If you insert a section and set the page orientation to landscape with mirror margins still selected you get this result.
Gutter margin perfect bound section sewn.
Okay so we know the gutter or inside margin on bound books has to be larger than the outer margin but how much.
Side sewn is our standard binding style and the pages are invisibly stitched along the spine to create a curved gutter.
Section sewn also called smythe sewing thread is sewn through the folded centers of each section of pages.
Smyth sewn also known as section sewn book bindings are the highest quality book binding available on the market today it is the hallmark of library quality archival safe books because the pages are physically sewn into the book using binders thread and further reinforced with fabric backing and adhesive to create the most usable and.
Section sewn books open easily and lie a bit flatter than side sewn books.
These two products have binding types that are clamped and held together with glue.
Accordingly all page content within 0 25 inch of the gutter will be hidden in the binding in the final book.
Pages sewn together before assembly.
Every book varies slightly when bound.
Note that the.
Moffett side sewn binding requires pages to be sewn 0 25 inch from the gutter when bound.
Let s take a 6 x 9 book as an example.
We only print spine text on books with more than 100 pages.
You will need to add a spine on this cover file.
You can see in the preview that the inside margin alternates from right to left.
A cover file and a text page file.
We suggest allowing at least a 1 2 margin on the binding edge of each page of your book and at least a 1 4 margin at the top bottom and outside edges of each page.
When this happens the pages have to face cut and you can lose as much as 25 inches off the outside margin.
A gutter is the section of the page that leads into the binding of perfect bound books and hard cover books.
Allow for 0 0625 1 6 mm variance on either side of the fold lines for your cover barcodes.
No offset of spread images across the gutter is required for any binding type except moffett side sewn binding.
Other forms of binding.
Text on larger spines must be sized to fit the spine with at least 0 0625 1 6 mm of space between the text and the edge of the spine.
Learn how to prepare print ready artwork for a perfect bound book.
So what is a gutter margin.
For a typical novel or narrative nonfiction book of about 200 pages i would start off with an outside margin of 75 and a gutter margin of 875.
Side sewn thread is sewn through all of a book s pages about 1 8 inch from the binding edge of the pages.
This process will cause a curve of the pages coming from the spine when the book is open.
For perfect bound books we need two files.
A hires pdf file for the cover and inner cover.
