Name: Spreading the Feast Gathering
Start: 2025-07-11T00:00:00-05:00
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Tagged: Printing ebooks. Proclick

This topic has 14 replies, 10 voices, and was last updated 9 years, 1 month ago by Lauren.

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February 26, 2013 at 5:37 pm
Katrina in AK
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So, I just put in an order for a ProClick, and hope to print a variety of things to have ready for when my new toy….ahem, tool, arrives.
Some questions for you veteran ebook printers:
-What weight of paper do you use for double-sided printing, so there’s little to no bleed through?
-Have you successfully printed Yesterday’s Classics e-books? How did you do it? I have a couple I would like to print, to make notes, etc.
-What else should I know? :).
My printer does not print double-sided, but I have been figuring out how to print back to back with manual feed.
Thanks for sharing!
February 26, 2013 at 5:48 pm
missceegee
Participant
I use 24 lb paper double sided. It works well. I do not like 20 lb, even for single sided. It’s just too thin for my liking. I do have a duplex printer so all I have to do is choose two-sided so it couldn’t be easier. Otherwise you can print odd pages, reload carefully, then Print even.
February 26, 2013 at 7:15 pm
sheraz
Participant
If you print odd pages, be careful to pull out the last page of the entire document before you place the whole thing in the printer. It keeps everything printing on the right pages…learned that the hard way! Ack! LOL
February 26, 2013 at 8:07 pm
JennyMN
Participant
Can I add another question…
What do you use for a cover – cardstock? or do you buy something special?

February 26, 2013 at 8:27 pm
sheraz
Participant
I print the cover on cardstock and sometimes laminate it before punching the holes.
February 26, 2013 at 10:41 pm
Tristan
Participant
I use 20lb paper unless what I’m printing has lots of graphics (rare here). I love my laser printer (so cheap per page of printing compared to inkjet) but it does not duplex so I’ve learned to print and flip so I can do double sided pages too.
For covers – I often use cardstock but don’t print on it, my laser hates it. I either handwrite on the cardstock or print a cover on 20lb paper and glue it onto the cardstock. Sometimes I just use 20lb paper.
I have been looking at picking up covers from MyBinding.com, most likely clear or frosted. I also use a piece of cardstock for back covers right now for most books.
I love my ProClick!
February 27, 2013 at 1:04 am
lauraz76
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First of all, what is a ProClick? I love new toys….I mean, tools… 🙂
I jsut bought the Yesterday’s Classics books during the sale! so excited! Lisa, the owner/operator, advised me about Calibre (just google Calibre Ebooks and it will come up). It’s a free software that manages all your ebooks. Besides organizing, it easily helps you to print them (and yes, we can print the YC books). I’m planning on printing the cover pages, any pages with illustrations. I plan to read them from my Nook, but DD is 4.5, and would concentrate better with some sort of illustrations to look at for now. Also, I think I’ll put the covers/illustrations in a binder, and then she can use them to tell me what books she wants to read, and maybe even color them (since many are black and white).
OH, and while I haven’t tried it yet, you can apparently convert between different eReader documenet styles! For instance, the Calibre can convert an EPUB version to a Kindle version!!
Coolio.
February 27, 2013 at 1:25 am
sheraz
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I use Calibre – and yes, it converts the EPUBs to Kindle… =)
I printed out the YC’s Genre List that gives the synopsis of each book in the Genre it belongs – like Fairy Tales, Ancient Greece, etc. and made files with that list on my Kindle. Sure made locating them easier, lol.
A ProClick is a manual desktop binder similar to a machine that spiral binds, except that the ProClick is able to open and shut, allowing you to add pages to any number of books, assignments, anything that you collect papers for.
Here’s a link:
http://www.amazon.com/GBC-ProClick-Desktop-Binding-Machine/dp/B00006IAS3/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1361928194&sr=8-1&keywords=proclick
The first review included a video.
February 27, 2013 at 1:35 am
missceegee
Participant
You can also use spiral coils as long as the pitch is right.
February 27, 2013 at 1:56 am
Katrina in AK
Participant
Thank you for the printing tips. With all the flip-flopping, I’ve started looking into duplex printers. Another year, maybe?
Laura, a ProClick looks like an awesome tool, and many mamas here at SCM seem to have them. Tristan did a great post on her blog here: http://ourbusyhomeschool.blogspot.com/2010/06/whats-proclick-p50-and-hows-it-work.html
I did order the 3:1 pitch coil binding. My hardest choice was color….so I just did black and I figure I can make pretty covers.
I didn’t know about Calibre, but now I am quite intrigued. Will have to see if our ancient computer can support it. Thanks for the tip.
I love gleaning from those who’ve gone before me. Sheraz, I never would have thought to take the last page out, until I saw goofy pages 100+ pages later.
Thank you everyone! I’m still open to any and all suggestions…

February 27, 2013 at 3:08 am
saltvearth
Participant
What spiral binding did you purchase? Or, what size do you find you use most often? I’ve always wanted a ProClick, but can’t get past paying for binding. It would take a long time to use a hundred of anything. I always have my binding cute off at Kinkos. That’s the cheap part. They charge 4 bucks or so to bind it, so ultimately it would be worth purchasing a ProClick.
February 27, 2013 at 3:36 am
HollyS
Participant
I haven’t done this, but these look really nice! http://mcguffeysworld.blogspot.com/2011/11/tutorial-printing-and-binding-ebooks.html
February 27, 2013 at 8:43 pm
Amy
Member
Usually the 20# paper. I just purchased “My Book of Centuries” and I printed that on 24# paper, because I wanted to write on it in pen. Oh, and my printer is a Brother LaserJet, if that matters. It doesn’t really show through under normal use. (Now if you hold the page up to a light … :P)
May 6, 2016 at 5:54 am
Lauren
Participant
I have downloaded a few books, bought my papers and I am ready to print. But I am confused. I thought I would print evens on one side and turn the pages around and print the odds. But if I did this, it seems like my pages wouldn’t print right. Like page 1 and 4 would be back to back.
Am I missing something or is this just my printer? My printer, incidentally, is ancient!!
May 6, 2016 at 8:20 am
Lauren
Participant
Well after a bit more googleing I finally figured it out! For anyone down the road interested in this… I downloaded, for example, Treadwell’s The Primer from The Baldwin Project online. I pasted it into a Microsoft Word document. I then used the page layout tab to select “Book Fold” and when I printed I selected double sided- which printed one half of the pages, at which time it prompted me to put those back into the feeder tray and it printed the rest. And ta da! A mini “book” ready to go! Love it!