Luxury Property Brochure printing

We are in England’s oldest town, Colchester.

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

This video guide gives you a great showcase. 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.

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!

We will need a high res pdf please.

For a wire stitched brochures we need one file with all the pages in reading order.

For perfect bound brochures we need a file for the outer and inner cover spreads then a second file for the inside pages.

If you are adding any premium extras to the cover then we need a file for that too. Anything that you would like foiled, varnishing or embossed should be set in 100% black (0/0/0/100 on the cmyk slider). This file should be the same size as the printed cover artwork so that we can overlay the two. These processes only work with vector artwork so best to produce that in Illustrator for optimum results.

When you export to PDF we need crop marks and 3mm bleed on each edge. The following page includes illustrated and video guides on how to set up bleed correctly:

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

The old print industry maxim is that it is possible to have two of these when you send a job to print. Stop Press! At Ex Why Zed we have changed the rulebook and are confident we can now offer all three! The highest quality printing, for the best prices and delivered when you need it.

To keep costs down, stay within A4 portrait, A5 landscape or 210x210mm square, since those three are the cheapest sizes we print. Even so, pick the size that best fits your brochure. The largest portrait size we can print is an mightily impressive A3 that would really create a wow factor when you handed it to a prospective buyer, developer or broker. A3 is 420mm high x 297mm wide.  Our maximum square size is 297x297mm.  The maximum landscape size is 210mm high x 297mm wide.

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. Where a brochure order is 1 to 20 perfect bound or stapled 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.

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. Try it there 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 contract, legal document or set of particulars.

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.