Interior and Homeware printing

We need 3 things to go ahead with your print job:

 Print Ready Artwork
 Your Print Choices
 A Delivery Address

The instructions below are a 1 minute read, but will ensure your job can go ahead immediately. Let's get started! 

Supplying Your Print Ready Artwork

You'll need to send the files to us using WeTransfer <<<<Click this link.

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. How long a job takes hangs on the run length and print spec. The slower ones are longer litho runs and premium cover finishes. If a hard deadline is looming, tell us the date and we'll confirm we can hit it before you commit. Stapled and perfect bound jobs skip the proof when they're 20 copies or under (down to just 1): we give the artwork a thorough going over and send it straight to print. Every hardback, and every job at 21 copies or above, comes with a PDF proof for you to sign off 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.

Lamination is a thin layer of protection which prevents the ink cracking. Win win. It comes in matt, gloss, soft-touch or anti-scuff.

Matt Lamination works best with silk and uncoated covers.

We would suggest using Gloss Lamination if you are aiming for a super shiny, high impact cover.

Soft-Touch Lamination has a velvet, illustrious feel but does attract finger marks REALLY quickly so best not eat your lunch before reading!

The short answer: when paper is printed, the ink sits on the surface. When it is then folded to make your cover the ink can crack. While you should never judge a book by it’s cover, this cracking will look unprofessional. Lamination is a thin layer of protection which prevents the ink cracking. Win win. It comes in matt, gloss, soft-touch or anti-scuff.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/9elKD4qeGKU

https://exwhyzed.com/resource/setting-3mm-bleed-on-artwork-for-print

We will need 3mm bleed on all the edges, you'll notice at the moment that the artwork stops at the crop marks. Push it 3mm beyond them and you avoid any chance of a white border.

The following page includes illustrated and video guides on how to set up bleed correctly:

https://www.exwhyzed.com/resources/setting-3mm-bleed-on-artwork-for-print/

You might have set this up correctly in InDesign but when you export to PDF just make sure that in the 'Marks and Bleeds' menu you not only tick 'Crop Marks' but you also key '3mm' into each bleed box, one for every edge: top, bottom, inside and outside. This will add the bleed to the exported PDF.

BLEED FIX

It's one of two things>>>

Have you dragged the background image out 3mm beyond the black line on your Indesign file into the bleed area?  Try that then export again.

OR you have done the above but then when you're exporting you need to click the Marks and Bleeds menu, then type '3mm' into the four bleed boxes.  This will add the bleed to the pdf.

Yes we can and they all create a stunning additional visual layer to wow your readers.

We will need the cover of your book supplied as two spreads, one for the outer cover and one for the inner cover.

When you export to PDF, please set the bleed to 3mm on the right and left and 10mm on the top and bottom. That way the hairlines show on the PDF and we know where to fold the spine.  We have locked the hairlines and white box so drop your artwork in over those.

Watch the cover file video guide or read our guide to creating your cover file.

The inside pages should be supplied as single pages NOT spreads. Just choose ‘Pages’ rather ‘Spreads' when you export to PDF and that should sort it!

Yes, on the specs people ask about most. Every product page shows real prices from real jobs, and our instant calculator will happily price an order sized 1 to 20 within a couple of clicks. Everything else is bespoke: size, page count, paper and quantity all move the price, so we quote it properly rather than guess, usually replying with your figures that same working day. Send us your spec and we'll come straight back.

Wire stitching is a little bit of print jargon for ‘stapling’. If you have an A5 booklet then we print it onto A4 sheets, fold them in and put staples along the left-hand edge to bind the sheet together. In some quarters, this is also known as ‘saddle stitching’. Let’s stick with stapling though if that’s easier 🙂

Needs to be a multiple of four pages to work as a stapled booklet. Why? Because when you fold a printed sheet in half, you get four pages of content. Fold one now and you’ll see what we mean 🙂

The perfect bound method of binding will give your publication a square spine and professional looking finish.

For further advice follow our perfect binding set up guides.

Yes, ‘text’ pages is our common term for the inside pages of your publication. They can be filled with illustrations, photography, full colour artwork…or just text if it’s a poetry book.

For the purposes of our quoting, we call a page one side of content.  So a sheet of paper has two pages: a front and a back.  If you ask for a quote for 40 inside pages, that will be 40 pages of content, 40 pages in your artwork file / pdf and in the book 20 leaves printed on both sides.