bad and it closed but i miss it. we used to put all kinds of books together. but we called that machine she called the guillotine a trimmer and we stacked them different.
Came here to see if it's BS or not. I work in a factory that makes books and that's exactly how are made. The first machine is used for small tiny "books" usually made for advertisement or instructions for a product. But I mostly work on the second machine, I feed the machine with signatures (stacks of pages, we must be careful because the machine doesn't recognize if the pages are in correct order).
I did this by hand in a high school course. We did manual guillotine cutting, held down the stack with a large vise, and dipped our hands in glue to apply it to the side. Since it's not really necessary anymore, it's just interesting knowledge and 2 stacks of notepads I have left.
On the guillotine, the operator uses a foot pedal to bring down the press and then pushes a button with each hand to bring down the blade. His hands were safe.
"The 16th century saw the arrival of cheaper, printed, books with simple pasteboard bindings." Way to downplay one of the most momentous inventions in the history of mankind
I am writing a Novel at the minute and wanted to know how books are bound, and didn't realize that I had my volume up. It's pretty late and woke everyone up with "BOOK BINDING".
I had 49 years in the print finishing trade, very stressfull work.Usually the managers of print factories dont know much about the shop floor problems, or care, its all down to get the job out to the customer ASAP.
Not sure where you're from but here in America we pronounce it like she did. It's not about being ignorant it's just the way we pronounce it and it wouldn't sound good any other way. It's just like Americas pronounce Adidas a certain way. Nothing to get offended about.
I only came here because the thought of how textbooks were made popped into my head while studying Organic Chem wondering how all this info in my text book was printed 😂 what a distraction 😅
I miss running buckle folders... and presses... and cutters and stitchers and all things printing lol..... I haven't printed a sheet in over 20 years but I guarantee I'd walk back into the trade like it's just been a 4 day weekend
that type of industrial machine (hydraulic presses) is usually is protected, probably there's a sensor that stops the machine if there's something inside the moving part zone.
@Sciencebox2010 You know those guillotines have laser sensors which cut the machine out if you get anywhere near the blade as it trims, and there are 2 buttons which are both underneath the bench that have to be pushed together and held to activate the blade...so it's literally impossible for your hands to be near it as it trims :) it's safer than a working in a kitchen.
@Sciencebox2010 It's a lot less dangerous than it looks... the first bar that comes down is the clamp to stop the paper from shifting, and it's non-serrated so it wouldn't cut you, nor would it crush your hand either because it is likely sensor or operator driven. The blade only comes down when the technician stands back and his hands are well clear... it's most likely operated by foot pedal. It just looks very fluid and automated because he's probably done it thousands of times.
Omg WHY! Btw did you notice Papyrus and sans are brothers. Papyrus is a type of paper, and sans is a font. Sans belongs on Papyrus (or other paper) ILLUMI-NITED CONFIRMED
i was sitting on the toilet when I had the sudden desire to know how books are made. so when i was done I went on youtube, searched it up, and watched this video. thanks. lol.
@weaver2109 There's a foot pedal that he has to reach and then push down for the guillotine to work, so it's not as bad as you think. It's not like he only have a few seconds to do the job before it comes down. lol. He control when it does.
definition of book noun 1. a written or printed work of fiction or nonfiction, usually on sheets of paper fastened or bound together within covers. 2. a number of sheets of blank or ruled paper bound together for writing, recording business transactions, etc. 3. a division of a literary work, especially one of the larger divisions. 4. the Book, the Bible. 5. Music . the text or libretto of an opera, operetta, or musical. EXPAND
we went to see one on a school trip last year, the machine has a sensor, so it wont cut ur fingers off :P it stops automatically if something crosses the sensor
What about before all that? Do they have to retype every word of the manuscript again and again to make the pages? What about before e computers/ Especially with illustrations....
books from my school use perfect bindings and it really irritating after about 3 months the pages inside the books starts to ripping of each time i turn the pages.
the title of this episode was actually "How It's made - BookBINDING" so ofcourse they will only show the bookbinding part. maybe the uploader had a little mistake and entitled it as "How It's made - Book"
