I encountered a couple of problems in this brief when it came to production, one of them being funding. As my publication contains 55 pages, I had to buy 15(?) pieces of A1 paper at £3.10 each. I couldn’t afford that before Christmas so I had to wait until my loan came in in order to buy it which meant putting the manufacturing of my publication on hold. Outisde of university in the industry this wouldn’t be a problem as the company would have worked out a budget that could be spent on the product, rather than having buying food to live it would be spent on stock, printing and binding materials.
The other problem was the issue of printing on my own stock. The printer in the print room at college can only print on a maximum A3 on stock from elsewhere. This was an issue because the paper from Fred Aldous came in sheets of A1. This meant I had to cut down the A1 pieces to A3, print the pages individually, then cut them out of each sheet of paper and bind it together.
As the print room got ridiculously busy and fully booked up for the week, I had ended up printing on paper from the college in a drop in session where it was only just possible to get it printed. Ideally I would have printed on the stock I bought from Fred Aldous but due to money and time restrictions I wasn't able to.
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Once it was printed the next task was to bind it. I started by just cutting the left hand side with a ruler and scalpel to ensure I got an accurate, clean cut. By just cutting the left side it means I was able to bind it and then cut down the top, right and bottom sides all in one go on the guillotine once it was glued. This makes sure that they are all straight and the pages don't fan out when it's closed.
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