Printing on 7" x 8.5" paper

Hi,

I want to print up a booklet and have it bound @ Staples with their metal wire binder.

I will be using the booklet for reference, but it won't be heavy usage. I will also have their tab pages added because it is going to have 40 or so sections.

I figure maybe 65 wt paper, but what I really am interested in doing is to print it landscape on legal paper cut in half. The paper would be 8.5" vertical and 7" wide.

At this point I am thinking in terms of cutting the paper before feeding. It will be printed double sided.

My last choice will be to have Staples print it for me…

I am using Pages, the Apple native program similar to MS Word.

So my questions are

1. Can I print double sided on that size paper?

2. Can I print it so that I do not have to cut it first? Seems to me that it would be confusing to get the pages in order.

@flyboy, you’ll have your work cut out for you with this project.

You have worked out some of the details but that’s as far as it goes, because there’s a lot more to be considered.

Now to start with trying to do any booklet work in a word processor Application is going to be extremely difficult, your paper size and orientation choice will be your first hurdle to overcome, (Landscape).

You’d be better to do your layout and to print the pages single 8.5 x7, that will over come your page layout problem, and you can then do the pages numerically 1 to 50 say.

Now name and save that document, then you’ll have to make two more different documents one with a left margin and another with a right margin, then cut and paste each separate page into each document, Left/Right

As your finished booklet is going to be spiral bound it can be printer as odd pages first with left margin and then backed up with even pages with the right margin, but it would be far easier do in this job QuarkXPress or InDesign.

Before you print anything do a test run with 3 sheets, total 6 pages to familiarise yourself with the layout and to test the paper for image seepage, the heaver the paper stock the more opaque it will be.

There is so much more to watch out for but I reckon its time to leave it in your capable hands, have fun and good luck and happy Birthday to you..

I love projects like this..
P.S. handing it over to Staples to do, won’t guarantee that it will be done correctly !..