Imagine that you are reading a novel. You start on page 1. You read it and flip to the next page—page 2. Counting pages for any printed piece is just as simple!! When we refer to “originals” we are referring to the printed pages that you will give us to reproduce from or number of individual pages in your doucment.

If your originals are 2-sided, like a novel,
count all of the sides INCLUDING BLANKS.

If your originals are all 1-sided,
you simply count the number of
pages (originals) that you have.
DO NOT COUNT THE
BLANK BACKS WHEN
GIVING NUMBER OF
PAGES!!

Brochures are counted by panels. If you are printing a simple tri-fold brochure on a piece of 8½ x 11 paper there would be three panels on each side of the paper. Thus it is considered a 6 panel brochure.