Printing my books

With the constant work of making the studios exhibition ready, finishing my work and setting up my exhibition space I've realised that I completely forgot to blog about printing out my two books for said exhibition.
The first I printed out was 'Absolution' my comic book. This one was relatively it is only 44 pages so I did a standard saddle-stitch binding that the printer can do automatically. I printed it on paper bigger than the book size, because bleed and then cut it down and the book was done. I actually had to add in pages to give myself a number divisible by 4 that is needed to print a book this way. Also the first one I printed I noticed a lot of my blacks weren't that black so I had to alter the files and reprint it.

My style art book, titled 'Drawing Style' was more complicated. For one thing there were 80 pages, this meant it was too thick to saddle stitch so I would have to perfect bind it. I was told this could be done using a strip at the side or with a wraparound cover. The cover way seemed nicer so I chose that way. This meant I had to print out the inside pages first, measure how thick they were together (on silk coated paper) and add that to the cover size so it could wrap around all of the book. Like before I had to print all the pages on bigger paper, (because bleed) this meant A4 in this case and then cut them down. I then got a binding strip and used a perfect binding machine to glue the inside pages together, then later do the same with the inside and the cover/back cover page. I'm really pleased with how both books turned out, they are different but think they both work best for what they are, a comic book and a what is essentially a fashion catalogue that is purely illustrated.