Post by Yuutsumi on Oct 4, 2008 15:24:55 GMT -8
After looking at what different printers are requiring and what would be the cheapest and easiest. I have calculated and double checked the following guidelines.
5.5 x 8.5 is the page size for the book. The margins will be an .125 inches for the top, bottom and outside of the page and .25 inches for the inside of the page. This makes a margin page area of 5 1/8 inches x 8 1/4 inches. This also makes the bleed area for the page 5.75 x 8.75.
So what does this mean... it means the following artwork page sizes are a good idea:
8.5x11 make your margins a quarter inch from each side of the page. draw your artwork to the edge of the page if you are going to do a bleed page.
Note: A bleed page/panel is where the artwork goes right to the edge of the paper.
11x17 make your margins 1 inch on each edge of the paper and draw to the edge of the page for a bleed. For this size... Hatching and Toning should be done after you scan your artwork and shrink it to a 5.5 x 8.5 page. Otherwise toning and some hatching will print black.
10x15 as an active area with a bleed of 3/4 of an inch..this is the standard comic book artboard size usually drawn on 11x 17 paper...this is the US comic book standard. Hatching usally reduces nicely from this size...and most toning strips you buy from art stores (if you can find them anymore) are made to be applied on this size of drawing,
11x14 paper with 1 inch margins on the left and right with 1/2 inch margins on top and bottom. This size is proportional to the 10x15 area for US comic book boards...but scaled down to fit 11x14 paper which is more common at art stores. Toning and hatching also look great on this.
The Hokusei Shuukai Doujinshi Template:
The template is designed to scale to any size paper you print it on (use the option scale to fit page in your printer settings). The inside box is for your panels boarders. The outside box is your bleed boundary. It means anything outside of that outer boundary will be cut off by the printer. I hopes this helps.
For Scanning: Sheet-fed printing (which is cheap and high-quality) The manga will be printed at about 400dpi this means your final scanned pages should be 5.5x8.5 between 400-600 dpi. DPI (Dots Per Inch).
5.5 x 8.5 is the page size for the book. The margins will be an .125 inches for the top, bottom and outside of the page and .25 inches for the inside of the page. This makes a margin page area of 5 1/8 inches x 8 1/4 inches. This also makes the bleed area for the page 5.75 x 8.75.
So what does this mean... it means the following artwork page sizes are a good idea:
8.5x11 make your margins a quarter inch from each side of the page. draw your artwork to the edge of the page if you are going to do a bleed page.
Note: A bleed page/panel is where the artwork goes right to the edge of the paper.
11x17 make your margins 1 inch on each edge of the paper and draw to the edge of the page for a bleed. For this size... Hatching and Toning should be done after you scan your artwork and shrink it to a 5.5 x 8.5 page. Otherwise toning and some hatching will print black.
10x15 as an active area with a bleed of 3/4 of an inch..this is the standard comic book artboard size usually drawn on 11x 17 paper...this is the US comic book standard. Hatching usally reduces nicely from this size...and most toning strips you buy from art stores (if you can find them anymore) are made to be applied on this size of drawing,
11x14 paper with 1 inch margins on the left and right with 1/2 inch margins on top and bottom. This size is proportional to the 10x15 area for US comic book boards...but scaled down to fit 11x14 paper which is more common at art stores. Toning and hatching also look great on this.
The Hokusei Shuukai Doujinshi Template:
The template is designed to scale to any size paper you print it on (use the option scale to fit page in your printer settings). The inside box is for your panels boarders. The outside box is your bleed boundary. It means anything outside of that outer boundary will be cut off by the printer. I hopes this helps.
For Scanning: Sheet-fed printing (which is cheap and high-quality) The manga will be printed at about 400dpi this means your final scanned pages should be 5.5x8.5 between 400-600 dpi. DPI (Dots Per Inch).