Como encaderanar livros

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Book Assembly Photo-Journal
Hi, this is really, really long and has lots of pictures, so I've just gone and cut the whole thing. It's a goofy little photo-journal of the book assembly of my stuff for the upcoming MoCCA show. I hope you like it.

In a previous journal entry I posted a bunch of stuff about scanning my pages. After I scanned everything for the first two parts of my book (96 pages) I set about fixing any really nasty problems in photoshop, but I made a conscious effort this time to just ignore stray pencil marks or places where I painted outside the lines. I wanted the final printed copy to reflect more of the look of the actual page than a perfect looking page.

When I had final high-resolution artwork I set about shrinking them and moving panels around for my final book. The web formated pages are around 10" x 7", but my book format is around 6" x 7". More of a square. I usually planned my drawings in tiers. Each page has two tiers. So to fit the rectangular piece into the more square book I just take one page and add to it half of the next page, creating a three tier final artwork. (What was two rows on the web, is now three in print. I hope that makes sense).

So I've got a square page, reduced down to 300 dpi, and then converted to CMYK mode for printing. I take each page and place them in my book design software (sometimes Quark, but in this case I used InDesign at work). My layout was created to print on a sheet of legal sized paper, two pages on each side with the fold in the middle. I ran a few tests to make sure my software and my networked color copier/printer were talking to each-other properly. Eventually I got my InDesign color settings to be as accurate as possible for the printer I was using.

I broke my book into two parts. The 96 original pages had been broken down and reconfigured into 64 print pages. I then