What one run costs in paper

Print once,
cut once

Two publications out of one run

The scheme

The press sheet

Grip edge

Paper

The one cut

Where

A / the programme

Folds

Sheets

B / the catalogue

Folds

Sheets

The family’s height

Spine

The sizes it may use

What packs it

The family

Spine

Width

Across

Pages

What comes off the edge

Bookmarks off the foot as well

The run

Copies

Node

Both publications from the same run

One forme, one pass, one guillotine cut: everything after that is folding, which costs nothing and wastes nothing. The two publications are therefore not designed and then printed — they are whatever the sheet divides into, so the formats are fractions of the paper rather than sizes someone picked. What is left over is only the grip edge. Printed at a node and coded for it, the way the deck proposes.

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