If printing your own Whodunit Hunt booklet for the first time, please follow this guide for best results. Your PDF file prints with two pages next to each other on each side of the paper so that, when folded in half, it is a booklet of manageable size as per the example photo.
Firstly, always print in colour (if possible), in Landscape orientation, and choose the Fit To Page / Shrink To Fit option so that it prints the correct size on A4 paper.
The booklet looks best if two paper sheets (three for deluxe Whodunits) are used, printed on both sides.
If you (or your hotel/B&B) have a duplex printer that can automatically print on both sides of the paper then in your printer properties select ‘2-sided printing’ with ‘Binding Location’ set to ‘Short Edge (Left)’ (or ‘Flip On Short Edge’ under the ‘Print on both sides’ option… or similar)… and print!
If you can only print single-sided pages then print one page at a time and follow these steps for the best looking result for a nice-looking booklet printed on both sides:
- Print the first page of the PDF file.
- Return the sheet to the printer tray with the blank side facing the way that your printing device prints. If this means that you have to flip the page over then hold it with the longer paper edge in each hand, and flip over lengthways towards you (so that if the top side of the paper had printing on it then you are now looking at the blank side… and vice versa) as directed in the diagram below:
- Print the second page of the PDF.
- Repeat the above steps for the remaining PDF pages and sheet(s)
Once you’ve finished printing, fold the sheets lengthways so that the pages 1 and 3 are on the outside of the folded sheets so that your booklet has the same general appearanced and page numbering (for a standard Whodunit) as the one shown in the example photo. Hopefully this is an easy task… but see diagram right for guidance if needed.
If you are getting your booklet printed at a busy hotel/B&B, you’re in a rush, or if the above just sounds too complicated, printing single-sided absolutely won’t mean you can’t do your Whodunit Hunt correctly – just follow the clues and directions in number order and you’ll be able to follow the evidence trail just fine!
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