Are you ready to launch your next booklet or magazine… but have no idea how to prepare it for printing? We’ve heard the horror stories of booklet designs that looked fantastic on screen, yet when it came to printing, they ended up with incorrectly aligned pages that made all the work seem like nothing. But worry no more! At Trendz Print Media, we have come up with the perfect solution for booklet printing that will take your marketing material to the next level. In this blog, we will be explaining some simple steps for designers to follow when they want to set up their booklets using InDesign. What’s even better – we only use the newest InDesign software in-house to help all of our clients come up with flawless booklets, regardless if they are designers or not! Our graphic designers can help you with the task!

Here are some simple tips to follow for booklet setup:

1- In Indesign, choose “Create New Document.” You can specify the page size and number of pages in the menu. Make sure the option “Facing Pages” is checked. This will let you see the layout of your booklet with pages side by side.

2- Click on “More Options” to adjust your Bleed, at the bottom of the menu. Having a bleed is extremely important when printing a booklet! The bleed area is where all elements of your design should extend to if you want to have seamless graphics going all the way to the edge of your page. Otherwise, you can end up with undesired white borders! Set your bleed to 0.125″ on all edges.

3- You can adjust your Margins to be any size – they are there to help you keep your important text and graphics into one zone to preserve alignment and consistency. To be safe, NEVER make your margins less than 0.125″ (same as bleed area). This creates a safe zone for all of your design elements. The most common size is 0.5″ on all edges.

4- Click “Ok”. Depending on the number of pages of your document, you will see how InDesign accommodates your pages to be side by side. The red margins are where your bleed extends, and the purple margins are your safe zones. Now you can start designing!

5- Whenever you are ready to send your booklet to print, select “File – Export…” and choose “Adobe PDF (Print)” from the format menu. Click “Ok”. You will see a new PDF menu with some specifications.

6- Choose “High Quality Print” in Adobe PDF Presets. Then, click on “Marks and Bleeds” on your left side menu. Make sure you check “Use Document Bleed Settings.” If you don’t, the bleed you specified in your document will be ignored!

7- Click “Export”. Now you have a perfectly designed booklet ready to go to print!

Don’t forget to check out our video for more detailed instructions!

At Trendz Print Media we never shy away from the complex projects, we are a Vancouver Printing Company that excels under pressure.   One of our recent big project’s we took on was a complex one, which had a very tight deadline.  We were asked by the interior designer of a new restaurant called Rhino’s Kitchen in Richmond B.C., to do a massive interior wall tattoo wrapping project.

The project itself entailed the staff of Trendz Print Media Printing, Laminating, cutting, and doing graphic installation of panels throughout the restaurant.  In total we printed and installed approximately 3000 sqft of vinyl for this particular project, and we had less then a week to do so.   For this particular project the scheduling was so tight we would proof the graphics with the client, then our Vancouver Graphic Design team resize them so they were print ready.   Majority of these panels were black with a grey pattern running through it with either a repeated square pattern, or a black wood grain pattern.   The tricky thing about printing graphics like this is making sure when your printing with 1 basic color which is black, is to make sure that the rip in the software is able to pick up the tone differences in the colors, as well as making sure you don’t run into banding.   Before we did a large panel run we went through an extensive color proofing process to make sure we didn’t run into either one of these problems.

Once we had all graphics approved and had or color tones matched perfectly, we printed all of our panels on an intermediate Avery Gloss Calendar vinyl.  Once panels are printed they cure for 24hours, which allows the ink to settle properly.    After the panels dry for 24 hours, we finish off the printing panels by applying a protective gloss lamination, and then we trim the panels to size.   Last but not least comes installation.

In order to complete this project on time all of our Vancouver Printing, was started at 6am, and we had install crews go into the restaurant late at night and install sometime until 1am.  When Trendz takes on a project we are committed to it and we go he distance to make sure its done right and done on time.  So if you require a time sensitive, high quality printing project contact us today for your customized print quote.

Here are some kind words the client had to say about us:

“This print shop went above and beyond for me project. I was in a rush and needed over 2000sqft of vinyl printing and wall tattoo printed and installed in a restaurant. The staff here when into overdrive and printed during the day and installed at night. There were nights where they didn’t leave until 1am in the morning. This to me is dedication, reliability and flexibility. They worked with me as a team to fulfill the task.

Their printing is top quality and their installation was perfect! Thank you Trendz Print Media. 

I would highly recommend this Vancouver print shop for all your printing needs.”

How many times have you come across, horribly printed flyers, bad business card printing, or a tacky post card printing?  Personally I have come across it more then I can count!  I always ask myself the same question what’s the point in spending money at any Vancouver printing company, if you’re not promoting yourself properly?

There’s no point!  So don’t waste your time or your money if it’s not something you’re proud to showcase!

What Can Good Print Design Services do for You?

Good print design services are crucial when you create any communication piece for your business like:

• Post cards
• Business cards
• Flyers
• Magnets
• Vehicle wraps
• Folders

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