Guides

Practical walkthroughs for designing, printing, and folding zines. Most are short and home-printer friendly.

• Choosing paper for zines

  Paper weight (gsm), finish, and color choices for home printing - what works, what to avoid.

• Choosing a printer for zines

  Ink tanks vs cartridges, inkjet vs laser, dye vs pigment, and the spec sheet details that actually matter.

• Useful tools for making zines

  Folding bone, the right stapler, ruler, cutter - the few inexpensive tools that visibly improve the finished zine.

• How imposition works (and why it matters for printing booklets)

  The page-reordering rule that makes a folded booklet read in sequence, illustrated for an 8-page zine and extended to saddle stitch at any size.

• How to make a half-fold zine from a PDF

  Step-by-step from PDF upload through to the stapled booklet, with notes on what to set in the studio.

• Printing RPG zines at home

  Recommended Zine Creator settings, paper picks, and stapler choices for indie RPG zines (Mothership, MÖRK BORG, Solitary Defilement) in the 24 to 48 page saddle-stitch sweet spot.

• Printer settings for duplex zines

  Double-sided printing tips, troubleshooting upside-down back pages, and manual duplex when your printer can't do it automatically.

• FAQ

  Symptom-first answers to the most common print-side problems: off-centre folds, upside-down back pages, and others.

• Supported PDF input and output formats

  What Zine Creator accepts (PDF versions, page sizes, CropBox, encryption) and what it produces (sheet sizes, layouts, output settings) - plus what is not supported.