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Law reviews, legal journals, symposium issues, perfect-bound and hardcover books. Printed and bound in Indianapolis since 1865.

1See Western Newspaper Publishing Co., Inc., 929 W. 16th Street, Indianapolis, Ind. (est. 1865). This year makes Volume 161.

Infra § II. The assembly

From files to the shelf.

Every issue takes the same five steps. Your board handles the words. We handle the sheet, the fold, the spine and the cover, and we tell you where things stand at each step.

  1. 01

    Files in

    Manuscripts, front matter, masthead and your Order of Materials arrive. Pages are laid out on the press sheet.

  2. 02

    Proofs

    Page proofs go back to your board. Mark corrections, send them in, review the next round.

  3. 03

    Approved to print

    Your managing editor signs off on the final proof. The issue goes to press after that, not before.

  4. 04

    Print and bind

    Sheets are printed and folded into signatures, gathered, glued at the spine and wrapped in the cover.

  5. 05

    Mailed to subscribers

    Finished copies go out to your subscriber list and authors. Then the next issue starts.

See § III. The docket

Know where your issue stands.

An editor's year runs on dates and status. Ask us about any issue and you get a plain answer: proofs out, corrections in, approved, on press, bound, mailed.

Example docket. Illustrative issues only, not live jobs.
IssueBindingStatusProgressNext
Your Law ReviewVol. 75, No. 1Perfect boundProofs outBoard marks corrections
Symposium IssueVol. 75, No. 3Perfect boundApprovedGoes to press
Academic JournalVol. 12, No. 2Perfect boundBoundMail to subscriber list
Faculty BookFirst printing, No. 1HardcoverCorrections inRevised proof to editor
Law JournalVol. 98, No. 4Perfect boundOn pressFold, gather, bind

E.g. § IV. On the shelf

Volume after volume.

A run of a journal on a library shelf is a public record of every board that ever edited it.

The spine carries the title, the volume number and the year, and it has to line up with the run before it. We check cover, spine and masthead with you on every issue, so the next board inherits a shelf that matches.

Florida Law Review · a Western Publishing client

Four volumes of the Florida Law Review standing on a shelf, spines showing volume numbers and years
Florida Law Review, on the shelf

Cf. Changing printers?

Bring last year's issue.

Moving a journal mid-volume feels risky because the run has to stay consistent. Start by sending us what you already have, and we will build the next issue to match it.

  1. Your most recent printed issue or its PDF
  2. Masthead, cover and spine files
  3. Order of Materials for the next issue
  4. Subscriber list and author copy counts
Start a switch

Accord New board?

You inherited the printer. Good.

Every spring a new managing editor takes over the journal and the printer relationship with it. Call us before your first issue and we will walk you through files, proofs, approval, binding and mailing, in your vocabulary.

Questions about spine width, file prep or front matter come up every year. Ask them early.

Talk to the press line

Id. § V. Next issue

Send us the next issue.

Tell us the journal, the issue, the page count and when it needs to mail. We will come back with an estimate and a plan.

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