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Hi Darcy,

Shoot me an email with the size you're looking for and whether you want single or double sided. We're lookign at 8.5x8.5 square 4x4 square (bound) and 12x12 sheets...Phil

Hello Phil at QOOP! (Wow, I love the internet. And I think I'd have to say that QOOP is one proactive business....)

Any square size is going to be popular with scrappers, I think. Personally, I would prefer a saddle stitch, because then I have folios that I can resew and bind my own way. (Of course, one would like to know what the imposition would be. That would probably be an advanced feature....)

8.5 square is a nice size. Lots of scrappers work in 8x8 so they can print on a regular printer, so 8.5 would give you a nice border. 4x4 is probably cute but I don't know how much I would use it. 12x12 single sheets would be *awesome* especially if you can manage them double-sided....

Looking forward to new possibilities :-)

Thanks,
Darcy

Phil,

Your email seems to be broken, so I'm going to continue the conversation here, just in case you check back....

Phil wrote:

Hi Darcy,
Thanks for your note and yes, the internet makes for a small world.
We do make saddle stitch, but the problem is the paper isn't gloss so the images and colors don't pop as much.
From what you're describing, am I correct to assume that you really want the order of folded sheets like saddle stitching, but no binding at all?
Thanks,
Phil

and my response was:

Hi Phil, Yes, you're exactly right about folded but not bound. I suspect, however, that this is not a huge market.... I think most people are more than happy to have their books bound for them ;-)

Ideally, in dreamland, I would be able to specify pages (images) in order and have them come out imposed correctly in m sections of n folios each (where a folio is four pages--recto, verso, recto, verso). (I think this would be the hard part to specify on-line.) I might want to end up with four sections of four folios each, so the order matters. If all 64 pages were printed in one section, that limits my sewing possibilities. (Of course, if I knew it was going to be that way, I could figure out the imposition myself and send the pages in the "wrong" order so that I could rearrange them into the sections that I want.)

I also would want to be able to choose gloss vs. matte paper (or at least be able to get gloss paper).

Aside from all that, which as I said I doubt is of much interest outside the bookbinding community (and only a subset thereof, at that), I think square formats will help you market to scrapbookers. Having the option of bound or single sheets would be nice, and single-sided vs. double-sided if single sheets. I doubt scrapbookers in general would care for the folded but not bound option. If they want the pages unbound, they are probably going to mount them to larger pages in an existing book (single-sided) or put them in page protectors (double-sided).

I'll be curious to see what you come up with!

Thanks for your time,
Darcy

I'll try the email again later on....