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BINDING:
Heads up! You may want to avoid staples for binding your printed copy of this zine. This zine changes and grows. Old pages get revised. New ones get inserted beween old ones. So if you plan to keep your copy of the zine up to date, you may wish to use a flexible binding method, such as a 3-ring binder full of sheet protectors. Ya, my favorite binding method is to first put a bunch of clear, top loading sheet protectors into a 3-ring binder. Sheet protectors have holes already punched in them for the bider. No hole-punching needed. Then I put the actual paper pages into the sheet protectors, in the proper order. (If you forget the page order, you'll need to look at the PDF document on your computer because the zine has NO PAGE NUMBERS!) Sheet protectors can usually hold even two sheets of paper, if needed. Because I use those 3-ring binders with the page-display "windows" on the outside, I put an extra copy of the front cover page into the front "window" and a corresponding extra back cover page in the back "window". |
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PRINTING MACHINES:
Best results come from laser or LED printers. The graphic resolution for the zine is 300dpi. Most any laser printer you'll encounter can handle that. |
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PAPER THICKNESS:
If you print single-sidedly (image on one side of the paper only), you can print on any thikness of paper you want. If you print double-sidedly (images on both sides of the paper, aka "duplex"), you should use thick paper to avoid seeing faint images showing through the paper. By this I mean, thin paper will produce the situation in which you are reading page 1, and get distracted by seeing the faint, reverse images from page 2 transposed behind the words you are reading. Thick paper reduces this problem. |
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OTHER PEOPLE'S PRINTING MACHINES:
So you have no decent printer. Use someone else's But you will likely need to put the PDF documents onto a high-capacity disc of some kind so you can bring the zine to the printer in question. (Like, burn a CD, totally.) A place like Kinko's charges TOO MUCH. I mean, if you use their little rent-a-computer-n-printer setup it will cost about $50.00 for one 82-page copy. Try sneaking a print at work. See if you can sneak into a "public" computer-n-printer area like a college computer center or library computer space. Hell, if you happen to be a college student anyway, there's your answer. The zine is, after all, quite educational. You can, in a last ditch effort, hire the good staff and equipment of Kinko's to copy it for you from your disc full of PDF's. But I mean, this may only prove economical if for some reason you wanted 10 or more copies made. If you do this, save yourself extra setup-charge by merging all the PDF documents into one document first. (At this time, I do not know how to do this, so don't ask me. I only know that it CAN be done.) |