Gutter In Book Printing

A gutter is the section of the page that leads into the binding of perfect bound books and hard cover books.

Gutter in book printing.

When you re looking at a book page spread you ll have two gutters together doubling the apparent space. Sj a book with a gutter margin of 167 if that s what you mean would be almost unreadable and that s why i recommend a minimum gutter margin of 75 in most cases. So nothing is lost when the book is held open. The gutter is the amount of the book that you lose to the binding process.

For most books an additional 0 2 or 0 3 inches on the inside edge of the page is plenty to create a gutter. I haven t used quark for years but yes the master pages would need to be adjusted for the new margins but heck it s a lot easier to fix a few masters than to fix every page in the book manually right. The gutter is the space between each copy of your postcard on the press sheet. Imagine a novel with text disappearing into the binding.

The gutter goes on the left side of right hand pages and on the right side of left hand pages. So yes you have a half inch margin on the left and the right to have white space to keep your book easy to read. Gutter margin margins are the blank spaces around the type area on a book page but the inside margin has the special name gutter and it is always the margin on the bound edge of the book page. This process will cause a curve of the pages coming from the spine when the book is open.

For example if you are printing a postcard multiple copies of the postcard will fit on a single press sheet. Gutter is the term that refers to the spacing between the copies on the press sheet which is important to allow for bleeds and trimming. But in addition to that margin you also want a gutter.