Need Help w/ Making Tri Fold Pamphlet

[Jeff Kelley]

Fold a piece of paper the way you want it. Write 1, 2, 3 etc on each panel, unfold. Done. Sometimes a little extra is given on the last panel but that’s optional.

[Espnetboy3]

Yes I know that im asking about the space you leave in between the folds. I remember when i was taking classes back in school about ink bleeds and what not. I used Quark for all of this but the place that im doing my work does not have quark.

[Espnetboy3]

I have an 8.5 by 11 normal piece of paper that I need to make into a tri fold and I am still a little unclear on how to go about setting this up in Illustrator. Mainly because I will need to setup the document so that i will have text and what not on the back of the paper. Do I feed the paper through the printer twice to achieve this? Any help asap would be great.

[Richard Harrington]

Paper gets fed twice…

Suggest lightly scoring paper and marking panels… then feeding through Mark topa nd bottom and number ‘pages’

Then make template in AI that does the same… get them both to line up and you are good to go

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[Michael Munkittrick]

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[Jeff Kelley]

Hey, I wasn’t joking. Fold up an 81/2 by 11 into the tri fold you want. Mark it and then unfold it. You have you template. Set up the pannels in illustrator exactly the same. On a 8 1/2 by 11, don’t worry about gutters in between the panels. I was in printing for years and use to set up these all the time and that’s how we use to do it. The only bleed you have to worry about is outside the sheet itself and a 8th of an inch will do.