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Ahi-visibility Antarctic Survey Orange front cover and Polar Night Black back cover, with a subtle varnish effect featuring a topographic map of Antarctica. The body pages features Field Notes’ popular dot-graph paper printed in light gray.

The whole book is printed on Yupo Synthetic paper, an amazing tearproof and waterproof paper extruded from polypropylene pellets in Chesapeake, Virginia.

Note: Synthetic paper is nonporous and does not absorb ink like conventional papers. Ballpoint pens, pencils, or fine tip Sharpies work best.

01. Proudly printed by the good people of eDOC Communications, Mount Prospect, Ill.
02. Cover: waterproof/tearproof Yupo Synthetic 74#C, with thick, brute force applications of Hi-Visibility Orange and Low-Visibility Black soy-based Saphira inks and a tinted spot varnish.
03. Innards: waterproof/tearproof Yupo Synthetic 57#T with a 1-color application of Cartographers Gray soy-based Saphira ink. (Use pencil/ballpoint pen for best results.)
04. Cover and innards printed on a Heidelberg Speedmaster XL 105 40″ 6-color printing press.
05. Bound by a Harris Bookbinder 6-pocket saddle stitcher with cover feeder, with appreciation to Samuel Slocum, George W. McGill, and William J. Brown, the Founding Fathers of the Staple.
06. Corners rounded to 3/8″ (9.5mm) by a Challenge DCM round-corner machine.
07. Dot-graph grid: 3/16″  3/16″ (4.7mm  4.7mm).
08. Memo book dimensions are 3-1/2″  5-1/2″ (8.9cm  13.9cm).
09. FIELD NOTES uses only the Futura typeface family (Paul Renner, 1927) in its materials.
10. All FIELD NOTES memo books are printed and manufactured in the U.S.A.

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