{"id":109,"date":"2010-05-03T14:24:38","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T14:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ka-blam.com\/printing\/front\/?p=109"},"modified":"2016-10-13T22:15:53","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T22:15:53","slug":"where-do-you-put-a-bar-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ka-blam.com\/main\/where-do-you-put-a-bar-code\/","title":{"rendered":"Where do you put a bar code?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are no hard and firm rules for the placement of a UPC bar code on a saddle stitched comic.\u00a0 We choose to put it on the back cover if you have a Ka-Blam ad because it&#8217;s an inconspicuous spot that doesn&#8217;t mar the front cover image and we allowed space for it in the design of the ad.<\/p>\n<p>However on paperback books it&#8217;s different.\u00a0 The ISBN guidelines say the bar code must be printed on the BACK cover of a book.\u00a0 It can be printed elsewhere as well.\u00a0 Many books also include a bar code on the inside front cover.\u00a0 But the back cover is the required location.\u00a0 So if you&#8217;re prepping a paperback be sure you leave a null space about 2 inches wide by no less than 3\/4 of an inch high on your back cover for the ISBN and bar code.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are no hard and firm rules for the placement of a UPC bar code on a saddle stitched comic.  However on paperback books it&#8217;s different &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ka-blam.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ka-blam.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ka-blam.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ka-blam.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ka-blam.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ka-blam.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4695,"href":"https:\/\/ka-blam.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions\/4695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ka-blam.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ka-blam.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ka-blam.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}