I was originally going to get the book printed in the digital print room at college, however at that time the print room was fully booked out and the print room technician was ill, making it almost impossible to get it printed in college. When thinking about how i was going to resolve this problem, i though back to the whole concept of a zine and how they were usually low budget productions with certain unique qualities such as the differences between each one whilst making, binding or printing. It was due to this i decided to print my book on the standard printers around the college. As the images were quite small i knew that it wouldn't effect the quality all that much but there were certain aspects of printing it this was that i really liked. The first being how cheap it was to print (£1.50 each copy) and that each print may be aligned ever so slightly different to each other, giving it a more organic hand produced feel, something that is synonymous with zines.
Printing was fairly easy as I was able to use my knowledge from the indesign workshops to print it. I was able to set it up to print 2 up saddle stitch making it incredibly easy to bind together as all the pages were in the correct order.
For the front cover I am going to screen print. This is again inspired by cost considerations for production. With a screen print it is very easy to do multiple pulls really quickly and the ink and medium is incredibly cheap. Not only that but by using the facilities in college, i was able to re-purpose ink that people had finished with, again cutting down on the cost. Another reason i chose screen printing is because the print is not always the same/perfect on every pull and that would be chance id have to take when printing on to my books but I really like that aspect of printing as it makes every print unique.
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