Studio brief 3 - Printing requirements and limitations

When finishing the publication, i had to consider the printing requirements and limitations of the printer. We were required in the brief to have our finished booklet printed in the booklet printer, which prints and staple binds the book for you. So i went down to the print room and asked questions like what paper can we use? And how thick can we go up to in regards to paper? 

We could use pretty much any paper to print our booklet on. When asked about how thick we could have the paper the answer was anywhere up to 400 GSM. This is reassuring to hear, as these requirements would not effect the production of my booklet.

Another massive restrictions that absolutely affected my book were full bleed images. If we had full bleed images on any of our pages then i was told that it wouldn't be a good idea to get my book printed by the book printer, as the printer couldn't print full bleed images without leaving a white border along each side of the paper. Therefor if i wanted full bleed images, I had to print out the pages separately and then staple bind them myself.