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cuig - 22 Oct 2007 17:51 GMT

I have a 32-page booklet laid out. The printer says there is too much coor
for the "budget," so I am reducing color.

As I understand it, one sheet of four pages is color or b/w.

If I put four color pages on one sheet, back-to-back, instead of spreading
them out across the booklet, will this work as one color page?

Thanks.

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Mary Sauer - 22 Oct 2007 20:07 GMT

Did you talk this over with your printer? Maybe you can do with a colorful
cover... He/she should have advised you how he/she handles this.

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>I have a 32-page booklet laid out. The printer says there is too much coor
> for the "budget," so I am reducing color.
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> Thanks.

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Odysseus - 23 Oct 2007 00:27 GMT

> I have a 32-page booklet laid out. The printer says there is too much coor
> for the "budget," so I am reducing color.
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> If I put four color pages on one sheet, back-to-back, instead of spreading
> them out across the booklet, will this work as one color page?

That depends on how the booklet is being printed & bound. For example,
if it's being run in eight-page signatures and saddle-stitched, pages 1,
4, 29, & 32 will typically end up on the same side of a printed sheet.
(The other seven combinations in such a layout would be 2-3-30-31,
5-8-25-28, 6-7-26-27, 9-12-21-24, 10-11-22-23, 13-16-17-20, &
14-15-18-19.) However, the colour section could be run as a four-page
"work & turn", putting pages 1, 2, 31, & 32 together e.g. -- but this
might create complications in bindery (and would require one black
section to be done as a W&T as well). In general you will *not* be able
to separate any pairs of pages of a saddle-stitched book whose numbers
add to 33, because they'll always be printed side-by-side (making a
"printer's spread").

If the booklet is being coil-bound or similar, it may be possible to
group an arbitrarily chosen set of four pages on one side, but I
wouldn't make any assumptions before conferring with the printer.

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