This is another example of a die cut cover for a hardback case bound book. This particular one you can see is a perfectly round circle. Could be jagged, could be multiple shapes. In this incident the cover was unwrapped. Whether the cover is unwrapped or wrapped, it makes no difference. If you want something die cut like this case bound hardback book we can help. We have one specialized machine that actually does die cutting on hardback bound books.
Another distinctive, hardback case bound book with coloured headbands and printed endpapers. The obvious is a die cut front cover. We could die cut a circle up to 8 1/2 inches wide or larger, if the book was much larger. The die-cut can be oval, triangle shaped, or jagged edge. I’ve seen situations with two die-cut holes in the hardback case. One additional process that we can perform is die-cutting the chipboard interior of the case, off-line die, cutting the cover with a smaller circle with slits in it. When we produce the cases automatically and then the slit flaps are glued around the edges of the hole in this situation you can’t see the gray chipboard inside the die-cut hole. It would be the same colour as the printed cover wrap. More expensive, more appealing and obviously more distinctive and functional.
This hardback case bound book is the largest die-cut hole size of any book I’ve ever seen. Our clicker die-cutting machine cut the holes in the cover. There could be one or two or three hole shaped, as ovals, squares, triangles or circles. Usually when you see a hardback case bound book with a die-cut cover similar to this, instead of having a picture printed on the front cover as you can see here it’s on the inside of the end paper. When we die-cut the cover we bind the book in a normal style. We open the cover 180 degree and die-cut. When we’re die-cutting what we’re doing is cutting through the actual cover mounted to the next panel of the endpaper. 99.9% of all endpapers are blank but in this case, they must be printed.