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• • April 22, 2018 at 1:56 pm #103298
    Jedidiah Smith

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    I am printing a booklet in-house and taking it to have the margins trimmed. I would like to have the left side of the cover printed to the edge. This seems doable since it wouldn’t require printing to an outside edge. I created a file for the front and back cover of the booklet, and brought the image to the far left edge of the page, but when I print, it’s still leaving the .25 inch margin on the left edge. Is there any way around this? Thank you!

  • April 22, 2018 at 4:42 pm #103299
    Graham Park

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    If you are using an office printer they usually do not print to the edge, they leave a 5mm or so white boarder all round.
    You said you are sending this our to have the boarders trimmed so the boarder on the cover will also be trimmed off.
    Then the document will have to be bound, so make sure you know how it will be bound and make allowance for this.

    Your other option maybe to print the cover on larger paper (A4 printed on A3) which will allow it to be printed with bleed and trimmed to the full final size.

  • April 22, 2018 at 6:03 pm #103300
    Jedidiah Smith

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    I understand about the border, but the left edge isn’t really an edge of the paper. Since the book is just letter-sized paper folded in half, the left edge of the book isn’t the edge of the paper, so the printer would be capable of printing to the edge, but ID doesn’t allow it. Unless there is a setting I’m missing.

  • April 22, 2018 at 6:51 pm #103301
    Graham Park

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    If you are folding the pages in half then you need to print the first and last page as a spread.
    Make a copy of the Outside Front Cover and place it after the Outside Back Cover (Front on the right, back on the left) and print this with bleed on Top, Bottom and Outside. You may need to adjust the text box sizes to make sure nothing overlaps from front to back.
    Fold between the two pages, trim the edges and you have a self cover page for your publication.

    PS you may need to do the same for the inside front cover if you have text that is to print on the inside

  • April 22, 2018 at 7:18 pm #103302
    Jedidiah Smith

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    Thanks. Can I have this printed along with my booklet though? I have 8 or so ID documents for each (short) chapter of the booklet. They are all added to the book in ID. I want to print the entire book(let) along with the cover and then take it to have it cut.

  • April 22, 2018 at 8:13 pm #103303
    Graham Park

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    I would make one Indesign document just for the Cover and have that as the first document in your book file.
    Then when you print it it will be a spread.
    You are setting the pagination correctly? If you are printing the document and then folding each spread yo have to make sure the correct pages face the correct pages.
    Eg for a 16 page document printed double sided you will have Pages 16 and 1 on one side and 15 and 2 on the opposite side of the paper. So when you fold and collate them they will be in the correct order. The keep following this for page printed page. This is normally done with imposition software not in InDesign, there some scripts to do this.
    If yo have a cover and then 8 sections all that will be staple bound you will have to impose the whole document correctly for it to work when it is folded trimmed and bound. Of course the imposition will be different if it is perfect bound in sections.

  • April 23, 2018 at 9:37 am #103306
    Jedidiah Smith

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    I am using the book feature, so the pagination is done for me. I have the documents in order as they appear in my book, and when I go to print the book, everything prints correctly. The problem is that I want the cover to print along with the rest of the book.

    I’m not manually folding it, the printer is folding and stapling it as a part of the booklet printing feature. The thing that I need is for the left edge of the cover (which is in the center of the paper) to print to the edge. The printer should be able to do this since it’s not an edge of the paper.

  • April 24, 2018 at 4:40 pm #103325
    Colleen Shannon

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    If you’re using Facing Pages, you can export a PDF with no bleed on the inside. Impose in InDesign*, export as PDF with Crops.

    You just have to do it one time, then re-link your PDF when you have changes.
    * https://i.imgur.com/Cu6L5CO.jpg

    This is assuming you are printing just one booklet per sheet.

    There’s also imposition software out there if you do this a lot. https://creativepro.com/?s=impose

    Honestly, I never use the Print Booklet feature in InDesign – too problematic!

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