Don't hold your breath, Parick -- I'll get a copy off to you.
Basically, you need to be able to print the pdf file on a duplex printer -- sounds as if you're printing A4 on a bog-standard inkjet, and feeding the paper in again.
You nead to be able to tell the printer to reduce to A5, two pages to a sheet ...
But the techies on this list could give you better advcice than me.
Robin
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Hi Randolph,Robin and all -I did print up a copy of Poetryetc Anthology but
it is on A4 (double sided )lots of space around it- does one just have two
trim it down ? it is not in 'book' form I have it in a A4 loose leaf folder
-think I need' a clamp or something to drill holes down the side- could hole
punch ? then side sew (like those yummy Japanese books I am good at mending
books but this is new ground -when I did a diy pamphlet I could layout to
centre staple ok A4 portrait and one copy above the other.
Cheers Patrick the non tech
Appreciate any tips ps am nifty with the Stanley knife and straight edge and
sewing
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From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Randolph Healy
Sent: 10 October 2008 08:02
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Subject: Re: Printing anthologies ...
Hi Robin,
Yes, diy as an option is alive and well.
A craft knife and a steel rule is much cheaper than a heavy trimmer.
Stitching as opposed to staples is an option.
For pamphlets of the size you mention, on can use an awl (or even just a
drill) to make the holes first). Embroidery thread with a
correspondingly large of eye needle will hold it together.
To bind on the flat, make three holes. Bring the thread down through the
centre, up at the bottom, down at the top and up through the centre
again. Repeat as nec. Then cut and tie the two ends. For a centre-fold
binding I have a pdf at www.wildhoneypress.com
best
Randolph
ROBIN HAMILTON wrote:
> Centre-stapling more than twenty sheets of paper (and it helps to have a
saddleback stapler to do even that) is probably the max -- after that, you
need to chop-and-trim.
>
> I've produced my own copies of 200 page books (Vidocq's _Memoirs_, and Dr.
William Maginn, courtesy of googlebooks, with a pasted-on covers, are
possible, but tricky).
>
> I think the bottom line is that it's pretty straightforward to produce a
forty-page pamphlet, but after that, you're into investing in hardware.
>
> A 200 page book is really fairly straightforward with a duplex printer,
Dahl 515, and a decent heavy-duty stapler.
>
> ... as I say, not exactly rocket science.
>
> R.
>
> {And you can do exactly the same thing cheaper but with a lot more effort
with a bog-standard inkjet and a Stanley knife ...}
>
> The crunch comes in binding, and I don't think there's a way round that
other than an industrial-strength stapler and *looong heavy-duty staples.
>
> UPV glue and perfect-binding *does (pace all the people who've denied
this) sort-of work, but for my own purposes, I've retreated to edge-stapling
anything over forty pages.
>
> Rodent
>
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