Preping files for making saddle stitched book

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Blankshield:
Heya Seth,

There's not much anything home-available will let you do about the margin creep.  My advice: have wider margins.  White space is generally a positive for readability anyway.

Try a lighter weight of paper; 20lb instead of 24 will make a difference, but if you're doing saddlestitch, the pages will nest inside each other, and at more than about 16 pages (4 sheets), it gets noticeable.

James

Seth M. Drebitko:
  Hmm bumping it down to 20lb would not really dent the quality that much (and would make the cover look sturdier -_^), I think by reducing the thickness of the paper the margin creep will probably be hardly noticeable. Do you think by getting an inexpensive paper folder the folds being more "perfect" would help this also?
Regards, Seth

Eero Tuovinen:
If you're trying to make some sort of serious booklet, it's not too much trouble to measure the creep and shift the text columns on each page accordingly by hand. (Depends on your layout software, of course) You only need to cut your sample copy to size and then measure the middle spread vs. the first page; increase the outer margin in uniform steps from the first page to the middle spread, then decrease towards the end of the booklet.

Having wider margins is also a good idea simply because you won't be cutting the booklet machine-exact anyway. More white space means that smaller irregularities (and margin creep) disappear in proportion.

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