Applied Illustration: Visiting Manchester Print Fair

I decided that I wanted to create a printed copy of my comic, regardless of whether I decided to make a web comic or not. I was really interested in zines when I visited Thoughtbubble last november and I wanted to create a small package, perhaps with a postcard and the zine alongside. 

I then visited Manchester Print Fair at the end of March, just for some inspiration and to meet some illustrators who are in the industry. I spoke to quite a few and looked around their work, as well as picking up some handy tips on where to buy cheaper materials. 

One of the things I took away with me was this small origami instruction manual, it was essentially a hot dog book but stitched in with a screen printed cover. 
After talking to one of my tutors, we decided to cut the thread to see the size of it and what it's dimensions were (so I could potentially create one myself). 

I discovered it was A3, so my next stop was going to talk to the print room technicians. They told me that there were a lot of deadlines in the next few weeks and that finding and keeping a screen would be hard. This put me off my initial idea of creating a screen printed comic (i thought about risograph but it was too expensive to buy one). 
The next stop was the I.T guys, I asked them how best to recreate it in InDesign and the advice they gave me was to just create it in photoshop as two separate A3 designs (using grids for the fold placements), save as JPG's, open in preview and print them that way.