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Wednesday, September 30, 2026

IMS Publishing

  With the completion of "The Gnomes of New Hope; Zach and Zebby's Grand Adventure", the next stage is production. With that in mind, I am setting up a print shop, in order that we have the capacity for on-demand printing. 

   Here is an image of the press we will be using for printing the books. This machine will serve the needs for the Storybooks, Libretto and Score. It's exciting to think that this project has gotten this far.

   What that means is that all. Limited Edition and Unlimited Hand-Stiched Volumes will be produced in-house.

    So for the time being all books will be limited to the volumes we can produce. If demand exceeds our production capacity for Hand-Stiched books, then the machine bound books will be introduced and larger quantities may be licensed to another print house.

Addendum:

  The press you see above will need to be set-up and one aspect of that is a climate controlled clean room. That means construction in the studio and there are issues surrounding doing that. So, for the time being, the press will sit idle. In the mean while, I am gathering binding equipment, a paper cutter and, in particular, I need to locate a GBC StreamPunch Pro EX. That is an inline punch designed to go with this press and it is proving difficult to find. One alternative is to use pre-punched paper. I'm looking into that.

  The books which will be produced in-house will have Hand-Stiched covers. That means I am seeking to print the inner pages so that they exit the press being punched and stapled. This will allow a more secure handling of the books and facilitate a much more efficient application of the covers. The Hand-Stiched books are vastly superior to the Perfect Bond editions. But nonetheless, "Perfect-Bind" must come into play for large quantities. Depending on how things go, I may set-up for "Perfect-Bind".

   Of course, the other option is to "job-out" the Perfect-Bind Editions. Which will require a substantial advance on sales, since that will help fund the Animations (which are under way). I will discuss the more on The Gnome of New Hope blog

More Later. AG
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The future of Cinema Under the Stars

Visit: Cinema Under the Stars for discussion about this program. All activities in the Meadow Amphitheatre are on hiatus. This and other programs will center around a new portable stage which we are building and will be presented at various locations.

The Meadow Amphitheatre

The Meadow Amphitheatre has been dismantled due (in large part) to vandalism.

We expect to rebuild a portable version of the stage, which will be available on a rental basis. Look for further information to appear on the web pages linked below or send an email to imagemindag@verizon.net

A tour of The Meadow Amphitheatre has been moved to it's own site and there is a page on Facebook titled "The Shakespeareans of Tamanend Park".

Please refer to The Shakespearean Journal for the commentary & discussion regarding efforts to rebuild the stage."

Any information or photographs regarding this stage activity may be found at these three locations and postings will depend somewhat on the interest shown by other people.




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