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if you have some 4-16 pages to print, do yourself a favour and print them in booklet format and then just bind them with a stapler. It's easier if you use A4,
by _ZeD_ 6y ago
if you have some 4-16 pages to print, do yourself a favour and print them in booklet format and then just bind them with a stapler.
It's easier if you use A4, so that the ending page (A5) has the same ratio of the original.
- nightcracker 6y agoReading technical papers that were typeset with A4 (or worse, US letter) in mind, and printing those in an A5 booklet does not make for a pleasant reading experience.
- Aeolun 6y agoGet yourself an A3 printer?
- bayindirh 6y agoIf you're using same amount of paper at the end, why bother with a bigger device with higher maintenance costs? Edit: Some to same. Big Sur's autocorrect is a bit too aggressive it seems.
- Aeolun 6y agoSo you can save your eyes the strain of trying to read A4 pages at A5 size? Wasn’t that what the original issue was?
- bayindirh 6y agoStapling normal sheets from a corner doesn't have a net disadvantage when compared to booklet printing (when reading papers). Booklet allows saving paper by printing in a easily manageable format (you don't need to cut papers in half to read them properly) in a smaller form factor. So, printing in booklet is just a convenient way to automatically downscale documents, nothing more, at least in this context.
- rbanffy 6y agoNot all staplers can reach the middle of an A4 page.
- bayindirh 6y agoJust open the stapler in half and staple on something soft. Most office upholstery doesn't mind being stapled (loosely woven thick fibers do not get damaged).
- novosel 6y agoSew it. https://www.loc.gov/preservation/resources/educational/bookarts/pamphlet.pdf https://www.loc.gov/preservation/resources/educational/booka...
- chmod775 6y agoThis. I just carry a pen, needle (foldable cushion thingy), thread, and my smartphone around university. Or I would if everything wasn't remote right now. As long as you have access to printers, paper, and a way to store the latter, you don't really need more. Can't just shove your ordinary stapler into your pocket, though I have seen tiny models. So it's really nice if you don't want to carry around a bag.
- pbhjpbhj 6y agoSeems like an invention that probably already exists: a pocketable handheld stapler, you load a single staple, push the device into the groove of some folded pages, staple exits the guide and pierced to other side (probably stabbing you!), tool is applied in a different way to bend over the staples from said other side. Booklet!
- NAR8789 6y agoNot a portable solution, but I've definitely done something like this for making booklets. 1. Open up a regular stapler surface mode. 2. use a flattened shipping box as a backing surface, to give your fingers a break from the stabbing. 3. Staple through. 4. pull the paper and the staples up. 5. Start bending the staples down with pliers, to get a nice distinct fold started. 6. Bend the rest of the way by hand. 7. Masking tape the edge. (or, for more visual flair, washi tape). I imagine you could also do something like hammer the staples a bit, but the tape really helps ensure the staples don't catch. The staples won't have inward curve that staplers usually apply as the standard anti-catch measure, but I like this actually--combined with the tape, everything sits more flush.
- divingdragon 6y agoBut scaling down from A4 to A5 makes the text less readable.