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Stapled booklets with you in 3 days, perfect bound books in 5 and hardbacks in 7 days. Free UK tracked delivery.
A corporate brochure is the crucial marketing tool for your brand. It will likely be the first contact point for your business and a lasting memory in a potential clients’ mind. will ensure your brochure finds a prime spot on their desk and every time they shuffle their papers, that's right, it could be subconsciously winning you a big contract.
With that in mind, welcome to Ex Why Zed, we are specialist brochure printers! We will print you a stunning piece that does justice to your work and products, makes your brand stand out and will make your client reach for it time and time again.
Printed brochures remain powerful because they give a business more room to explain, persuade and stay visible. Our guide to promoting your business with printing looks at why physical marketing still matters, especially for brands that want stronger recall across events, shops, campaigns and local activity. It highlights how flyers, leaflets, booklets and brochures can support a wider marketing plan rather than sit apart from it.
For teams already planning a brochure, brochure printing techniques brings the choices into sharper focus. It covers digital and litho printing, fold styles, file preparation, paper, finishing and binding, helping readers decide what suits their content and budget. The result is a more thoughtful brochure: one that looks credible, reads clearly and earns its place in a customer’s hand.
Enjoy looking through our showcase of recent brochure printing.
Watch us flip through Cool Adventures, a slow travel magazine that we printed for Enki and Dock Street Creative Productions. Planning your own magazine or editorial booklet? Visit exwhyzed.com to start your print journey.
This 32-page saddle-stitched booklet is printed in a custom 255×200mm format on 115gsm Cyclus Offset, a premium recycled uncoated stock with a warm, textured surface that handles full-bleed travel photography beautifully.
Click here to explore the full case study and see how this project proves that pushing print boundaries can enhance brand storytelling.
Stapled, perfect bound (glued, like a paperback) or hardback? Your page count has already decided, and one picture shows the whole rule.
Read the full Binding Styles guide →Silk, gloss or uncoated: what each looks and feels like, plus the insider hack that saves you money.
Read the full Paper Choices guide →Bleed, page sizes, cover files and the 3 common mistakes. Then 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, and 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 or kraft: we'll post you the real thing, so you never have to judge colour and feel off a screen.
Degree hand in, launch day or 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.
We are in England’s oldest town, Colchester.
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 you approve your print ready artwork, stapled jobs are with you in 3 working days, perfect bound in 5 and hardbacks in 7. 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 your deadline 🙂
We have a smooth, no fuss ordering system. Use wetransfer.com to send us the print ready PDF and our eagle eyed pre-press team will give it a preflight check. You will then receive a final PDF proof to check on screen and once that is approved we’ll go to print. Easy!
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. Keep your order to 20 copies or under, stapled or perfect bound (even a run of 1), and our team checks your artwork thoroughly and sends it straight to print; 21 copies and over, and every hardback, get a PDF proof to approve first.
Once we have checked your artwork we will send over an invoice for you to pay by online bank transfer or credit card through Stripe.
They are, for the specs people ask about most. Every product page shows real prices from real jobs, and our instant calculator handles 1 copy right through to 20 and prices them 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 we have it done by close of business that day. Send us your spec and we'll come straight back.