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| What You Should Know About Booklets |
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Janice Jenkins |
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There are different uses for booklets; some are created to inform, some are created to share. Whatever you will be needing this for always keep in mind - who you are making it for, so you can easily create it to their liking. Let the booklet printing begin with this list of the several points you need to know:
Allowed Design programs
All design programs are relatively allowed as long as the file formats it creates are what the printers can read. You can pick from Photoshop, Publisher, Quark Express, Illustrator or InDesign. There are other design programs out there some are even made online, remember though that your file type is important.
Binding
You can pick just about anything binding method you want but the most common method used for any booklet is the saddle stitch because it holds everything in place and it is faster to do.
Good File formats
The preferred file formats of printers are PDF, tiff, eps and jpg. Whichever program you choose make sure the file it creates are any of those. If you will be using a separate file for the covers make sure it’s file type is similar to the other.
Resolutions
If you are placing pictures make sure it has a high resolution so that when it is printed it will not look pixilated. High resolutions are 300dpi or more.
Sizing
Your entire design should be 1/4inch bigger than your actual print. General sizes that are used for booklets are A4s and A5. You can request for a customized size if you think that the regular ones may be a bit big for your design.
Fonts
Fonts come together with your program and the saved file. Make sure it is embedded in the file. Save it as a high quality or press quality option.
Printer marks
Do not put printer marks in your design. Printers would prefer to keep your designs clean because they will be printing is as you gave it, should you have lines or whatever they might not be able to print it the way you want it, or there may be some lines that will be visible.
Orientation
Your file orientation should be the same with all the pages from the cover to the back. Make sure everything is similar with everything else.
Areas in your document to look out for:
Bleed
Your bleed areas are the place where your design ends. It goes together with the trim line since the printers will be cutting right after the bleed.
Caution Zone
Caution zone is not called caution for no reason. Make sure that the text or pictures you include in your design (and in all pages) are at least 1/8 inch away from the trim line where the printers will be cutting.
Trim line
Your trim line is where they will be cutting or trimming your design so make sure nothing falls on this line or outside of it unless you do not want it to be seen.
Border line
Your border lines are one fourth inch from your bleed area.
Bear in mind that your printers will not spell check for you so do it before you finalize and send the file for booklet printing. Since you know everything there is to know about booklets, expect everything to be easy.
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