Glassine interleaving is frequently used to protect prints in finely printed books.
In stamp booklets, the glassine is there to keep the gum on the back of the stamps from gluing the booklet closed. Since the glassine was necessary, post offices around the world sought to capitalize on its presence by printing advertising on the interleaving. I decided to do the same thing. And what to advertise? JoCo Cruise 2021, of course! |
I scraped a bitmap of the Nieuw Amsterdam silhouette from the Holland America web site. It cleaned up pretty well in Illustrator.
I added the obligatory Spinal Tap reference since next year's cruise will be the eleventh year. The manicules are there just because I can. |
One thing that was different is that the oil-based Southern Ink takes a very long time to dry on glassine.
We're talking weeks here, not hours or days. Good thing I didn't wait until the last minute to print these. Yes, these are hand numbered in the order they were printed. I did this on everything for this project so I could track what was printed when I case I saw something weird that needed tracking down. |
That's the last component of the booklet complete. Time to poke a very large number of holes in paper.