Designing DVD Booklet Printer Spreads

Figuring out the correct page sequencing when designing your DVD booklet can be rather confusing for inexperienced designers or if you've never done it before. Sometimes there's a big difference between what 'looks right' and what is 'actually right', and this information on creating Printer Spreads will point you in the correct direction.
If you’d like to add printed biographical information or song lyrics to your DVD manufacturing project or DVD duplication project you will likely need to incorporate a DVD booklet into your budget and designs.

Booklets tend to be more popular than “folders” because we’re much more accustomed to the page turning format of the booklet. Just like a book or magazine, a booklet is folded in half and is stapled in the middle, so they are very compact and easy to browse through.

~ Printer Spread Page Sequencing
Designing the booklet for your DVD manufacturing project or DVD duplication project shares many of the same design rules that apply to every other aspect of your project, but there is one commonly overlooked aspect we want to bring to your attention: Printer Spreads.

Through a whole lifetime of familiarity with books and magazines we know that ‘page 3’ comes after ‘page 2’ and then ‘page 4’ comes after ‘page 3’. This is absolutely correct after a book has been printed, cut, assembled and stitched but you actually have to design it counter-intuitively.

For the purposes of your DVD manufacturing project or DVD duplication project your ‘booklet’ is a series of 2 panel folders that are stacked together, stapled and then folded to create the book. There is a specific page order required to assure the booklet has the correct page sequence after it has been assembled, and this sequence (or page order) is referred to as Printer Spreads.

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