Booklet Printing Basics - at a Glance

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Booklet Printing [top]

With Booklet printing you can create training manuals, insurance policy explanations, software guides and much more.  Whatever their use, booklets must be designed to communicate, effectively. That means your booklet printing should include crisp full color details like graphs, charts, screen shots and photos that show readers exactly what they need to see. If you're serious about the quality of your booklet printing, choose a professional booklet printing services company that has the options you need and the support you want.

Standard booklet printing is done on 8 ½” x 11” paper that’s folded in half and saddle stitched in the center of the fold.

Our standards are clearly shown in our instant online quoter, making the task of pricing your booklet printing project a snap. Select from the standard options and click the button. It’s that easy.

Custom Booklet Printing Solutions!
If you need a non-standard paper, size, shape or fold, we can help! We specialize in booklet printing projects with unique requirements.

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Booklet Printing - Paper Stock [top]

While booklet printing can be done in almost any size and on any type of paper, most booklet printing is done on 8 ½” x 11” white text or cover paper stock. If these paper stock standards will work for you, we offer a FREE online instant quote that takes less than a minute to complete. You get your price online, instantly.

Standard papers - our standard booklet printing papers are listed below.

• 80 # Gloss Text
• 100# Gloss Text
• 80# Gloss Cover
• 100# Gloss Cover

Custom papers

Booklets can be printed on almost any kind of paper and almost any size. Custom sizes can be used to allow for larger images, fold out pages for maps or charts and a whole host of other custom booklet printing options. If your booklet projects calls for custom paper stocks, we can help. We will print your custom project with photo quality printing equipment.

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Booklet Printing - Pages [top]

Booklet printing is typically done in “signatures” based on the number of pages in your booklet project. Signatures are used by printers to arrange your pages on the printing paper so that, when folded after printing, the pages end up in the right order. We handle signature layout for you based on the number of pages you price and supply artwork for. We remove the complications of signatures when pricing! All we need to know is how many pages you will be printing.

Standard page layouts

Our standard booklet printing page layouts are listed below.

• 4 Pages
• 8 Pages
• 16 Pages
• 32 Pages
• 48 Pages

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Custom page layouts
If your booklet printing needs call for a different number of pages than the standards listed above, we can help! Just tell us how many pages you will need when you start your custom booklet printing quote.

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Booklet Printing - Folding & Stitching [top]

We offer the most popular fold position as our standards on all booklet printing projects. The half fold position can be either horizontal or vertical. Additionally, we “stitch” your booklets together with staples using a process called, “saddle stitch”.  If a half fold is what you need, saddle stitch will work for your booklet printing project.

Saddle stitching involves using wire like a staple to bind your booklet pages together. We typically use three “stitches”. The stitches are cut and closed on the inside of the fold to avoid the closed ends from snagging. On the outside of the fold, or the spine, only the smooth “head” of each stitch or staple can be seen or felt. You can easily see an example of our folding and stitching. Get a free booklet sample

Custom folding and stitching

If your booklet printing project requires a unique fold or binding other than stitching, we can help! Just describe the folding or binding options you are looking for when you start a custom booklet printing quote.

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