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Turn your zine idea into a print-ready template.

Choose the size, binding and pages. Preview the imposed order, then create an editable Affinity Publisher or InDesign template with assembly instructions.

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Kumizine Studio

From idea to print-ready zine

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Choose a binding

15 styles
Saddle stitchCopticJapanese stabCase binding

Imposition

A5 · 16pp

Sheet 1

161

Sheet 2

215

Sheet 3

143

Sheet 4

413

Output

  • ✓Template
  • ✓Assembly guide
  • ✓Print settings

Affinity + InDesign

An editable template, ready to make

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Your first zine, made easier

Not sure where to start? Ask Kumi.

Tell Kumi what you want to create and we'll do all the hard work for you.

Kumi, the Kumizine helper, ready to answer a question

Explore Kumizine and create for free

Explore, build and make a zine.

Experiment with zine settings. Save and preview projects. When you're ready, your first download is free.

  1. Explore
  2. Preview
  3. Make
  4. Finished zine
  1. 01Explore

    Try your ideas without paying.

    Change the size, binding, pages and paper as often as you like. Kumizine works out the page order while you explore.

    The Kumizine Zine Studio screen: a saddle-stitch binding selected from the binding styles row, a live imposition preview of the first spread, and fields for page count, spread and page size, image area, and printer's marks, above the Download template button.

    Your settings → a real print-ready template

  2. 02Preview

    See what Kumizine creates.

    Preview the page order, spreads and production setup. Save the project, return to it later and keep refining it for free.

    The generated Kumizine .IDML template open in a page layout app, showing imposed spreads with photographs already placed, crop marks at the sheet edges, and a page panel listing the imposed page order.

    Real editable .IDML template

  3. 03Make

    Download when it feels right.

    Your first basic template is free. Open it in Affinity Publisher or InDesign, then print, fold and bind your zine.

    A pair of hands stitching a folded zine with red thread beside the printed sheet it was trimmed from, with a stack of finished Tokyo Streets photo zines alongside.

    From screen to finished zine.

Start building your zine

You create. Kumizine works out the rest.

Kumizine Learn

Learn how to make your zine

Browse all guides →

Make

Make your first zine

Choose one idea, plan it on paper, make one test copy, then print and bind the finished zine.

Print

How to arrange zine pages

A practical guide to booklet page order, double-sided flipping, and why folded zine pages can look upside down before the print settings are fixed.

Make

Affinity Publisher zine workflow

Use Kumizine to create an Affinity Publisher zine template with the page order, imposition, spreads, and signatures worked out for you before you print.

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You create. Kumizine works out the rest.

Skip the uploads. Connect your library.

Your photographs already live somewhere. Keep them there.

Connect the library you already use and sequence lightweight previews as real zine spreads. Your full-resolution originals do not need to be uploaded to Kumizine.

Your approved sequence continues into a correctly structured, editable Affinity Publisher or InDesign document, ready to relink to the originals and design.

Connect My LibrarySee how My Libraries works

The connected workflow

  1. 1Connect
  2. 2Preview
  3. 3Sequence
  4. 4Structure
  5. 5Design

Traditional: finish → export → upload large PDF → impose

Become a zine-expert

Follow the path from Explorer to Publisher

Track the guides you complete, the zines you create, and the print-ready files you produce. Explorers can earn up to three additional downloads, including one for publishing approved work to Kumi-nity.

Start tracking your learning journey →