CoP3: Zine Printing

After giving it some thought, I decided to rework my zine to make it more friendly to people who might have a vague knowledge of politics but not really understand who certain people are. So I decided to have a character introduction section at the beginning of my zine. This was done with the hopes of expanding the following that would read my work as, I feel, the audience is potentially quite limited. The digital version of these pages can be seen below:

Due to the layout of the pages, I faced a problem with the printing order so had to print out a copy, separate the individual pages and stick them together to understand how the book should be laid out in InDesign (see Print Version 2). I then gave some thought to the colour stock I was using. With the book being printed in black and white, for costing reasons, I decided to add some colour by way of the cover. This print came out terribly due to the over use of ink (see Print Version 3). To remedy this I removed all texture from the page and made the title text black. The next print (see Print Version 4) came out exactly as I had desired.

The different prints can be seen below:


Whilst the process of figuring out the best print method was frustrating, I feel that I finally have a product work showing to people. I'm going to take a number of the final prints to Thought Bubble in a few weeks to gauge reaction from the general public.