June 1975 General Procedure for Layout and Paste-up Assemble tools and organize work area. Gather together copy, graphics and photos. Make a mock-up book. A mock-up book is a little model copy of the paper, showing the layout. The pages are proportional in size to the actual paper and the book has the same number of pages. Number the pages. Start with cover and sketch it in. Then go to page 2 and-in the case of RAlN-sketch in the masthead, other credits and the introductory letter. Then decide where to put any special pages, such as ECO-Net reports, the Media Guide or whatever. Go back to page two and fill in the regular columns. The mock-up book should be fairly detailed, showing the placement of column heads, photos, graphics, any other headlines, etc. Proofread. Before being pasted down, the copy should be proofread against the original copy. Mark mistakes on the copy by drawing a light line through them with a nonreproducing blue pen. Never, never, never mark the copy with anything that is not non-reproducing blue. Limit marks to words involved, as all pens but felt-tipped will smear the copy. On a separate piece of paper, make a list of the corrections as follows: Starting with the word in the line which has a mistake, write out the rest of the line correctly, if the copy has been set with proportional spacing or if the error doesn't have the right number of letters in it. Note the page number and column where the correction goes. A correction list would look something like this' pg6 actively seeking Dersons Carefully cut them out and stick them over the incorrecr ' copy. Be careful to cut them out so the paper doesn't cover any other type by mistake. I find a glue stick handy for putting on corrections. Paste-up. I find it easier to s.tart paste-up with the things which I know will take a specific amount of space (or number of pages), for example the cover, the back page, and ECO-Net Reports. Next, I go back to the beginning, follow the mock-up book and keep track of the number of inches as I paste-up the columns. I usually do a rough paste-up, block out where things will go, decide how big to make charts and graphics, and adjust things to fit as I go. Once I'm sure everything will fit in, or have decided what to leave out, I go back to the beginning and do a final paste-up. This means being sure the copy is straight, putting on lines, making a list of page continuations, graphic and photo credits, captions that are needed, and double-checking the sizes of the windows. Make a list of strip-ins for the printer. Take a separate piece of paper and, starting with page 1, go through your layout boards and write down the page number, the item to be shot separately and stripped in, the percentage at which it is to be shot. The list looks like this: Finish paste-up, put on remaining corrections, etc., and read over for a final time to be sure it all makes sense. It is a good idea to have two different people look it over. Some printers expect the pages to be assembled in press order. It is easiest to do layout with the pages which will be facing each other in print next to each other, so you can see them in relation to each other. However, when the printer makes the negatives and plates, they have to be arranged so they will come out in the right order when they are printed. One way to do this is to take the mockNote that all the pairs add up to 25. You could aiso put the pages of a twenty-four-page issue together by remembering the even numbered page goes on the left side and the pairs of page numbers should add up to 25. For a twenty-page issue, the pairs of page numbers would total 21. To figure it out for any given number of pages, just add one to the number of pages. In order to fit on the press correctly, the print area of the pages has to be a certain distance apart in the center between the two pages. For R1IN this distance is 1-I/2". The pages in the middle of the publication (the cenrerfold) can have the print run right across this area ("bleed"): The other pages should not. Put the finished layout boards, the mock-up book, the photos and graphics to be stripped in and the list of where the strip-ins go together in a box or envelope. Write up a note for the printer which includes the number of pages in the issue, any information about different paper or ink color, the number of copies to be printed, the name and phone number of the person the printer should contact if there are questions or problems, and any other information you feel necessary. Tape the note to the outside of.the box or envelope, deliver it to the printer, and you've finished. There are several references in this article to the book Printing /t. I highly recommend it to anyone who is thinking of pasting-up a photo-offset publication. It goes into much more detail than I have been able to do here. -Mary Wells Printing It A Guide to Graphic Techniques for the Impecunious by Clifford Burke with Illustrations Ballantine Books, 101 Fifth Avenue New York, N.Y. Page 25 up book and open it up flat. Then tape the pages together in the order in which they are in the mock-up book. The even numbered pages will always be on the lift side. The centerfold will not have to be changed. For a 24-page paper, the pages should be taped as follows: LEFT SIDE RIGHT SIDE 24 22 20 18 16 14 12 (center-fold) 10 8 6 4 2 by Chuck Miller Inc. r-0003 1 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 t7 r9 21 )1 F-
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