How to Prepare Your Booklet for Printing the Easy Way — Designer Guide

Creating a catalogue or magazine gives you a chance to get creative, but to make sure you get the result you’re expecting, you need to be able to set up a print file.

This straightforward guide to booklet printing will show you how.

When you’re working on a project such as a wholesale catalogue, a scrappy zine or a luxury magazine, it’s always a good idea to think about the details of how to get it printed.

It’s easy to forget that technology has given us the means to manipulate images and designs and makes it easy to edit things digitally to make them reflect our ideas.

We can tweak images to within a pixel-width and move things around easily to test out different designs.

Print is not quite the same, and the process of putting ink on paper is somewhat shrouded in mystery, mostly because of the way printers have guarded the secret language that they use to make the whole process sound even more complicated than it is.

If you haven’t prepared a design for printing before, then it’s essential to understand some of the terms used and…