Booklet Printing

Creative Booklet Printing UK

Ex Why Zed is a leading UK brochure and booklet printing company. Our focus on quality, attention to detail and your fresh artwork combine to produce inspirational work that will get your brand remembered, win you new clients and hopefully increase sales.

We specialise in creative booklets for illustrators and photographers, catalogue and yearbook printing for University colleges right through to luxury glossy brochures for household name companies.

About Ex Why Zed

We offer an extensive and all encompassing digital and litho print service.

For short run booklets our market leading Indigo digital press offers exceptional quality printing at a cost effective price whilst our extensive litho department ensures you a competitive booklet printing quote for medium and longer print runs.

The only constraints on the size of your brochure printing is your imagination. We can saddle stitch/wire stitch or perfect bind booklets from smaller than A6 to larger than A3. If you’re feeling creative then choose a custom booklet size and we’ll probably able to print that too!

For the larger budget publications we offer a range of premium additional extras. Make your project jump out at the audient with the GF Smith, Antalis Creative and Fedrigoni range of papers or choose an ultra luxury cover finish like spot UV varnishing, embossing or foiling.

Booklets lend themselves to many possibilities. How about printing one of these…

For your business:
Product Range Catalogues
Promotional Brochures
Brand Guidelines
Fashion Lookbooks
Annual Reports
Product Pricelists

To promote your creativity:
Art Gallery Catalogues
Fine Art Books
Coffee Table Books
Creative Zines
Degree Show Catalogues
Illustrated Comics
Illustrated Diaries
Self Published Books
Sketch Books
Note Books
Graphic Novels

To showcase your photographic skills:
Beautiful Photo Books
Creative Photo Journals
Hard Back Photobooks

Booklet Binding Options

Wire Stitched / Saddle Stitched

A printed document is saddle stitched by stapling its sheets at the fold of the spine over a mechanical ‘saddle’. This process is best for booklets upto 48 pages. If you have more pages than 48 then the thickness will cause it to ‘bounce’ open when laid flat rather than staying closed.  The number of pages needs to be a multiple of four to work as a wire stitched booklet.

Perfect Binding

Perfect binding is the process of binding sheets of a document by aligning the edges at the spine and bonding them with glue to an external cover to give a square finish. If the spine is less than 3mm (36 pages in total) then we would advise you to go for wire stitching.

Helpful Tips

Our ‘house’ papers are significantly more cost effective than branded sheets. If you are unsure which finish and weight of paper will work best with your artwork then drop us an email with your address and we’ll happily send out a sample pack.

If you are printing more than 700 copies then we will litho print your job and it is then good practise to ensure page quantities are multiples of 8 and 16 so 8/16/24/32/40 – makes it easier for us to print and cheaper for you!

Our file set up guides provide all the information you need to correctly set up artwork for print. This can take a while to work out at first but ultimately we’ll need you to supply us with hi res pdfs please saved as PDFx1a (choose this from the top drop down menu when you export to pdf) and then in the Marks and Bleeds menu tick crop marks and add ‘3mm’ into the four bleed boxes.

For extensive help on setting up your booklet file for print have a look at our Resource section.

Pricing

Booklet printing offers a huge number of variables and as a result it would be impossible to quote for every eventuality. We price competitively because we want to get your work into print and then if its a success and you’re happy with the quality we hope you’ll come back for a second…third…..fourth order.

Please email us with your spec taking into account the following factors and we will get a quote back to you.

• Quantity
• Finished Size
• Total Pages (see ‘Helpful Tips’ above)
• Cover Stock
• Inside Stock
• Binding Method (see Binding Options left)
• Full Colour or Black and White
• Matt Lamination is strongly recommended on covers printed onto 200gsm or more to prevent cracking on the fold.
• There are also a range of premium cover options we can add including Spot UV Varnishing, Silver and Gold foiling and Embossing however these start at £280 and can add a significant amount to the total cost of your booklet.

Or just go ahead and fill in our Quote Form – easy!