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A little tip for reinforcing holes in inserts you print yourself...
ReplyDeleteHaving recently printed some 3-page foldouts, and knowing that their holes can be vulnerable, due to the increased leverage on them, I made a simple reinforcement by leaving a small margin at the bound edge when I trimmed the pages. I then folded that at the page edge, and glued it down with a glue stick before punching holes. It seems to have worked nicely, and is unobtrusive.
I have modified my page imposition script to draw the reinforcement flap, as my composed page PostScript already includes the value for the binding margin (the gap from the bound edge to the drawn page area).
That is an excellent idea Kevin, I’d not thought of that!
DeleteI’m not entirely sure why, but I really struggle with hole punching, centering where the holes are is fine but getting the holes straight and not (as I regularly do) half on and off the page so they are proper holes at the top and half holes at the bottom is elusive. Drives me nuts. Slightly different but similar - Gluing a separate strip onto the mess and going again would also save me a lot of paper!
The 'throat' on many punches is poorly defined, and often too deep (especially multi-punches like the Rapesco), so it can be hard to get the paper insertion depth correct (important for the smaller page sizes), especially when you're trying to juggle paper alignment to put the holes in the right place, depth & 'rotation'... I mark the punched hole outlines on my inserts, and use either a hollow core punch and hammer, or a paper drill for bigger stacks of inserts.
DeleteThat's a good idea.
DeleteAnd as long as the two folds do not overlap, the reinforcement fold does not add up to the total thickness, even with a single foldout.
Hans
Yes; my only concern is that each of the folded pages is the width of the full page less the binding margin (as used for the reinforcement fold), so there is potential for the fold to *just* snag on the reinforcement, where they meet (if cropped & folded accurately, or even more likely if not folded accurately...)
Deletedo you have any tutorials for making inserts available on this blog/would you be willing to make a tutorial? I really want to make my own inserts but I really struggle with using word to do so. thanks in advance -Mimi
ReplyDeleteIf you want to use existing templates to print your own inserts, check out this page, which includes links to notes on how to use them:
Deletehttps://philofaxy.blogspot.com/p/files.html
Diary inserts, and video tutorials on how to use them, can be found here:
https://philofaxy.blogspot.com/p/diary-inserts.html
If your post was inspired by my discussion of my own page composition, printing, cropping & punching, then I have to tell you that I use a lot of custom-written scripts to create PostScript directly, that allows be to do page imposition for printing at the correct size. You'd have to be familiar with Unix & AWK scripts to use them; a bit arcane, and rather hacked together. They do allow me to produce inserts at any page size I like.
If you already have a PDF file of single pages you want to impose for printing (e.g. 4 Pockets sheets on A4), then I would recommend Montax Imposer. A bit of a learning curve, but it does a great job. And is free for the sort of imposition required for home printing.
Curious if anyone spotted the ring bound planners in the second last (maybe?) episode of Legends. I was ill yesterday so binged the 6 episodes.
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