Cover Design

• Cover design is a separate Adobe Illustrator (Ai) file. Set this cover size landscape orientation.
  This size should include the front, back plus inside flaps 

sample sizes. Modify accordingly

Print Cover

• Be sure your Ai doc is saved in RGB
• Convert cover text to outlines
• Be sure to bleed any image that touches the edges of your design
  • create bleed from the Document Setup window
  • extend images out to the red bleed lines
• Change the orientation of your Cover design to vertical or Portrait orientation.
  • first rotate the artboard 90 degrees
  • second, select your design, group all parts, rotate 90 degrees
  • make sure your design is aligned to the new vertical artboard
• Cover paper is BFK Rives paper 
• Print to the Epson SC 6000
  • manual feed
  • use the standard or plain paper profile
  • custom page size

 Binding and Assembly

• Add a blank page before the first page and also after the last page. The cover flaps will fold around these blank pages.
• Fold the cover in the exact middle first, then fold 1/2 inch on either side of center. This will be the spine.
• Punch the hols for all pages using the comb binding machine
• With the cover folded in half, punch the holes for the cover.
• Still with the cover folded in half. thread it on to the comb binding with all the pages.
• Mark the flaps where they should fold to neatly wrap the first and last pages.