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Print it at home

Every zine comes with a PDF laid out for two-sided printing on letter paper. Print as many as you want and give them away. You don't need to ask.

Half-sheet zines, 5½ × 8½

  1. Print the print at home PDF at 100% (actual size), two-sided, flipping on the short edge.
  2. Stack the sheets in order, sheet 1 on the outside. No cutting.
  3. Fold on the 5½ inch line and put two staples in the fold.

Quarter-sheet zines, 4¼ × 5½

  1. Print the print at home PDF at 100% (actual size), two-sided, flipping on the long edge.
  2. Cut every sheet across the middle, at 5½ inches. Each sheet gives a top half and a bottom half.
  3. Stack the halves from the outside in: sheet 1 top, sheet 1 bottom, sheet 2 top, sheet 2 bottom, and so on.
  4. Fold on the 4¼ inch line and put two staples in the fold.

Landscape quarter-sheets, 5½ × 4¼

The page on these turns the other way, so the download comes with its own printing note. Follow that one.

No two-sided printer

Print the odd pages of the PDF, put the stack back in the tray with the blank side up, and print the even pages. Try one sheet first to see which way your printer wants the paper turned.

No long-reach stapler

Open a regular stapler flat, staple through the fold into a piece of cardboard, and bend the legs over with a butter knife. Or sew it with a pamphlet stitch: three holes along the fold and one length of thread.

Paper and ink

Any letter paper works. Recycled is best, and 24 lb paper feels better in the hand than 20 lb. Card stock makes a sturdier cover if your printer will take it. Black and white is fine.

At a copy shop

The zines are licensed for copying. If a copy shop asks, show them this page. The license is CC BY-SA 4.0: anyone may copy, print, and share these zines, and adapt them, as long as they credit the press and share under the same license.

Pass them on

Leave a few in a waiting room, a laundromat, a little free library, a clinic lobby. Ask first where it matters. Bring a stack to your circle.