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  • Unless it's an online one-off printer, most commercial printers will not require you to set up your own impositions. If you can print off one hard-copy for the printers to check against, that's usually sufficient.

    At our shop, all typical prepress operations are built into our pricing, (including imposing and in-house proofing). Only extra graphics work (like converting each page of a 20-page booklet from RGB to CMYK, etc) incurs a design fee.
  • You're describing what's called a signature. After you shop around and select a printer, talk to them and get their advice. It may vary according to the plates, presses and stock, but the printer is usually the one who arranges the images or color separations to fit on the press sheet, with space for trim and registration.

    If you are talking about a short-run black-and-white fanzine, just as an example, 5 1/2" by 8 1/2", that could be printed on 11X17 stock at a copy shop, start by getting a piece of paper that size and folding it into quarters. Hold the folded sheet with the four corners facing you, as the fanzine will look before you cut it into pages. Number the pages at the front and back of the corners, in book order, one through eight. Unfold the sheet, and you will see where the pages should fall.
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