Section (bookbinding)

A layer called the book the individual cut sheet. These are a plurality of nested, usually four-sided, consecutively numbered double leaves. The layers are processed in the craft bookbinding, while used in industrial bookbinding for the same object, the term signatures. Several documents stapled together give the book block.

The beginning of a situation is as small sheets printed signature in the form of a number or a letter, sometimes a combination of both, visible on top of each first page at the bottom right or left. This signature bow is constantly in a book and already serves as an overview of the printer and the correct collating the documents before the binding process of the book.

In the paper industry will (in most cases as much as can be moved by hand ) uses the term position a certain number of sheets of paper.

• Book production
• Papiermaß