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_refugee_  ·  2660 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What are your goals for 2017?

Thanks!

Yeah I think I am going to make some "books" that are planners and have inspiration covers. I really like the covers, it was fun and positive getting to choose exactly which positive messages to send, and also then I can have a planner that does everything exactly how I want it to.

I am discovering that properly printing double-sided pages in signatures is a right bitch in the process, tho.



user-inactivated  ·  2660 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    I am discovering that properly printing double-sided pages in signatures is a right bitch in the process, tho.

What makes it hard? The thickness of the folded pages?

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_refugee_  ·  2660 days ago  ·  link  ·  

No, it's making it print right. Imagine you are creating every template you'd want to use for a planner yourself. In word. You plan to bind your book using signatures aka smaller booklets of six pages or so each, folded in half.

Now have fun figuring out how you have to input what on each page in order to make your signature booklet actually have the pages appear in order when you stack them and fold them to make real pages. You're printing double sided pages with a single side printer btw so you also get to figure out how to turn the pages to print correctly, and you're printing one single page at a time. Because you can't print the whole doc in one go, at most you can only print all the odd side pages, take them, reinsert them into the printer facing correctly so you don't print over your good pages, and then print your even pages one by one (to make sure they're in the correct order on the correct page) just to get everything printed on the right side of the paper it's supposed to be.

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user-inactivated  ·  2660 days ago  ·  link  ·  

If you want my advice, here's what I think you should do.

Save the document as a PDF, individual pages. Make sure your margins are wide enough so none of your text/images get lost in the gutter. Take it to a local retail printer and explain to them you need it booklet printed, in sections, 32 pages at a time (or however many pages you bind together, 32 pages should be 8 sheets of paper). They should have a program like that will arrange everything in a booklet format for you and they can print it out unbound, in order, the way you need it.

Your headache is gone. You'll save on ink. They might even use paper that's better than what you have at home. Win. Win.

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_refugee_  ·  2660 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah, but then what do I learn?

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user-inactivated  ·  2660 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That the man who came up with the concept of sub-contracting was on to something. ;)

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_refugee_  ·  2660 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I have printed like 5 copies of my template for January and they keep getting closer to right but none of them has actually. Even right yet. And now I'm mad about printer ink.

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