Printing and Making the Zine

Today we chose to make the Zine, we had previously looked at the ways in which we can create the zine and what would be the best for the publication and would be easiest for us too achieve.
We chose to firstly paginate the piece on indesign and print out the work fully paginated. Then after the work was printed we then chose to go down too book binding to make the work.

With the help of Hillary and Caitlin we then used the crease machine to get a good crease on the cover then hand folded the other pages in the middle or in some cases where the images met. Once the pages were paginated and constructed, Caitlin then helped us by stapling the pieces of paper together, which was the method we had preferred rather than that of making it by using the 5 stitch method, as the staples would be quicker and cleaner as I was not very good at doing hands on work. The last thing we did was to compress the pieces to make the book flatter and neater. The next stage in the process is too guillotine to remove the over hanging edges ( I can't remember the technical book binding work), this would therefore make the piece more professional and neater.

Making the booklet was a relatively easy process, from the construction of the work as it wasn't very technically difficult, however the biggest problem lay in the problem with printing the pieces as many of the printers were broken and actually sending the files too the printers came with problems due too their file size.