Book Printing
Bookstore Quality Book Printing
As a business person, marketer, author, or designer, you want to leave people in awe. Blow them away, with elegant, professional, and beautifully crafted books.
- Perfect bound books — self published books, cookbooks, photobooks
- Saddle-stitch books — newsletters, magazines, catalogs, mailers
- Spiral bound books — manuals, calendars, presentations
- 3-hole punched books — lab manuals, field books, etc
Formatting your books
We prefer that the entire layout of your book be saved in two separate PDF files — one for the inside pages and one for the covers (optional).
Inside pages
- File Format: .pdf
- Fonts: Embedded
- Image resolution: ≥ 300dpi
- Images: Color=CMYK, B&W=Grayscale
- Page size: Same as trim size
- Bleeds: Extend page size by .125″ all around
- Page count: Even number (including blanks)
Covers
- File Format: .pdf
- Fonts: Embedded
- Image resolution: ≥ 300dpi
- Images: Color=CMYK, B&W=Grayscale
- Design: Front, Back and Spine as one file
- Bleeds: Extend cover size by .125″ all around
- Spine size: # of pages divided by ppi + 0.04″
