Printing Instructions

Printing at home

1. Download and open your PDF.
   • Save the file to your computer first, then open it in a PDF reader such as Adobe Acrobat Reader or your computer's built-in viewer.
   • Opening it in a browser tab works too, but a PDF reader gives you the full print settings.
2. Print the front and back covers.
   • The first page and the last page of the PDF are your covers. Print both in color.
   • Use cardstock for the covers so the finished book feels sturdy.
   • Print each cover on its own sheet, single-sided, so the inside of each cover stays blank.
3. Print the inside pages.
   • Use regular white printer paper.
   • Choose black and white or grayscale — the drawing pages are meant to be colored in.
   • Set your printer to double-sided printing, flipping on the long edge.
   • Keep the blank pages. If your printer has a “skip blank pages” option, turn it off.
4. Put the pages in order.
   • Print one page per side, in the order the PDF supplies them.
   • Choose “Fit to printable area” so nothing is cut off.
   • Do not choose booklet printing — the pages are already arranged for a spiral-bound book.
5. Assemble your book.
   • Put the front cover first, then the inside pages, then the back cover last, with both cover designs facing outward.
   • A binder, a few staples, or spiral binding all work. Spiral binding along the left edge makes the book lie flat while you draw.

The print settings your file was made for

Paper size

US Letter, 8.5″ × 11″

Pages per sheet

1

Scaling

Fit to printable area

Printing

Double-sided, flip on long edge

Blank pages

Keep them — turn off “skip blank pages”

Covers

First and last page, color, cardstock, single-sided

Interior

Black and white on regular paper

“Flip on long edge” means the pages turn sideways, like a normal book, instead of flipping up like a calendar. Every Doodle Draws page is portrait US Letter with no rotation, so long-edge is the right choice for all nine books.

Why some pages are blank

Each book has blank pages on purpose. They sit on the back of a drawing page so pencil, crayon and marker do not show through onto the next exercise. Because they are part of the layout, printing them keeps your book lined up correctly.

Worksheets are printed sideways

Many of the drawing exercises are laid out sideways on the page. That is intentional — turn your book to use them. Please print them in the orientation they arrive in and do not rotate the pages.

For a print shop

With a print shop, the shop handles the cardstock, double-sided printing and binding for you, so you only need to hand over the PDF and this note.

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Printing at home

1. Download and open the PDF.
   • Save it to your computer and open it in a PDF reader so you can see all the print settings.
2. Print all 18 pages in order.
   • Use US Letter paper, 8.5″ × 11″.
   • Print single-sided. The booklet has no blank filler pages, so single-sided keeps every page readable on its own.
   • Print one page per side, in the order the PDF supplies them.
   • Choose “Fit to printable area” so nothing is cut off.
3. Choose color or black and white.
   • The front and back covers are in color, and the photographs inside look best in color.
   • Black and white is fine for the writing pages if you would rather save on ink.
4. Put it together.
   • The first page is the front cover and the last page is the back cover.
   • Put the printed pages in a folder, a binder, or have them stapled or bound at a print shop.

The print settings your file was made for

Paper size

US Letter, 8.5″ × 11″

Pages

All 18, in order

Printing

Single-sided

Pages per sheet

1

Scaling

Fit to printable area

Color

Color for the covers and photographs; black and white is fine for the writing pages

Please do not choose booklet printing for this guide. Booklet printing rearranges and shrinks the pages, and this file is laid out as normal page-by-page PDF.

For a print shop

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