Blank sheets and pages

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Hello everyone

I have seen books composed in Adobe Indesign that, in addition to the courtesy sheets, have other blank sheets and they tell me that it is because the sheets that they use in the printers fit four pages and that the text pages must be multiples of four. can you explain this to me?

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Dave Creamer of IDEAS · Accepted Answer

If you are creating a digital book, you don't have to worry about the page count. Otherwise, talk to your printer and compare costs.

If we are talking about a traditional book publisher, they would tend to print in the largest signatures they can. Signature size would mainly be determined by the press size/type and the page size. If you are using a print-on-demand publisher, you might be down to a 2-page count. If you go strictly by a 4-page count, you might end up with a number of 32-page signatures (two 16s stacked), 16 pagers, 8 pagers, and 4 pagers. It might cost as much to run and 8 and 4 together (12 total) as it would a 16 pager (make ready vs paper costs).

Willi Adelberger · Answer

When you bind pages you are folding them. Fold a single paper, yousee 4 pages. To have a midle spine whole papers are needed, so the page number can be divided by 4 without a rest.

There are different bindings, like wire-o or with clue which have to be divided by 2.

Other production workflows, wheere pages are folded vertically and cut after binding there might be a requirement of 8 or even 16 pages will come out. Mostly in news magazine printing.

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