A4 Booklets
4pp Cover onto 300gsm Uncoated FSC Certified
20pp Text onto 170gsm Uncoated FSC Certified
Printed in Black and White throughout
Staple Bound
Grid 1 is a perfect example of how a simple layout can still feel rich when the content does the heavy lifting. On crisp uncoated stock, those intricate black-line grids land sharp, clean, and slightly nostalgic — like getting hooked on tessellations at school all over again.
It’s also the kind of booklet that invites interaction. You can imagine it on a desk with a pack of felt tips, slowly coming alive as people add their own colour and rhythm.
If you’re planning something similar, it’s worth starting with our zine printing service, then skimming the wire stitching set-up guide and our help on printing a booklet in Word. For bleed basics, see setting 3mm bleed on artwork.
Grid 1 is an A4 creative booklet made for zine lovers and anyone fascinated by pattern, shape, and image-making. The pages are all black and white, but they don’t feel plain — the detail sits in the fine lines, dense grids, and repeating structures that reward a slower look.
Because the imagery is built from linework rather than tones or colour, the print needs to stay crisp. This is where the uncoated paper choice really helps: it keeps everything feeling clean and tactile, without glare, and the marks still read with confidence.
This booklet was produced as an A4 wire stitched (staple bound) piece — a smart choice for a short, collectible run.
Key spec summary
The 300gsm uncoated cover gives the booklet a sturdy, papery “pick me up” feel — not glossy, not precious, just confidently direct. Inside, the 170gsm uncoated stock adds real substance, which works well for detailed patterns and pages you might want to linger on (or even colour in).
Staple binding is the quiet hero here: it lets the spreads open flat, so the grids and full-page shapes aren’t fighting the gutter.
The cover keeps things minimal, letting the word GRID do the talking. That restraint sets you up for what’s inside: a simple framework, then loads of intricate, almost hypnotic detail.
Inside, the linework and grids have a very particular energy — some spreads feel engineered, others feel hand-drawn and playful. The contrast between tidy structure and lively marks is what keeps the flip-through moving.
And because it’s all black and white, you notice pacing more: blank space, dense areas, and repeating patterns become the “colour” of the book. It’s also exactly why this could genuinely come alive with crayons or felt tips — the pages are asking for it.
This project is a good reminder that the small practical questions are often the ones that save a job.
The client wanted to add blank pages behind cover images — which pushed the pagination into an awkward number. We stepped in with the key rule for wire stitched booklets: page counts must be in multiples of four, so the file needed to move to 24pp.
The artwork was also created in Word, and the client asked if a Word-originated PDF would be acceptable. We confirmed it can work well for a simple design, as long as it’s exported as a high-resolution PDF, supplied as single pages in running order, and set up with bleed.
We also guided them on A4 with bleed: setting pages to at least 303 × 216mm to allow 3mm bleed on all sides, with the cover included as part of the same page sequence.
This was classic account-managed support: quick answers, clear rules, and no fuss.
The end result is a crisp, tactile A4 booklet that suits the work perfectly — and keeps the door open for future “Grid” editions.
