The printing process is definitely not the best choice. I knew that the digital printing service from our uni does not support printing a 13 A5 pages concertina. I was going to buy a long piece of paper myself fro printing my publication out in the right size so that I wouldn’t have to cut it into half and sticking them together. However, I realised that even if I got the long paper, they also don’t support printing the concertina because the maximum length that they could print is 1.3m which is shorter than my whole book. I also tried to look at printing companies if they could print a long concertina, most of them only do mass production and the prices are out of my budget. I even tried asking my Leeds Uni design friends if they could give a hand, it ended up not successful as they also do not support printing a long concertina.
On the printing day, as James was not in, I told Steve about the problem I am having and he offered help. He asked me to go meet him the dayafter at the comuputer resource room and we can get it sorted together. He also helped me to book digital print again so that I can print the final outcome before the dealine. I am actually so thankful that he was being so nicely and helpful. Steve showed me the best possible way to make the concertina and it was so complicated.
I then came in to find Steve today to get the printing document sorted. We figured it out at the Mac suites and it was so mind blowing for me. Steve suggested the best possible way to recreate the document. He created a SRA3 and tried putting a few pages of my concertina on to see how many pages can it actually fit in. It turned out, after adding the bleed, it can only fit in two pages on each SRA3 paper.
He then created two A-masters. One for the fronts and one for the backs. For the front pages, he added a tab on the right spread and for the back pages, he attached it on the left spread. The tabs are going to be used to stick it to the next page so that the glue or the glue or the tape will not be visible. However, as the tab is going to be overlapping the front pages, we have to actually use a tiny part of the next page as the tab so that it will not be covering up the words on the next page. This part is actually so complicated to make as we have to measure the bleed as well.
In the end, we nailed it. The document is print-ready for tomorrow.
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