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Donebrach@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
its to tell you the page is not accidentally blank. laying out text for a physical document has limitations on the page count and generally needs to be in multiples of 4 due to double-sided printing and paper stock options. if you have a layout that can’t cover the entire surface of your print media but you need to include the entire physical sheet, (especially if its a technical / legal document) its best to just say “there isn’t meant to be anything here, don’t’ worry.” in so many words.
otherwise you get people calling / emailing being like “your form is missing a part! there’s a whole blank sheet when I print it out! >:(“
RogueBanana@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Shouldn’t it be multiples of 2 instead of 4 since is a spiral binding? Idk how manufacturing works and if they cut the sheets during binding so just curious.
Donebrach@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I don’t work on the print side of things, but I generally understand that printers will print the sheets on larger sized paper then trim down to the final product, so even if its a spiral bound book, the raw sheets are gonna be on larger sheets regardless, thus the multiples of 4 (two pages for each side of the piece of paper).