If this was going to be a real book, I would expect it to be hardback and/or perfect bound. However, I don't really have the time or facilities for this right now so printed it out on nice quality paper and tried to do my best of putting it together for submission. I suppose this might be similar to what a publisher would make as a test print. I saw Jon Klassen post an image of what he described as a "turning dummy" of his latest picture book, so I see that this kind of printing process has some relevance to real practice.
I had some problems with printing as the usual print staff weren't there and there were problems with alignment, but they fixed it and printed it correctly for free. I used the power guillotine in the print room to get the best edges and then tried stapling a copy (which ended up lopsided) and sewed another copy (straighter, but made some slightly unsightly holes but looked better).
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