Reply To: Spreads and prepress

I think Graham and Kristen are talking about different things. Graham is talking about pagination (imposition) — that is, the position of the pages. Kristen is saying this printer wants documents set up as single-sided pages not facing pages… and I think the implication is that they want bleed on all four sides of the page.

This makes no sense to me, for comics, magazines, books, or any other document that is going to be imposed and bound — except for documents that are spiral bound (or some kind of binding where the right edge of a left-hand page does not actually touch the left edge of a right-hand page.

There’s a discussion going on in our Facebook group about this right now, and it’s similarly mysterious and frustrating. Why would a printer ever want bleed on the inside (gutter) in a book or magazine or comic, where the two pages are coming together… unless they really do want a bit of the left page to print on the right and vice versa…?