The 30-second quote form — or the instant calculator for 1–20 copies. Your price lands the same day.
Rough or ready. A real person checks your file and offers clear advice on making it ready to print. Free and fast.
Your preview to sign off before we print the run. Until approval you can still make changes to the artwork.
Stapled booklets with you in 3 days, perfect bound books in 5 and hardbacks in 7 days. Free UK tracked delivery.
Exhibition catalogue printing at Ex Why Zed: perfect bound or stapled art catalogues in A5, A4, square or custom sizes, on silk or uncoated paper with heavier or laminated covers, for galleries, artists, art fairs and degree shows. There is no minimum order, a real person checks every file, and finished catalogues are delivered in 5–6 working days.
Welcome to Ex Why Zed! We are the artist catalogue print company you have been looking for. Day in, day out, we help transform artist’s ideas in to print.
What better way to promote your upcoming show, gain some publicity and add an extra revenue stream than by printing a catalogue to accompany the show.
From the first contact with us you will be pleasantly surprised by our fast response time, friendly and helpful team. We offer a huge range of papers, sizes and binding choices, expert file set up advice and most importantly fair prices that make printing your artist catalogue commercially viable.
We will give you a wealth of resources, knowledge and friendly advice to broaden your understanding of the print process. We take pride in helping everyone from the complete novice to the rockstar designer.
Enjoy looking through our showcase of recent art book printing.
Flip through Makiko Nakamura Exhibition — a prestigious A4 hardback catalogue made for John Martin Gallery visitors and collectors.
Key print spec:
Size: A4
Binding: Casebound hardback
Cover: 170gsm silk, wrapped over greyboard
Text: 38pp on 170gsm uncoated
Full colour (approx. 9mm spine)
Endpapers: 2 × 4pp on 170gsm uncoated (printed)
⚠️ Like this? Note down the print spec, then ping us an email for a quote on a like-for-like project. ➡️ hello@exwhyzed.com
Stapled, perfect bound (glued, like a paperback) or hardback? Your page count has already decided — the whole rule in one picture.
Read the full Binding Styles guide →Silk, gloss or uncoated — what each looks and feels like, and the insider hack that saves you money.
Read the full Paper Choices guide →Bleed, page sizes, cover files and the 3 common mistakes — plus we check (or rebuild) your file for FREE.
Read the full Artwork Hub guide →Browse hundreds of real projects we've actually printed — proper inspiration, not a single AI mockup.
Real people who've been printing books since 2006 — friendly, genuinely knowledgeable, and usually replying within minutes.
Design in whatever program you love, save it as a PDF, send it over. Never done it before? A real person checks it for free.
No minimum means you can print a single copy, check the paper and layout in your own hands, then run the full batch with total confidence.
Silk, gloss, uncoated, kraft — we'll post you the real thing so you're never guessing colour and feel off a screen.
Degree hand-in, launch day, a fair this weekend? Tell us your date up front — we'll say straight away if it's doable, then build the whole job around it.
Ready to place an order? Brilliant, you'll need to upload the files using www.wetransfer.com sending them to hello@exwhyzed.com and in the comments box let us know the number of copies you're going for and the best address for delivery. We'll then give your artwork a free preflight check to highlight any potential issues and will email with any advice or recommendations before going to production.
Once we receive your print ready artwork, we'll aim to deliver in 5/6 working days (we do get busy at degree show time). If you are working to a crucial deadline PLEASE allow more time - there's no harm in getting the artwork to us early so we can deliver a few days before the show starts 🙂
Stapled zines and booklets are with you in 3 working days, perfect bound books in 5 and hardbacks in 7, counted from approval of your print-ready artwork, with free tracked UK delivery. Lead times depend on run length and print spec — longer litho runs and premium cover finishes take longer — so if you're working to a hard deadline, tell us the date and we'll confirm we can hit it before you commit. On runs of 1–20 stapled or perfect bound copies we check your artwork thoroughly and send it straight to print; 21 copies and over, and every hardback, get a PDF proof to approve first.
Unfortunately what is seen on an RGB, backlit screen is never going to be the same as it appears on paper in cmyk. It's just impossible to achieve that and no printer could. You will have to allow for some difference in the colours between the two mediums but having something tangible in your hands and seeing the images on paper gives the publication a charm that just sending out a pdf wont do.
In turn, it is unlikely that what you see on screen actually matches your original painted or drawn artwork.
They are — for the specs people ask about most. Every product page shows real prices from real jobs, and our instant calculator prices 1–20 copies on the spot. Everything else is bespoke: size, page count, paper and quantity all move the price, so we quote it properly rather than guess — usually the same working day. Send us your spec and we'll come straight back.
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