Notebooks

Hatch is known for letterpress-printed posters. For many years, they’ve found ways to recombine their enormous archive of historic images and type in ways that always seem fresh and vibrant.  Fields Notes and Hatch collaborated to make memo covers from posters.

• ·       Cover: Domtar Cougar 100#C “White” with a brute-force application of a variety of hand-mixed Kennedy oil-based inks, including “Just About Pantone 637.

• ·       Outer cover printed over 32 hours at Hatch Show Print by Cory Wasnewsky with support from Nick Larson, in two passes on a 1942 Miehle 29 sheetfed press.  

• ·       Inner cover/innards printed on a Komori GL 640L 40" 6-color UV offset press.

• ·       Bound with a Horizon SPF-200L “Bookletmaker” stitcher with dual feeder towers.

• ·       Corners precisely rounded to a 3/8" (9.5mm) radius with a Challenge DCM double round-corner machine.

• ·       Ruled lines: 1/4" (6.4mm).

• ·       Memo book dimensions are 3-1/2" × 5-1/2" (89mm × 140mm).

• Innards: Finch Opaque Smooth 60#T "Bright White"