First let s look at the basics.
Book printing gutter.
The book fold layout sets you up for printing your masterpiece automatically in the correct order ready for folding and binding.
For most books an additional 0 2 or 0 3 inches on the inside edge of the page is plenty to create a gutter.
This process will cause a curve of the pages coming from the spine when the book is open.
But for a book with full page images and most importantly two page spreads the gutter requires a bit of added attention.
Whether you want to create a booklet for an event or print out an ambitious book project consider using the pre built page settings for booklets that comes with word.
By default the gutter margin will be set to 0.
Consequently i always make the gutter margins on books intended for print on demand larger to make sure the type doesn t disappear into the gutter making it difficult to read.
A gutter is the section of the page that leads into the binding of perfect bound books and hard cover books.
For more information on bleed see our print options help page.
Gutter margin margins are the blank spaces around the type area on a book page but the inside margin has the special name gutter and it is always the margin on the bound edge of the book page.
This could cause issues further on as the gutter margin is the amount of space between the content of your book and the fold where the pages of the book will be bound together.
That said go ahead and give the gutter a 1 margin so the content of your book doesn t get lost in the fold.
Every page has three outside margins top bottom and side and one inside margin also called the gutter.
The gutter is the space between each copy of your postcard on the press sheet.
For example if you are printing a postcard multiple copies of the postcard will fit on a single press sheet.
And all kinds of page layout software even ms word can automatically add a gutter to your specifications with ease.
Let s say you have a print book that is 5 25 wide by 8 tall.
On books intended for offset it depends on the number of pages longer books need more gutter margins and kind of binding perfect binding creates tighter spines.
Gutters are setup during the prepress phase of the printing process and something your printer will handle once your design files are handed off.
Setting a gutter margin.
Here is what you need to know about gutter margins.
The video and step by step instructions explain how to set page size and margins for books with and without bleed.
