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Butcher Blue
The Most Elusive Edition
SPRING 2009 QUARTERLY EDITION Butcher Extra Blue THREE 48-PAGE MEMO BOOKS
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Our 2nd QUARTERLY Edition
Harder to Find Than Orange
When these went on press, we had no plans for Quarterly Editions, or subscriptions so when we released Butcher Extra Blue, our 2nd Quarterly Edition, we sold out almost immediately. Blue is actually harder to find than Orange.
SPECIFICATIONS:
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Proudly printed by the good people of Service Graphics, Inc., Oakbrook Terrace, Ill.
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Cover: French Dur-O-Tone 80#C “Butcher Extra Blue,” with a thick, brute force, 1-Color application of “Dachshund Nose” black ink.
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Innards: Boise Offset Smooth 50#T “White,” with a fine, soy-based, 1-Color application of “Double Knee Duck Canvas” light brown ink.
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Cover printed on a Heidelberg SP 102 28" × 40" 6-color printing press.
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Innards printed on a Didde 17½" × 22" 5-color printing press.
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Binding by a McCain 8-pocket saddle stitcher, with appreciation to Samuel Slocum, George W. McGill and William J. Brown—the “Founding Fathers of the Staple.”
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Corners precisely rounded to ⅜" (9.5mm) by a CRC round-corner machine.
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Graph grid: 3/16" × 3/16" (4.7mm × 4.7mm).
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Memo book dimensions are 3½" × 5½" (89mm × 140mm).
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FIELD NOTES uses only the Futura typeface family (Paul Renner, 1927) in its materials.
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All FIELD NOTES memo books are printed and manufactured in the U.S.A.