WHAT IS A POD? -- a small zine about who you'd call
quarter-sheet and half-sheet zines, 16 pages, saddle-stitched
Wilfred Henry. insearchofpeace.press · justice
Companion to What Is a Circle? (../what-is-a-circle-print-files/)

Two editions, each in its own folder:

  quarter-sheet-edition/   4.25 x 5.5 in, 8.3pt body. 2 letter sheets per copy, cut in half and nested.
  half-sheet-edition/      5.5 x 8.5 in, 12pt body, set larger for easier reading. 4 letter sheets per copy.

Each folder has these print files:

  _reader.pdf                single pages in reading order, in colour. For screen and proofing.
  _spreads.png               every spread on one sheet, for a quick look.
  laser/_laser.pdf           imposed in colour, for a colour laser, riso grain faked in.
  riso/_riso-sunflower.pdf   imposed master for the Sunflower drum.
  riso/_riso-teal.pdf        imposed master for the Teal drum (all the type, the line art, the press mark).

Inks: Teal + Sunflower.

PRINTING, quarter-sheet
  Letter paper, portrait, duplex, flip on the LONG edge, 100% / actual size. Each sheet holds four
  pages a side and makes two folded half-sheets once it's cut. Check sheet 1: the cover is top right
  on the front, and page 2 sits right behind it, same way up.
  Cut each sheet across the middle, at 5.5 in. Stack outside to middle: sheet 1 top, sheet 1 bottom,
  sheet 2 top, sheet 2 bottom. Fold on the 4.25 in line, staple twice on the fold.

PRINTING, half-sheet
  Letter paper, landscape, duplex, flip on the SHORT edge, 100% / actual size. Each sheet is one
  folded half-sheet. Check sheet 1: back cover + cover on one side, pages 2 and 15 on the other,
  same way up. Stack the four sheets in order (sheet 1 outside), fold once, staple twice on the fold.

RISO
  Run Sunflower first, then Teal on the same sheets. Teal carries the small type, so it goes last.
  Masters are grayscale: black = full ink, grey = a tint for the riso to screen. Make masters in
  photo / grain mode, not text mode, or the tints drop out. Let side 1 set a few hours before side 2.
  Masters run in order: sheet 1 side 1, sheet 1 side 2, sheet 2 side 1, and so on.
  Quarter-sheet: 4 masters per drum. Half-sheet: 8 per drum.
  Nothing prints within 0.25 in of the sheet edge.

THE STAMP AND COLOPHON
  The press stamp (the circle, INSEARCHOFPEACE.PRESS, "A project of the In Search of Peace Fund") is on
  the back cover above the colophon, in Teal. Every copy's stamp says
      PRESSED <date>  NO. <n> OF <run>
      PRINTED BY ____________            (sign it)
  Laser copies, one run at a time: press.py makes the numbered copies, each stamp a little different.
      python3 press/builder/press.py what-is-a-pod --copies 1-20 --of 50              (quarter-sheet)
      python3 press/builder/press.py what-is-a-pod-halfsheet --copies 1-20 --of 50    (half-sheet)
  It writes <edition>/press-run/<slug>_<date>_no1-20-of-50.pdf and logs the run in <edition>/PRESSINGS.txt.
  The reader and laser/ files carry the free stamp (FROM THE FREE PDF), for downloads; press-run/ keeps
  the unstamped laser file press.py works from. Riso copies are stamped by hand; the masters leave the room.
  Colophon: title · Wilfred Henry · text of 3 November 2026; "First pressing. The stamp above says when,
  which copy, and who printed it."; the inks, the type, and
  insearchofpeace.press · In Search of Peace Fund · PO Box 22, Schuyler VA 22969.

REBUILDING
  The source is shared with What Is a Circle?: it's in ../what-is-a-circle-print-files/source/, and in
  the press project at zines/circle-pod/.
    cd ../what-is-a-circle-print-files/source
    python3 build.py pod                          both editions, dated today
    python3 build.py pod quarter --proof          one edition, stop after the reader and spreads
  Needs and fonts: see that folder's PRINTING.txt.

EDITING
  The text and drawings live in podmap.py, one function per page (p1 to p16). It borrows the type,
  the plates and the press-mark colophon from pages.py. The page numbers sit in a pod ring that fills
  in solid one segment per page; that's folio() in podmap.py.

FOLDERS
  Laser files are in laser/, riso masters in riso/, one pair of folders per edition. Each file is the
  whole zine, cover and insides, in folding order. The reader PDF stays at the top of each edition folder.
  The source is in the circle folder (source/). A full rebuild puts each edition's files here itself, stamped.