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Book Design and Imaging

How to Clean a Book Jacket

Got my first book a couple days ago and I’m 1000x pleased. Noticed the black jacket cover gets smudgy with fingerprints. Anyone know a way to clean it off so it looks like it did when I first got it?

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Posted by
belairjeff
Nov 28, 2007 1:42pm PDT
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I would think you probably want to use some kind of camera lenses’ special cloth. I wouldn’t want to use any kind of window sprayers whatsoever, because it is probably do some major damage to cover jacket for that matter.

Perhaps a slightly few droplets of lukewarm water and a piece of cloth like lens cloth and gently wipe it off.

Does that help, no?

I handle all of old photos or printed photo pieces from my HP Pro B9180 printer, I usually use white cloth gloves to handle these materials. Because I treat them like… museum-quality materials. I know this may sounds silly or absurd, but that is how i handle these materials with extreme care.

Posted by
brianbonitz
Nov 28, 2007 1:46pm PDT
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Ok, anyway, hope that helps this time. Good luck with your taking care of that book with some suggestion by other participants.

Cheers, Brian

Posted by
brianbonitz
Nov 29, 2007 12:52am PDT
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brianbonitz
 

I am currently starting my first book… and was planning on a black cover. Is this a bad idea?

Posted by
Ahoover
Dec 27, 2007 10:01am PDT
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Ahoover
 

My first book I used a black cover and it looks great. However it does show up the finger prints. The next I used full bleed pictures front and back and that didn’t     show any finger prints.

im going to try a white background for my next book

keep smiling

Posted by
pictureme
Dec 30, 2007 11:19am PDT
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