In my printing class, we have finally gotten a first proof of the magazine that I have been working on since September! The cover, table of contents, and filler pages are all in the magazine and we printed it out. This was a very exciting time and I was a little nervous. We’ve spent so long on this project that it’s amazing to see the light at the end of the tunnel.

As we were beginning to set it up, the first step was to check that the reading order of the magazine was correct. Our printer here at school, affectionately known as Ira, has bindery options inside and can stable the magazine together. That’s why we didn’t need a separate pagination. The reader’s spread works just fine.

Then we had to print the cover on a thicker paper, Heavy 4. The thing about Ira is that she can’t turn heavy paper inside. So we had to manually feed it in to print a filler page as the second page. After all of this, we went back to InDesign to print the rest of the magazine. For this, we had to use bindery printing which allowed us to create a stapled fold and place the cover on top. It printed off and I just had to trim off the creep and bleeds and VIOLA! My first proof of the magazine.