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About Big Book
Which is more difficult: achieving world peace or making a
one-ton book about
world peace?
Some facts about the book:
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Each page will be 12 feet tall by 10 feet wide and be printed on
DuPont™ TyvekŪ.
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Hundreds of liters of
EFI VUTEk BioVu™ ink will be required to cover
90-square feet on each of 500-double sided pages.
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Each side of a page will take as long as 25-minutes to print on EFI VUTEk's
5330 grand format printer at
UniGraphic, Inc.
where it will also be bound
A prototype page-turning device, developed by the
University of
Massachusetts, Lowell's James B. Francis College of Engineering, using a
puff of air and a robotic arm.
To read a more detailed article about the logistics of creating such a book,
read the
boston.com
article.
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