All three will send out samples. If you like, you can mention ThomsonShore's name when you make your request.
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Basically, there are two prime manufacturers of colored end leaf, Rainbow and Multicolor. They both have many colors available. Rainbow actually has 87 colors including two prints and three finishes and probably a hundred different prices.
End leaf is made with longer fibers than normal paper and comes in 80 lb. (Rainbow) or 70 lb. (Multicolor). The long fibers give high folding strength and, in the case of Rainbow, it hits 400 on the MIT folding test. If you chose to use regular colored stock instead of end leaf stock for end leaves, you will sacrifice considerable folding durability.
Some specific end leaf colors are acid free and some are recycled but most are neither. The smallest colored end leaf order you can obtain will be enough for 300 books and it will add about $.30/copy to the production cost. This added cost drops to about $.10/copy at 1000 copies and goes down slowly from there.
A printed end leaf like Rainbow's Mezzotints adds another $.10 to this cost while one of the embossed finishes adds just about $.02/copy.
At one time Multicolor end leaf was only available in even cartons and this made it very costly for a small number of books. However, now the minimum order from both manufacturers is approximately enough for 300 copies.
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The Arrestox people have done away with the Pyroxylin coating on their A, B and C grade cloths in favor of a more environmentally friendly aqueous coating. This coating is neutral pH, has similar abrasion resistance to pyroxylin, stamps well and does not change the cloth's color. In their 20 most popular colors, the B grade Arrestox cloth is about $.Ol/copy higher priced than Holliston Roxite. In their less popular colors, it is close to $.08/copy higher priced. If you are interested in A, B or C grade Arrestox and want to see the 20 colors that have the low price, let us know and we will send you samples. At the moment, Holliston's Roxite charges the same for all their cloths, popular colors or not.
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