Bleed and overlap/ Wire-O question

Question

I'm doing a square book in InDesign that will be printed using Wire-O. The printer said to use 1/8" bleed, so I'm doing that. I also added a half-inch inner margin (keeping important things farther away than that).

The gutter was auto -et by InDesign. I used squares to create the page colors, of course adding 1/4 bleed on those.

My question is, what do I do with the gutter? Do I push the squares together so that they touch? Or do I leave it empty? What if it was NOT Wire-O, would it make a difference?

Rene Andritsch · Accepted Answer

Oops, here it isOk. So first open the Pages Panel and select all pages starting with the first page then SHIFT clicking the last page. All the thumbnails should be selected now. Then go the Pages Panel flyout menu and deselect the option “Allow Selected Spreads to Shuffle”. All spreads should now have square brackets around their page numbers. Then go to Document Setup and tick off “Facing Pages”. InDesign will ask you if you want to keep the page numbering. Click yes. Now you will be able to move the pages apart from each other. Use the Page Tool for that (Shortcut SHIFT P). Adjust your bleed on the inside if necessary.

Rene Andritsch · Answer

Can you please show a screenshot of your page layout. You are talking about two different values for the bleed. Usually there is only one bleed value. The bleed is necessary if you want to have elements being printed right to the edge of the page (images, type, shapes). The have to extend into and to the edge of the bleed so the cutting to the final format will not introduce areas of just “paper white” if the cutting is moving the paper.

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