Printing your planner

• Size‘Actual size’ or 100 %. Not ‘Fit to page’ – otherwise every page shrinks a little and the punch holes hit the text.
• Both sidesPrint on both sides and flip on the long edge. With ‘short edge’ every back page comes out upside down.
• Quality‘Normal’ or ‘Standard’, not ‘Draft’ – otherwise the fine grey lines and boxes disappear.
• ColourGreyscale for everything, unless there’s a photo on the cover: then the first PDF page in colour and the rest in greyscale.

Print only PDF pages 1 and 2 and hold the sheet up to the light. Is the back the right way up? Is the wide margin for the punch holes on the same edge on both sides? Then print the rest. If not, one of the four settings is still wrong – and you’ve used a single sheet.

Ordinary matt copy paper does the job; at 90 to 100 g/m² less shows through when both sides are written on. The whole of 2027 is 70 to 75 sheets, half a year 38 to 41, a quarter 22 to 24.

Punch along the wide margin: printed on both sides, it’s on the same edge of every sheet. An ordinary two-hole punch will do. Punch small stacks and the holes line up.

The current week stays on your desk or the kitchen table and goes back in the binder when it’s over.

Then print two pages on each side of a landscape A4 sheet, flip on the short edge, fold the sheets in the middle and staple them – an A5 booklet for each quarter of 2027. The detailed printing tips go through it step by step.

A copy shop will print the PDF for you. Say: ‘Both sides, actual size, flip on the long edge.’ Many will punch it too, or bind it with a spiral.