5 Creative Catalog Techniques That Save Paper Costs

2. Paginate your catalog in true signatures. "When developing your catalogs, choose the proper number of pages to fit together in the signatures on a press," Worthington-Levy said. On a half web press, for example, you'll probably have eight pages printing at one time, and on a full web press, you'll have 16 pages. But, "as soon as you start attaching a separate cover to your catalog, between the labor and the extra paper, it's going to start costing you more," she added. "So try to keep it in full signatures, and you'll find both printing and paper costs will go down."