Regarding whether you submit the brochure pages as spreads versus individual pages I don't think really matters to the printer. I generally prefer pages to come in as individual pages myself but others may prefer the other. As long as the printer understands how the final brochure is to look i.e. has the correct page order etc. then they should be good to go. Depending on what equipment the printer is running the brochure on will affect how the pages get plated anyway. That being said I did download your files and looked at them. There are several issues that jumped out at me right away and so I will pass them on to you. Some of them may or may not be a big deal but you should at least be aware of them. First of all you did not include the Packaged InDesign artwork. Not a big deal but because I did not have it to look at I cannot confirm if you placed the DIELINE at 100%. I am going to just go ahead and assume that you did although the final folder size seems a bit off to me. 1. Brochure size is 11.00" x 8.50" (Not a problem. Just observing) 2. Folder size is: 11.00" x 8.75". (Typically a folder will be a bit larger on both dimensions. Here it is only larger on the one dimension. I would have expected this folder to be 11.25" wide so that the pages of the brochure fell inside the outside edges of the folder. That being said perhaps you wanted the pages to be flush with the edge of the pocket folder. My concern would be that after saddle stitching several pages thick they are going to stick out just a bit further then 11.00" and will be sticking out beyond the edge of your pocket folder. This is why I mentioned above that I thought the size for the pocket folder seemed a bit odd to me. If you are going to make a pocket folder to hold 11.00" x 8.50" papers inside the pocket you would want the pocket to be 11.25" wide. But perhaps this is a CUSTOM DIE made just for your job. Even so I still think it should be a quarter inch wider. Or your brochure should be a quarter inch smaller - 10.75" x 8.50". 3. You do not have any BLEED on the OUTSIDE righthand edge of the front cover. The BLUE stripe should bleed a full 1/8" past the edge of the DIELINE. The DIE will NEVER strike in EXACTLY the correct spot each time. Well the DIE itself will but the registration in the printing process and/or loading the item into the diecutter can vary. Generally it doesn't vary much. Usually up to 1/32" but at times it can be as much as 1/16". This is why we always use 1/8" bleed as a standard. That way if both the press and the diecutter mis-register by 1/16" you still have enough print to cover it. 4. On the inside artwork it does not appear that you have a full 1/8" bleed. You should provide a minimum of 1/8" bleed on all areas that print right up to the edge of the DIELINE. 5. On the inside artwork for your pocket folder I just wanted to make sure you realized that the bottom 4" of your artwork will be covered by the POCKET FLAP that folds up. Basically the bottom row of pictures will not be seen. And the middle row of pictures will have their bottom halves cut off. You will only see the heads and necks of the two gentlemen in the middle pic. You won't even see the yellow tie on the one gentleman. And your donor list will only show the top five in the list. The sixth one will be split in half. And all the donors below #6 will be covered by the flap. So you may want to re-think how you are going to do your artwork on this part of the project. You could print the bottom row of pictures on the outside of the flap and the bottom half of your donor list. But that can get tricky. You would need to resize them so that the top of the flap hit right on the gutter between rows of pictures. But the donor list would be difficult to have it look good. Anyway, just thought I would point that out. 6. Last but not least. You are printing the word "Thank You" on the outside of the FLAP which will be visible as the front of the FLAP when the folder is opened. However, I couldn't help but notice that the printer is cutting two diagonal slits in the FLAP for you so you can insert a Business Card. A standard Business card is 3.50" x 2.00" in size. Your "Thank You" is 5.375" x 1.25" in size. This means that when you put your business card in the slits part of the word "Tha ou!" will show on either side of the business card. I am guessing that you don't want that to happen? If you are not planning on placing business cards in the pocket folder then it may not be an issue. You might even ask the printer to not cut the slits in it. But that would require them altering their die so depending on whether the die is being made exclusively for your project or not could affect whether they would want to do that. We have common dies in our shop that we use for multiple customers because they are standard items such as pocket folders. And so if a customer requested one without the business card slits we would add the cost of having another die produced for their job to the quote. O.K. I didn't mean to ruin your day. Just giving you my feedback/advice based on the files you uploaded for our review. It's better to catch and fix these issues now rather then lamenting over the finished project with the boo boos in place. 😉 Randy "The Print Craftsman"
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