paper size

You can ink at any size you want as long as it's proportional to our final size. Our final book size is 5" by 7.4375", with .125" bleed on the sides, making the size with bleed 5.25" by 7.6875". The 2x and 1.5x sizes listed in the mechanical specs guide are just easy multipliers. If you want to use 1.3x instead, no problem.

Now, if your paper is 7" wide, including bleed, then the height it would need to be to be proportional is 10.25" (which includes bleed). Conversely, if your paper is 10" tall including bleed, then the width of the art should be 6.83" (which includes bleed).

The same kind of calculation should be applied to the safe zone indicated in the guide.

When you scan it in, scan it at 75% (or 76.87%., depending) size so it ends up the correct size in Photoshop, after which any tones you want to use should get added. We use 1200 dpi bitmaps for line art.




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