Help for newb! Saddle stiched booklets

[wentworth]

You can check with a ruler, or make up 1 booklet and trim it to the marks. You'll soon see any incostistency and identify the offending spread.

thats great! thanks alot for helping me nut it out

[MrKarter77]

thats great! thanks alot for helping me nut it out

This seems to be a hard way of doing things rikkie, if everything was trimmed to a4 with a score, we are talking a really short run here of 100 for this i think it would be easier to trim to A4 first score the a4 books, then stitch flat along the scores, fold and trim creep.

i have the luxury of having a digital press/duplo dbm120/t with a dsf 2000 so its alot easier, before this machine i was doing books by hand for short run with a stitcher. and books were trimmed to a4 before, then creep removed..

[wentworth]

This seems to be a hard way of doing things rikkie, if everything was trimmed to a4 with a score, we are talking a really short run here of 100 for this i think it would be easier to trim to A4 first score the a4 books, then stitch flat along the scores, fold and trim creep.

i have the luxury of having a digital press/duplo dbm120/t with a dsf 2000 so its alot easier, before this machine i was doing books by hand for short run with a stitcher. and books were trimmed to a4 before, then creep removed..

will it be easy enough to trim creep without trimming the cover though? and if so can i do this in stacks of 5 or so?

[MrKarter77]

will it be easy enough to trim creep without trimming the cover though? and if so can i do this in stacks of 5 or so?

i would normally do 2-3, Spending a little extra time cutting and getting them perfect. How many internals on what sort of stock would you be looking at.

If the books are flatter then it would be quite possible to trim more

[wentworth]

i would normally do 2-3, Spending a little extra time cutting and getting them perfect. How many internals on what sort of stock would you be looking at.

If the books are flatter then it would be quite possible to trim more

300gsm/140lb cover with standard copy paper internals (80gsm?)
Approx 6-8 a4pages doubled over to a5.
I just cant imagine it being too easy to trim just creep

[Rikkie]

Hi MrKarter

You are right in saying that it's a long way around. However, if final dimensions are critical, or the cover design calls for a precise cut relative to the design, it is the safer route.