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Through a rich collection of 'how-to' videos and insightful tips, we guide you through maximizing the potential of your color printing projects. Our commitment is rooted in a foundation built since our establishment in 1972, focusing on customer satisfaction and innovation.
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Key Rules to Remember:
Which option should you choose?
1. Choose options like "8 pages":
Select this if all pages (cover and inside) will be printed on the SAME paper stock.
2. Choose options like "8 pages = 4 pages + Heavy Cover":
Select this if you want a thicker, more durable cover printed on a different, heavier paper than the inside pages.
A natural, matte paper feel. Best for text-heavy documents, manuals, and programs where you might take notes.
A smooth, sealed finish that makes colors and images look sharp and rich. Harder to write on with most pens.
A sturdy cardstock with a shiny, reflective finish. Makes cover images pop with vibrant color.
A thick, matte cardstock with a natural, elegant feel. Easy to write on.
A flexible but heavy paper with a glossy finish. Feels like a high-end magazine cover. A great step up from using the same paper as the inside.
Bleed ensures your design prints all the way to the edge of the page with no unwanted white borders.
✓ With Bleed (Prints to Edge)
✗ No Bleed (White Border)
The "cover" is the single, outermost sheet of your booklet. It is counted as 4 pages (front, inside-front, inside-back, back). This is true even if it's printed on the same paper as the inside pages.
Full Color Throughout
Every page, from the cover to the centerfold, is printed in vibrant full color.
Best for: Marketing catalogs, photography portfolios, magazines, and any project where visual impact is the top priority.
Full Color Cover, B&W Inside
Our most popular and balanced choice. Get an eye-catching, professional color cover with economical black and white inside pages.
Best for: Training manuals, event programs, novels, and reports where the cover needs to attract attention but the content is mostly text.
All Black & White
The most cost-effective option for projects that are primarily text-based.
Best for: Technical documents, informational pamphlets, newsletters, and any project where budget is the primary concern.
Your selected turnaround is the number of business days to produce your order. The production "clock" begins only after your order is fully ready to print.
Our team checks every file for common issues. For your order to proceed without delay, your files must have:
If we find an issue, we will notify you immediately. Please note that resolving file issues will pause the production timeline.
If you opt for a digital proof, the production clock will not start until we receive your formal approval.
The estimated production completion date shown on our website is an initial calculation. This date is accurate only if all the conditions listed above are met promptly. Any delays will shift your actual completion date.
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Before you start, these quick questions will make your estimate easier to get:
Booklets are multi-page documents that require multiple sheets in print to fully reveal themselves. As a cohesive group of sheets, they will become one single comprehensive piece that contains all of the information, articles, and images that are part of the whole document.
Here you'll get the Cheapest Booklet Printing
Two staples will hold the sheets together. The staples are located on the spine of the booklet, pass-through all of the sheets, and hold them together.
Your order will be Proudly Printed in the USA by our own 5-Star Team!
The simple answer is that you count pages as you would in any book, with the important consideration that the covers should be counted as well. We prepared this graphic to clarify even further
When counting pages to print a booklet, count each side as one page, starting with the front cover
This graph shows how a booklet comes together, including the location of the staples that hold it together
Quick Tips: How to count the number of pages in a booklet: Pages? Sheets? Check it out!
Following these steps, you will be able to create artwork for booklets that can print correctly. This piece focuses on the mechanical file preparation work, not on the creative side of the booklet.
Other resources available to you: Do you want to know how to create a PDF? If so, click here
When creating the artwork for the printing of booklets use settings in your graphic design software for the CMYK color space as opposed to RGB"
Use 300 dpi for the images and for the creation of the file. Images pulled from the internet are low resolution and will look pixelated, no matter what you do with them in order to try to improve their quality. Some of the creative software available will only create low-resolution images by default, and that can't be changed. Use professional software instead whenever possible.
You should only provide single pages with bleed and cut marks in your file. We will impose it to build the spreads.
In multipage books, you will notice that the thickness of the spine can be big, especially when the project has over 36 pages. At that point, because the sheets are folded, the cut marks start to lose some alignment from one sheet to the other. That is normal. What you should keep in mind is that the copy and information in your publication has to have generous margins so that nothing gets cut-out
Your document should be prepared in PDF format as opposed to jpg, tiff, png and other raster formats. Each page of the booklet should be its own page in the PDF file and include bleed and crop marks. In other words, if your booklet has 8 pages, your PDF file should have 8 pages that we will properly arrange. See Q&A for more details.DO NOT submit reader's spreads, since we can't print out of it. Your file need to be replaced.
The binding method used for stapled or saddle-stitched booklets requires the fastening of the individual sheets through staples.
Take a look at the following image: These are simple machines, but they can be very complex. In one case, the machine that is on the left uses pre-made staples. The samples are pushed through the paper and "closed". The machine on the right side uses a wire instead. The machine cuts the wire in the needed length (which is directly proportional to the thickness of the paper that we are binding), then pushes it through the paper and secures it.
If you need help deciding which specifications would work the best for you, give us a call and our team will guide you so that you order exactly what best works for you.
Available page counts are:
To start, select the product size and choose an option from "Select Option". These options determine important elements for your template, such as folding marks, creases, etc.
Important: When saving your final design file, please make sure you do not include the template layer.
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