white margins in magazines (cutting edge & back edge)

[DutchFlower]

Hello all,

My name is Ruud from Holland. I am preparing a magazine (some 60 pages), laid-out in QuarkXPress 5.0. I just had it printed digitally, cut and folded in order to have a first look.

I noticed that when I move from the first (or the last) pages to the center fold, the white margin-space on the cutting edge becomes ever narrower (because cut away in the process by the printing office). Vice versa for the back edge.

There is a way to avoid this and to keep the widths of the white margins of the cutting edge and the back edge the same on EACH page, but I can't find it. Who knows the answer? It would be a great help!

Ruud.

 

[blueark]

It's called 'creep', and it is common in saddle-stitched publications (perfect bound finish doesn't usually suffer).

Usually it is solved through third-party imposition software. Check with whoever is printing the final run if they have a facility to compensate for it. If they don't, you'll either have to manually adjust each page, or buy some software to do it for you.