","@id":"https:\/\/exwhyzed.com\/size-layout-and-paper-choices-for-childrens-book-printing#project","video":[{"@type":"VideoObject","name":"Action packed guide to CHILDREN'S BOOK PRINTING at Ex Why Zed","description":"We will teach you how to create and print a cherished children's book.\r\n\r\n\r\nEnjoy our super-comprehensive, information-packed guide to help you understand the choices and broaden your knowledge of the print process. \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nOur hour-long guide takes you through the options many illustrators (independent and famous) have chosen when designing and styling their books to achieve eye-catching finishes and huge acclaim. We detail the options available for size, paper, binding and premium cover options. \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nOur showcase section dissects a stunning range of previous books we have printed. In addition, there is a very special section which we haven’t included in any of our other video guides where we look at iconic children’s books from famous authors going back as far as the 70s to show the tricks, layouts and styling they chose to become so successful. This marketplace is super competitive so we want your book to be visually brilliant, to stand out against the crowd and to become every child’s favourite bedtime read!\r\n\r\n\r\nWe discuss how much it costs and how crowdfunding your book lets you keep control of the project and make more money too. Win win, right!?\r\n\r\n\r\nThe scope of Children’s books has evolved and now encompasses colouring books and increasingly we’re seeing storybooks to promote a business or brand which can be sold in a gift shop, through an online store or at a trade show.\r\n\r\n\r\nIt has never been easier to self-publish a children's book than it is today at Ex Why Zed so we looking forward to seeing your artwork! ","transcript":"welcome to our action-packed guide. on printing a children's book Ex Why Zeded our\r\naim is to give you a wealth of ideas expert information and insight to make. this guide. the perfect companion on your print journey.\r\n\r\nwe've been printing children's books for a few years now so\r\nwe know. a little bit about what works and what are the winning solutions to make. your publication. has polished and\r\nas professional as possible.\r\n\r\nwe're going to highlight in-depth aspects of designing and styling. the publication. including sizing pagination finishes formats and the premium extras that you\r\ncan add to your front cover to really make. it pop the scope of children's books has really evolved and now also\r\nencompasses coloring books and increasingly we're seeing children's books to promote a business or a brand\r\nwhich you can then set in your gift shop in your online store or at a trade event it's the 2020s now and it's never been\r\neasier to self publish a book children's books and art books in particular do really well on Kickstarter and other\r\ncrowdfunding websites where you can test the water you can gauge the response to your concept and get your project fully\r\nfunded before you go into print it saves paying a publisher 40 to 50 percent when\r\nin reality you don't need them anymore to gain the exposure the worldwide market is your audience\r\nthis means that between the author and the illustrator you can own the project keep a much better control over the\r\nfinances and how much money is available to pay yourselves rather than having your terms dictated by a third party\r\nwe've got customers who've gone for a couple of thousand pounds on Kickstarter and ended up securing twenty five\r\nthousand pounds in funding following the conclusion of your campaign you know.\r\n\r\nexactly how many books you need to print\r\nyou can run a few extras but to sell on your online store or through Etsy and Amazon to reach a wider audience our\r\nshowcase section of this guide. dissect a stunning number of previous children's\r\nbooks that we've printed in addition there is a very special section which we haven't done any of our other video\r\nguides where we look up iconic children's books from famous authors going right back to the 70s to show\r\nthe tips tricks and styling. they used to become so successful this market is\r\nsuper competitive so we want your book to be visually brilliant to stand out against the crowd and to become every\r\nchild's favorite bedtime read ultimately printing isn't a daunting experience you've done the hard bit and come up\r\nwith an exciting concept now getting it into print and bringing it into life is the fun and easy part so without further\r\nado let's get started so first of all we're going to start by\r\nshowcasing the different print spec options that you have available for your children's books and let's get stuck into it immediately with the finding\r\noptions so the number of pages really dictates the binding choice that you're going to go for so if you've got 32\r\npages that's kind of the notional cut off between saddle stitching and perfect binding so saddle stitching wire\r\nstitching and stapling all the same thing you can see here the pages are\r\nprinted on a wider sheet they're collated and then they're stapled\r\nthey're folded and then they're stapled twice down the left-hand edge so to\r\nprevent there being too much bounce when the sheets are folded and stapled we tend to limit wire stitching at 40 pages\r\nbut if you do particularly like that meant for the binding we can do that process for up to 72\r\nbut please do be aware that the thicker you go for and the number of inside pages you go for means that the they'll\r\nstart further away from the spine as you can see here so more is then trimmed off\r\nthe left-hand edge obviously the thicker you go for as well the more balanced is going to be and once you've opened up\r\nthe cover of your book it does tend to sort bounce open a little bit paper tends to like being flat so as much as\r\nwe can say that it's going to be neat and it's going to be flat when it's open and when it's bound there always tends\r\nto be a little bit of Bounce next up perfect binding is a style where the\r\ninside pages are rough and up on the left-hand edge and then they're glued and then the cover is wrapped around\r\nwith a six to eight mil hinge on the front and the back cover enabling the\r\ncover to open up neatly so for this process you need the inside pages to be\r\na minimum of three mil thick and to achieve that 28 pages an absolute\r\nabsolute bare minimum if you went for a 170 gram for the inside pages you can\r\njust about get to 3 mil in an ideal world dough will prefer 32 or 36 inside\r\npages for a perfect binding that way you can easily get to the 3 mil weave bound skinnier books than that in the past and\r\nthe spines just not thick enough to hold the pages in and just do fallout which doesn't look\r\nreally great for you or for us so if you can get to 32 pages bare minimum but\r\nideally 36 40 or more that would be great for perfect binding there's no\r\nupper limit so you can go up to kind of three four hundred pages and do a really really thick perfect bound book the glue\r\nis plenty resilient enough to hold the pages in on the thicker weights the one advantage that why stitching does have\r\nover perfect binding which as you can see here is the pages can be open completely flat so you get the full\r\nbenefit of the entire double page spread whereas on perfect binding it's not\r\npossible. to push the pages completely flat so you kind of two to three mil on the spine side of each page is slightly\r\nobscured or lost in the spine gutter so from the design point of view when you come to prepare your artwork just make.\r\n\r\nsure you've got no important text icons or sort of faces within that area\r\nbecause if they're lost it makes the book harder for the reader to digest the third binding option that\r\nwe have on children's books is hardback so this is a similar process to perfect binding where the inside pages are again\r\nglued on the left-hand edge with hardback books that with it we then add end papers at the start and the end\r\nwhich gives you three extra pages of content so a left-hand page and a right and a left and then the back of this one\r\nis glued to the inside front cover and again at the end of the book an additional three pages of content here\r\nwhere you have the right-hand page left right and then the fourth side there is\r\nglued to the inside back cover so it's quite nice if these have a pattern on there and a pattern that spans the\r\ndouble page spread there or maybe a graphic as we've got here that's taken from the the book but they're a really\r\nnice way of adding some extra content we've always print these onto 170 gram uncoated because it's nice and resilient\r\nso it doesn't make. quite a nice contrast if you open the book up you've got you want 70 gram uncoated and then you get\r\ninto your and a silk or gloss for the inside pages it's quite a tactile this\r\nis a lot smoother better for graphics you can see a video\r\nhere of how this process works so the text block gets pulled in the end papers get added and the hardback cover gets\r\nbound on\r\n[Music]\r\nit's a bit more of an expensive process so in terms of cost while stitching is\r\nthe most cost effective then perfect binding and then there is a bit of a jump up to hardback books or case\r\nbinding as we call it in turn hardback books are more impressive though so you can get away with charging a higher\r\ncover price when you come to sell them so there are binding options\r\nnext up our paper choices and I guess the paper choice that you go for in the finish really defines the aesthetic of\r\nthe book so you can get in contact with us for a paper sample pack we get those sent out the same afternoon normally it\r\nmeans you get to see exactly how the papers look and feel in hand rather than guessing online we have done our\r\nabsolute best to make. one white paper look completely different to another white paper on our website but it is\r\nalways tricky get paper sample pack from us and you can see exactly how they appear so the three basic choices are\r\ngloss silk or uncoated so silk is your middle ground it comes in a nice range\r\nof weights from a hundred gsm which is really really flimsy paper up to 170\r\ngram for the inside pages wood because there's premium and then for the cover you can go for kind of 200 which is a\r\nthin card 300 is the standard when you can go up to 350 gram it's got a slight\r\nsheen the images are going to be printed really really crisply on to silk paper\r\nhigh definition the colors bounce off the page good choice for children's\r\nbooks if you go for a hardback book and we always print hardback book covers on\r\nto 170 gram silk which then gets matte laminated on the outside and wrapped over the hardback book case if you\r\ndidn't want more information on this we do have a dedicated guide. for hardback book printing which talks about that process in more detail you can find that\r\non youtube so a silk gloss again is a\r\nsmooth surface more of a shine than silk so the images reflect off the page I\r\nmean this is going to be a really good choice for children's books because there it's going to be nice and shiny it's going to attract children's\r\nattention throughout the ages and your images and your illustrations are going to be really really glossy really shiny\r\nfull of color this is a good choice for children's books again the inside pages\r\nyou can start at a hundred grams really thin we tend to go for 130 or 170 if you\r\nwant to go for a slightly more premium the covers again 300 GSM is to go to you\r\ncan step up to 350 or you can drop down to 250 gram there's not a huge amount of price\r\ndifference between 250 300 and 350 so it comes down to personal preference the\r\n300 is what we print 99% of our books on to the third basic option is uncoated so\r\nuncoated slightly more tactile it doesn't have a coating on the paper so\r\nthe ink does soak in a little bit more amuse the images slightly the yellow here doesn't jump off the page as much\r\nas it would do on a gloss or a silk so the choice for uncoated is whether you like a slightly grainy err finish and\r\nmore tactile feel of the paper 115 Graham is the go-to for the inside\r\npages and again 300 for your cover secondary option within the uncoated\r\nranges are at one of our house papers is called evolution uncoated which is 100%\r\nrecycled so it's slightly grainy err slightly off-white already going to mute your images but you didn't want to take\r\nthe recycled box and you can go for evolution uncoated so these are our digital paper samples they're all\r\nprinted digitally these a5 swatch sheets we'd print your children's book digitally if you're going for kind of up\r\nto five hundred seven hundred copies and then after that we then start quoting for your book to be printed on our life\r\nthough presses which are more cost effective for seven hundred copies and more and that's where your unit price\r\nreally really starts reducing the more copies you order\r\nloads and loads of sizes that you can go for in your children's book we try not to restrict you in any way apart from\r\nwhat the physical possibilities are when it comes to the physical size we can print and the physical size we combined\r\nso the answer is yes what is the question it's the each voss Ex Why Zeded so here we've\r\ngot some a couple of small sizes around a 5 so this is a 5 size you can shave a little bit off the height to make.\r\n\r\nit a\r\nlittle bit more unique 8 5 to 10 high by 148 wide and this other one here tales\r\nof great cities London its 148 mil wide by 200 high make. it a bit more standout\r\nwe don't charge extra for bespoke prices so if you did want to go for something a little bit more custom it's absolutely\r\nfine square sizes work really well for children's books because you get a nice\r\nwide double page spread and the the orientation and the layouts works really\r\nwell for both portrait and landscape images perhaps use magical worry cheeks\r\nis a really nice book it's got a gloss laminated front cover and it's got uncoated inside pages so that's really\r\nnice contrast when you open up the front cover something a little bit unexpected you get the nice shine of the front\r\ncover and you get the more tactile feel of the inside pages so this is 210 by\r\n210 slightly larger than that is the journey. of Teddy and Marla to 15 by again a square size they're quite impactful double-page spreads when you\r\nflick through this one using the full width of the pages and a recent one that\r\nwe've just printed here for Rodney Matthews believe this is a reprint of a book that was first done in the 70s a\r\nprolific and very iconic a fancy artist and this one is 240 by 240 so terms of\r\nsquare sizes the max size that we can do is 297 by 297 that gives you a huge\r\ndouble page spread of two nine seven by five nine four two really really fill with your brilliant eye catching\r\nillustrations same size for hardback books 297 by 297\r\nso you can go for that size in wire stitched perfect bound and hardback but\r\nthat's a super impressive publication. when you come to that size larger than a\r\nfour so it's more substantial again you can charge more for it as a cover price\r\nlandscape options you can go for any landscape size larger than a five\r\nlandscape up to and including a four landscape so these are slightly smaller\r\nthan a for melting planet and Nelson's dangerous dive they're 270 wide by two\r\nten high so again just taking a little bit off the width of a four just to make.\r\n\r\nit a\r\nlittle bit more eye-catching for the reader rather than just a standard a size so a saddle stitched one here\r\nspoken about the pages can be opened completely flat so you get the full benefit of the complete double page\r\nspread and the melting planet is perfect\r\nbound a nice neat three to four mil spine yeah it's just not quite possible. to push the plages flap without risking spine breaking so landscape size is\r\nthere anything larger than a five up to and including a four landscape which is\r\ntwo nine seven wide by two ten hi\r\non portrait orientation got slightly more flexibility you can go from anything from a six port rate up to a\r\nfour port rate so a six is a hundred and five mil wide by one forty eight high a\r\nfour is to ten wide by two nine seven so a six it's nice and neat put a postcard\r\nsize publication. fits in your pocket and\r\ncharge a lot less for that so it might make. it more palatable for people at the kind of fairs sort of an instinctive\r\npurchase they can make.\r\n\r\nfor a couple of pounds rather than something they have to really dwell over as a six we've got\r\na standard a5 hardback book here we've got Nana duck which is a bespoke size\r\nbetween a five and a force is about 270 high by 210 wide and we've got a for\r\nitself which gives you the nice full impact of the largest spread captivating\r\ncolourful images can we fill the page with your text and your illustrations we\r\ncan either print your work in black ink throughout or we can print it in full-color a full-color it's going to\r\ngive you far more impact for your images really really bright pages the jump out\r\nat the reader black ink is cheaper and one particular way where you might want\r\nto utilize black ink on a children's book is if you make. it as a coloring book coloring books are an increasingly\r\nsimple way of illustrators getting their already completed artwork out there and bringing in some more money at a time\r\nwhere it's very much needed so here we've got a full-color cover matte lamination on the cover to add extra\r\nlongevity and we've got the inside pages simple black line art and a story that\r\nthe children can spend a lot of time lovingly coloring in\r\nso paper does prefer to be laid flat and when you start folding paper in half to\r\nget the cover of your book you can see there immediately that the ink along the\r\nspine has actually started to crack it doesn't look great and the more you rub\r\nyour finger on it as the reader the more it's going to go even more so when it was flat it was perfect and straight\r\naway we've folded that sheet you can see papers just roughened up a little bit you can see the fibers of the paper it\r\ndoesn't look great immediately so we recommend laminating the front cover of books to prevent this happening so here\r\nin Nelson's dangerous dive we've gone through the gloss lamination and you can see where it's been folded there the\r\nlamination acts as a protective film over the front cover to stop it cracking so it arrives in pristine condition for\r\nthe reader so you've got four choices you've got gloss lamination you've got matte lamination here slightly more\r\nsubdued nice smooth professional appearance again it stops the ink\r\ncracking or you have anti scuff which we tend to use about once a year or we've\r\ngot soft touch lamination which gives a nice velvet feel possibly more suited to\r\ncorporate uses than it is on children's books so we'd probably tell you to go\r\nfor gloss for a really really vibrant shiny front cover or matte lamination\r\nslightly more muted but still very professional-looking\r\nwe're moving into the showcase section now of our children's book video guide. and in this section we want to show you\r\nwhat some winning solutions are for different orientations and different layouts of children's books design tips\r\nthings to consider bring together whole wealth of resources for you when you\r\ncome to prepare the artwork for your book and make. sure that you take all the boxes and that you layout and your\r\ndesign and your art working is cohesive as possible.\r\n\r\nwe're gonna show you what people have done in the past some things\r\nthat really really work maybe some things that you could look to avoid so let's get stuck into it first we're\r\ngoing to start looking at portrait children's books so these are where the height is longer than the width so we've\r\ngot Nana duck here so we've got 275 by 2\/10 wide so first of all portray\r\nobviously it's going to work better for images that are orientated that way around kind of people standing up the\r\nheight of the page is the impressive thing but when you get a double page spread you still get a nice landscape\r\norientation a nice landscape double page spread then you can put huge impact for images going all the way across nice\r\ntypography here on the masthead so what are the key things about children's\r\nbooks is although they are obviously aimed at the younger readers it's the parents as much as the children who are\r\nyour audience I think we've all been there when you child at the end of the day goes how come we have this book and you're kind of like oh that one again\r\nI've read it 50 times in the last month you don't really want to go through it again because it's not particularly\r\nengaging read or the graphics aren't really up to standard against some of the other ones so you kind of gone I think it's down starving I mean the dog\r\nate that one oh lost we can't find that one anymore\r\nand you always go for one of your favorite books instead because you prefer reading those so graphic so this\r\none a great example of when you open up the front cover of a children's book on the endpapers even if you're not going for a hardback\r\nbook you could still have the first double page spread almost as an end paper on a soft back book as well and\r\nit's really nice to have a repetitive pattern over there I'm sure there's graphic elements that are within your book that\r\nyou could include on the first and last spread sometimes if people are struggling to get up to the number of\r\npages required for a perfect found book then you might need to add an extra two\r\nor four pages of content and adding those with a graphic end paper is an easy and quick way of getting a couple\r\nof extra or four extra pages of content in there so a lot of people kind of have a dedication in a children's book that's\r\nsomething that's a repeating thing that we're going to see a lot as we go through these obviously got children grandchildren nice to have their name in\r\nthere and get their name up in lights there are a few sort of legal bits that you have to have on the book if you're\r\ngoing to release it with an ISBN then there are a few little bits of legal text that I'm sure you can grab off\r\nGoogle or you can make. a note from what our authors have used here we don't supply ISBNs ourselves but if you go\r\ndirect to Nielsen's Nielsen's of the company in the UK that supply is BND's and you can get one of those and then\r\nthere are plenty of barcode generators as well not something we supply but you just drop that barcode in on the artwork\r\nwhen you send us the PDF over and we'll print it for you so two different\r\nversions here of all he discovers the planets ones wire stitched ones perfect bound roughly the same thickness just a\r\nslightly different aesthetic on the binding of course children's books don't\r\nalways have to be the fun story they can also be insightful and educational so we've got three great\r\nexamples here we do love the illustrated women in history books - volume 5 now so\r\nwe've got the double page spread with a really really beautiful illustration and then some text the company in here\r\nCharlotte Bronte this is for slightly older readers I guess kind of six and\r\nupwards really really inspires them about what they can achieve in life\r\nshows what people have done a lot of hard work and talent and perseverance\r\nthis is a compact a five perfect bound book we've got inside pages here on a\r\n115 GSM uncoated a little bit more tactile but the front cover is a 300\r\ngram silk with a matte lamination on there as well we've touched on this in our binding guide. but as we said paper likes to lay\r\nflat so once it's folded and bound and then once it's opened up and read for the first time thus sometimes struggle\r\nto lay flat again like I said we can say that it that won't happen but in reality paper is a natural material it does\r\nbehave with its own properties so do expect that a little bit but it just gives the book a bit more charm they got\r\nto be put on bookcases anyway so it will squash down again a couple of brilliant examples here from square and circus one\r\nslightly smaller than a five on slightly larger than a five really nice custom sizes just slightly off off square this\r\none really really captivating double-page spreads again showcasing a\r\nparticular prominent person from history what Charles Darwin here so we've got a beautiful illustration loads and loads\r\nof content on these pages we've got the fact box here we've got coloured\r\ngraphics as you're going through so it keeps the readers eyed guessing as he's going through the pages or she's going\r\nthrough the pages photography in there as well as illustrations packed full of\r\ninformation this will keep your child going for weeks and months this book really nice and here's a great cities of\r\nLondon history in your pocket again graphic elements to guide. the readers\r\neye around the page text is in black you'll notice this as we're looking\r\nthrough a lot of the children's books in the showcase section the text is in black now you might think oh it's a\r\nchildren's book it needs to be really really bright really really colourful to draw the get the eye in but actually\r\nblack text is in most cases the most effective way of getting the message\r\nacross then we've got a super chunky a five hardback book LIFO printer this was\r\na ten-thousand copy print run for a YouTube influencer so if you're out there on huge\r\nyou've got stacks of followers and you also like to turn your hand to illustration or storytelling why not get\r\nyour book into print this is like a graphic novel 196 pages I believe super\r\nchunky but when you're printing a print run as long as ten thousand copies I think this didn't come in much more\r\nthan a pound a copy so you can sell these for kind of five or ten pounds a book and if you're buying them from us just over a pound it's a huge huge\r\nprofit margin there if you were to sell all 10,000 copies and kind of make.\r\n\r\nyourself 80 90 thousand pounds which is\r\nobviously a significant amount of money but you tap into the following that you have on social media channels and this\r\nmight be something that you could consider so this is hardback we've got the endpapers here with the pattern on\r\nthere and then we're into the story on 170 silk she's actually sewn stitched as\r\nwell which is a process that we can do on hardback books on longer print runs smaller print runs it is going to jump\r\nyour construct quite considerably but on longer print runs it's only a little bit of wiggle room between PU our binding\r\nwhich is the glue and sewn stitching slightly more resilient with the pages\r\nbeing sewn in and on longer print runs it's definitely something you can consider last little example of a\r\nportrait children's book is one that we've prepared here using graphics from primo toys so just a neat 20-page wire\r\nstitch children's book really really bright vivid colorful images we're gone\r\nfor 250 grand gloss on the cover gloss lamination as well to really really make. it shine and then for the inside pages\r\n130 gloss so the colors are really really punchy and they jump out at the reader here we've to contradict what\r\nwe've just said we've got the text in white so white on bold colored backgrounds works as well but we will\r\ntalk about the black text and how you can curate that as we go through this\r\nguide. so there's examples of portrait children's books so any size up to a4\r\nportrait is going to be fine for us to print you can start as small as a 6 you can go up to a 4 and you can have any\r\nbespoke custom size between don't extra for the bespoke sizes ping us an\r\nemail if a society like and we'll come back to you with a price shortly or give us a call and we can discuss options\r\nover the phone as well\r\nthe square format is a really really winning solution for children's books lots of the examples you'll see here are\r\ntwo 10 by 2 10 millimeters which is a really really cost effective size for\r\nthe number of pages we can print on a sheet and it also feels quite substantial when you pick it up to read\r\nwhen you open it up you gives you a double page spread of 420 by 210 so\r\nagain it's really really nice wide surface area that you can put huge graphics on there there's beautiful\r\nillustrations here by Kevin McKee for the Richard McCluskey war books donkey soup vivid color illustrations the story\r\ngoes across the double page spread and they've used the black text again that would just been speaking about and they've lovingly kind of crafted the\r\ntypeface here it's very easy to go for kind of Helvetica Comic Sans this is\r\njust a little bit more Flair with the text on this just really emphasize it and make. it more of an art form rather\r\nthan just the vehicle for telling the story we have pouches magical worry cheeks\r\nlike this one because it's got a gloss lamination on the front cover but the inside pages are uncoated so it forms a\r\nnice contrast between the shines and the matte inside pages again the black text this time something it's similar like\r\nsomething more simple like Rockwell or Comic Sans this is just easy for the\r\nreader to pick out on the page there's a non fussy typeface sans-serif and bright\r\ncolorful illustrations Sophie Johnson Hills the grumpy hamster is another\r\nbrilliant example of how you can really craft the typeface in your book I believe these are all hand-drawn Sophie\r\ntells an amazing story because it goes through it's really really kind of captivating drawers in the reader real\r\nfeel-good story like a lot of children's books are but the illustrations are stunning and there's definitely an underlying current of wit and kind of\r\nhumor as you go through this book really really nice book and it's printed on to cyclists offset so it's a hundred\r\npercent recycled as well you'd have to check with us before you go ahead I believe that paper might be no\r\nin production but we do have a hundred percent recycled papers with a slight gray and a slight off-white appearance\r\nthat we can definitely get something similar lovely humorous illustrations on this\r\none really really nice book again another two ten by two ten one\r\noverloaded with color so the children really really liked this one we've\r\nstarted printing children's books as well for actual big business so this one's for morgan sports car sports car\r\ncalled morgan and they've turned iconic model into a literal vehicle to tell a\r\nchildren's book story obviously encourages a little bit of grand recognition but it gets children reading\r\nsimple page layout here where you've got the illustration at the top and then the neat serif font at the bottom again in\r\nblack so it's easy to pick out on the page and easy to read sometimes when you read children's books at the end of the\r\nday the light and the children's bedrooms not good it could be maybe it's half light so having black text is also\r\nmakes it more legible into the jungle\r\nhere have used its circular method to\r\ninclude their illustrations on the page just such talented illustrators out\r\nthere\r\nLittle Miss Chiefs it's a really really unique book by a lady who curates a\r\nseries of amazing sort of landscape with her dolls that she has at home thousands and thousands of these dolls she dresses\r\nhim up into appropriate costumes and then places immense its you on landmarks\r\naround the UK but also around the world as well so I think this is the second or third volume of with Little Miss Chiefs\r\nso she follows them around the world and takes photographs of her dolls kind of\r\ngetting up to mischeif in really really cool locations you've got one at Ascot\r\nwith a teddy bear must be amazing to walk past her on the street and see what\r\nshe's getting up to it's very similar to slink or to where he places tiny little characters in city around London and\r\nother prominent landmarks must be amazing to stumble across these people when they're out now in the big wide\r\nworld doing their work so this is around\r\n150 by 150 so a good deal smaller than the 210 by 210 but because of the\r\nphysical size of it were around 150 pages here really chunky substantial\r\nchildren's book perfect bound plenty of room on the spine there if you're going to go for a spine which is kind of three\r\nmil thick we'd probably strongly recommend not having your title down the spine because with a tiny bit of\r\nmovement it can slip around to the front or the back cover whereas if you've got 12 mil spine like we have here there's\r\nplenty of room to have a neat title and caption and the author's name and a logo\r\ndown the spine even if there is a little bit of movement is still going to stave well clear\r\nthere's a quiet or rigid page layout on most of the pages here with the caption underneath a centered image but then\r\nthere are double page spreads as well kind of chapter pages so if we just talk\r\nabout borders quickly so we've spoken about paper being a natural material when we come to print trim and bind\r\nwe've got kind of one to two mil movement tolerance so we're going to stack a huge amount of sheets on top of\r\neach other when we come to trim your book there can be tens of thousands of sheets all in one pile\r\n[Music]\r\nand sometimes when the guillotine blade comes through there is a little bit of movement\r\n[Music]\r\nso if you've got a border which is kind of two to three mil from the edge and there's a bit of movement means that\r\nsome of the tons of borders aren't consistent all the way around the book so it's far better design practice to go\r\nfor a kind of as we see here like a 10 mil or basically 8 mil plus border and\r\nif there is a little bit of movement when we trim it's far less apparent than if you went for a skinnier border and\r\nall of a sudden what was meant to be 3 mil is now only 1 mil whereas on the opposite side it might be kind of 6 or 7\r\nthat looks like far more of a mistake if you go for a solid larger border any movement isn't as obvious look at a\r\ncouple examples here of hardback square children's books so we've got the journey.\r\n\r\nof Teddy and Marla which is 215\r\nby 215 so you can see here the text size I think - 10 by - 10 on a case bound\r\nhardback book to cover overlaps by 3 mil around the edge so the cover ends up\r\nbeing slightly larger than the text pages inside so really nice opening end\r\npaper and then into the book black print throughout black print is cheaper but obviously not as impactful as if you\r\nprint in full-color these super chunky uncoated pages and a final square book\r\nthis is a super impressive book a because the illustrations are epic and\r\nbecause of the size as well so it's 240 by 240 so you can go up to any square\r\nsize up to 297 by 297 so anything from 1 4 8 by 1 4 8\r\n148 mil is the smallest height that we combined you can go as large as 2 9 7 by\r\n2 9 7 stunning end papers\r\njust an amazing kind of Dungeons & Dragons it's very very much set in that\r\nera flourishes around the edge of the\r\npage we've got the the tinted image in the background to really add layers and\r\ndimensions to the artwork black text again beautiful illustrated letter at\r\nthe start of each paragraph so\r\noriginally published in 1978 and we were extremely lucky that Rodney came back to\r\nus recently in 2020 allowed Ex Why Zed to\r\nreprint this book for him strongly recommend you getting a copy of this stunning stunning illustrations all the\r\nway through and a brilliant story obviously the larger the page size you\r\ngo the double page spread becomes bigger as well and there's more room for you to get your content on there if you're\r\ndoing really really super intricate illustrations and you go for a smaller book you're going to need the\r\nillustrations to be bigger on the page for the reader to be able to see them if you go for a larger page size obviously\r\nthat lends itself better to having intricate illustrations and then being more visible on the page so that's\r\nsquare children's books so it works well it's a format for both portrait and\r\nlandscape orientation illustrations some\r\ngreat examples here we've got the hundred percent recycled a lot of these have a three under Graham silk cover\r\nwith silk inside pages for children's books in particular how all of the kind\r\nof genres that we print lend themselves well to having gloss front covers and gloss text as well so that gives you a\r\nreal high impact your colors jump off the page so how many gloss front cover might really help your book be the go-to\r\nchoice over that particular week because it's really shiny hardback options as well and\r\nperfect bound options from 32 pages or more\r\nchoosing a landscape orientation for your children's book creates a really wide impressive double page spread to\r\nfill and pack it with loads of information and loads of content to really really captivate the reader and\r\ngrab their attention so all of the copies here are close to a four\r\nlandscape so when you're choosing a landscape size for your children's book the smallest that we can go for is a\r\nfive landscape which is 148 mil high that's the smallest height that we can\r\neither wire stitch case bind or perfect by and so one forty eight high by two\r\nten wide is a five landscape but you can go up to a four landscape and any\r\nbespoke size in between so the three here for wild tribe heroes are two seventy wide and these ones over here\r\nare two nine seven wide so they're the full a four width so we'll start with melting planet which is a very on-trend\r\ntop occurs at the moment and to create two different price points that they could sell the book out they went for a\r\nnumber of copies that were perfect bounds soft back and a number that were also case bound and hardback that's\r\nquite an interesting way to do it obviously means that you can sell them both for different costs and two different markets the hardback is\r\nslightly more resilient than the soft back it's the same artwork all the way through you'll see this on a lot of\r\nchildren's books they've got a gloss lamination on the front cover so they've picked out some of the snowflakes here\r\nwhich looks super cool it's not something you notice immediately when you tilt it towards the light it just\r\nshimmers slightly and that's a really really nice premium added extra the process does cost two hundred and eighty\r\npounds and that covers you from one to five hundred sheets so if you're just going for a handful of copies kind of\r\nlike to test it test the market and dip your toe in and that two hundred eighty pounds is going to be a huge chunk of\r\nthe overall cost if you're going for a longer print run and that two hundred eighty pounds is a lot smaller\r\npercentage for you to add on for what is a really really nice premium feature\r\nso here with the softback book they went straight into the content with the hardback book we needed just an extra\r\ncouple of pages just to bulk it out and make. it thick enough to bind quote in\r\nthe front from greta Thornburg this is all about following the story of a polar\r\nbear in the Arctic so a lot of\r\nchildren's books that we're printing at the moment do have a deep message like this this is really really what the\r\nteachers are kind of pushing at schools at the moment and it's a really really good subject matter for you to base your\r\nillustrations and your story around because it's very very on point and the children are really really getting into\r\nthis now so following on from that we've\r\ngot these series from wild tribe heroes and again each of these is based on a true story where an animal gets into\r\ntrouble we've got plastic in the ocean we've got rainforest deforestation and we've got problems between humans and animals here\r\nso Duffy's lucky escape was the first incarnation of the wild tribe hero series if you're planning on going for\r\nkind of a few books and a few different titles and you can come up with a graphic language as you can see here\r\nthat kind of continues through all of the books so Elly's come up with a really really beautiful typeface and\r\nthen we've got the border around each of the pages so they obviously form a series they're obviously from the same\r\npublisher so it's 270 wide so the double\r\npage spread here is 540 millimeters wide by 210 high when it opens up means\r\nyou've got loads of room to have text on one side and an illustration on the other but there are also double-page\r\nspreads that really kind of exacerbate the points really get across the stunning illustrations in this book\r\nthere is no need even with children's books to go really really overboard I don't think with the actual size of the\r\nfont we're probably up to kind of like 16 to 18 point here and I'd say that's probably about the limit that you want\r\nto go to definitely on a kind of a standard corporate book you'd be looking at between eight and ten point children's text doesn't need to be\r\nslightly bigger obviously because like we've spoken about it might be low light in the children's room just before bed and also their their keen to see the\r\ndifferent letter forms that make. up the words as they're learning to read and a\r\n16 to 20 point maybe is your go to keep\r\nthe lines nice and spaced out a plenty of leading you can add in on indesign\r\nbetween the lines don't cram them in too much because it again it doesn't help\r\nlegibility again we've got that feature\r\nthis book belongs to children love writing their name in their own book feels like they're doing slightly naughty because they've written into a\r\nbook that mommy and daddy gonna read to them so monster in the morning here is\r\nthe full a4 width fun exciting subject\r\nmatter cracking illustrations this is written and illustrated by Ben so I\r\nguess there's a number of ways you can approach your children's book you can write the story and then go and find an\r\nillustrator to illustrate it for you or maybe you are the illustrator and you're looking for a story that you can lend\r\nyour work to its 2020 though and it's never been easier to self publish a book\r\nthan it is right now you don't have to kind of find a publisher like you have to back in the day and then them take 40\r\nto 50 percent off of your margin you can own the project yourselves between the illustrator and the author you could go\r\non Kickstarter you could put a video guide. up on Kickstarter showing your project and it's a brilliant way of dipping your toe into the water and\r\ntesting the response to your proposed book before you actually commit to getting it designed all the way through\r\nand printed maybe you think this is going to be brilliant and loads of people are going to buy it you think you might sell 500 copies but\r\nyou go on there and the response far outweighs what you imagined and maybe you actually need to go ahead and print\r\ntwo to three thousand copies instead the excellent thing about Kickstarter is that you get the money beforehand so\r\nthen you can go and pay the illustrator and you can pay us as the print company to print the book without having to\r\nworry about the financial burden yourself you can print the number of copies that people order on Kickstarter\r\nso you've got a copy for each of those to be sent and then you can print few more as well that you can then sell either through Amazon maybe I'm not sure\r\nif Amazon take a percentage I'm guessing they probably do or through your own website or through an Etsy store loads\r\nand loads of different ways to get your talented work out there now and we'll work with you to help realize your ideas\r\ninto print so again another corporate book here this is for the grand Pere\r\nteam at Weston super Mare Santa and his missing reindeer so this was sold in their gift shop which is a great idea\r\nyou can hire an illustrator and between you as a team I'm sure you can write a\r\nchildren's book which can then be Illustrated and it's just an extra revenue stream that you can put in your gift shop at your venue or your outdoor\r\nspace or your National Trust park kind\r\nof like an ad hoc purchase you can have by the till when people have finished walking around the shop just to kind of\r\nlike a little 5 or 10 pound add-on they can put in their trolley and bring in some extra funds for you guys hardback\r\nchildren's book here landscape format great illustrations so\r\nso many talented people out there and so many different illustrative styles as well I mean this is completely different\r\n- Laura coward style here on the buddy's rainforest rescue both equally as\r\nimpressive and divide your page up into\r\na number of different kind of smaller sections if you're telling a story board as you go through the book\r\nwrong layouts when it comes to setting up children's books this works just as well as having the really really\r\nimpactful double-page spreads I do like these ones they wave but the image that\r\ngoes all the way behind then you sort of tint out part of the image to be able to put the black text over the top of it so\r\nlandscape children's books they open up you get a super impressive really really\r\nwide spread that you can use to tell your story and add your illustrations we've got gloss on the front cover here\r\ngloss really jumps off the page this for wild tribe heroes book is actually in\r\nthe coat which is gloss on one side coated on one side and then uncoated on the other so this is for printing kind\r\nof 700 copies or more it's a LIFO only paper but you'll notice this on a number of kind of commercial children's books\r\nthat you'll pick up in WH Smiths or waterstones they have the coating on the outside and the inside is uncoated that\r\nmakes it really intact is really quite a substantial and board that for the front cover illustrated children's books and\r\nlandscape orientation really really good solution\r\nwe do love a good coloring book and one easy solution for repurposing your work you've already spent the time creating\r\nsome magnificent illustrations for your children's book so why not drop them into illustrator convert them into the\r\nline art and bingo you've got a coloring book too so you're gonna get two revenue streams\r\nof publications for the time that it took you to design one plus it's a lot cheaper for us to print black ink all\r\nthe way through the inside pages in its full color so that means it brings the unit price down for costing so they can\r\nbe sold for a nice cover price to your followers online or maybe even in your gift shop if your national trust or\r\nyou're a prominent landmark in London these are architectural line drawings forming a coloring book so it doesn't\r\nalways have to be aimed at children this is a really nice piece for adult readers to have on the shelves we've got 23\r\narchitectural masterpieces for you to color in for this kind of subject matter lends itself well to kind of iconic\r\nbuildings around the world and opens up a whole new audience rather than just\r\nyoung children we've got here boy who you calling rubbish again flat in all\r\nthe way through 115 to 170 gram uncoated is your going to be your go-to choice\r\nfor the inside pages that's going to be the best solution that allows people to crayon pencil author sketch on the pages\r\nthe cover looks a lot more vibrant if you go for a silk or gloss so here we've got 300 grams silk matte lamination to\r\nthe outside it could go for gloss lamination obviously for extra sparkle\r\nI've gotten really nice on a how-to book here as well with pages that have got elements that\r\ncan be cut out slightly different texture here and different paper as we\r\ngo through the book so most of its onto white uncoated we've got this on some really textured stuff so these can be torn out by the reader and then cut out\r\nusing a pair of scissors and how-to books again makes it interactive for the\r\nchildren sell these in your gift shop and it's a nice ad hoc little purchase\r\nfor maybe 5 to 10 pounds just as they're leaving the shop and they're leaving the venue third and final option will\r\nshowcase in this guide.\r\n\r\nis a sticker book check out these cool ones for the Benjamin Franklin house in that London\r\ngot a decent chunk of the cost here is in the setup so these are more commercially viable in longer print runs\r\nof a few hundred copies and upwards does look great though having a series of\r\nsmaller kiss cut stickers because of double page spread the children can then peel off and apply to scenes throughout\r\nthe book or to your newly painted wolves\r\nsofa or the dining room table so here\r\nwe've got kind of bear illustrations of the house so it's encouraging children\r\nto take off the stickers and add them into the scenes can mix and match them\r\nagain it's interactive children at the moment got a lot of time on their hands at home so interactive sticker books\r\nhow-to books coloring books really really good solution if you're an\r\nillustrator to repurpose your work and add 2nd and 3rd revenue streams\r\nwe're keen to make. your children's book look as polished and as professional as possible. so in this section of the guide. we're going to look at some iconic children's books from the last few decades comes up in all of our guides\r\nwe've printed absolutely everything that we've shown in these guides to show what can be achieved at Ex Why Zeded this is the\r\nonly part of any of our video guides where we're actually going to use other people's work and we're going to do that\r\npurely because you'll have seen these books before and we want to just dive a little bit into the print specs that\r\nthey've chosen so you can kind of use those for yours replicate these brilliant winning solutions so we've got\r\nthe Meg's series of books which is from the mid-70s houses 210 by 210 so this is\r\na size that we flagged up has been a really really good choice for children's books my square size lends itself well\r\nto portrait and landscape illustrations cracking use of the double page spread\r\nprobably 100 grams silk maybe for the inside pages and I've gone for the the\r\none side coated front cover so we've got gloss lamination on the outside and we've got uncoated on the inside it's\r\nquite a nice contrast makes the outside feel really shiny and the inside feel tactile and makes series you'd have\r\ndefinitely seen the work from Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler so this is two to five wide by 2 ATM the\r\nheight it's a little bit smaller than a four and on the width slightly larger makes more of an imposing size for the\r\nreader so we've gone probably 350 silk for the cover we've got gloss lamination and we've got\r\ngloss spot UV varnish on there you can see on the stickman there it's just shimmering as we tilt it towards the\r\nlight and we've also got silver foiling so two premium options added to the\r\nfront cover of this one to really really make.\r\n\r\nit I catching the inside pages are\r\naround 150 to 170 grams silk and the double-page spreads are really really\r\nfilled with beautiful illustrations again we've gone for neat succinct type\r\nin black\r\nyou'll have seen these range of books though so two to five y by two eighty hi\r\nPaul McCartney's debut children's book here obviously he might have a slightly larger budget to play with and some\r\nindependent self publishers and he's gone for the dusk jacket on hey gran dude\r\nso does Jackie is a brilliant way of adding an entire extra surface of content your book so we'd print a dust\r\njacket on two hundred gram silk we'd matte laminate the outside and Paul here's gone for gold foiling on the\r\nouter as well for a bit more pizzazz this is quite a large book it's around two nine seven high by two forty wide so\r\nthe big surface area gives you a huge double page spread to play with dust jackets and books of this size they are\r\ngoing to get more cost-effective per unit the more that you order I'd really avoid a dust jacket unless you're going\r\nfor kind of print run in the hundreds because when we open it up here and you add in the flaps it's going to give you\r\na really wide surface area and we're gonna have to print it either on to one of our B 2 or B one presses and they do\r\nhave slightly higher set up costs so really nice book though Formica we've\r\ngot 170 gram for the silk for the inside pages and then the end papers here on to\r\n170 uncoated again the pattern that we've spoken about choose a graphic or a\r\npattern from within the book and the end pages for an immediate impact I think\r\nthis is probably from his grand dudes tablecloth you've got the flaps at the start and\r\nthe back of the book which tuck in and they bring the dust jacket to be fastened to the book and there again an\r\nextra sort of vehicle for adding a bit more content tentatively we can go for\r\njust a more standard this is an a4 hardback book again the pattern on the\r\nend papers and we've got spot UV varnish on the front cover\r\nso sport UV varnish foiling and they all had two hundred and eighty pounds to the\r\ntotal cost of the job and that covers you for one to five hundred sheets so on a small printer\r\nyou going for the sort of ten copies adding that to 80 on is really really going to jump up the unit price whereas\r\nif you're going for a print running say 500 and in the 280 is a far lower\r\npercentage of the overall cost and it doesn't add as much to the unit price of the book it does look striking and it just\r\nglimmers there just a little bit in the light so you can use it for a bit of text some icons and some graphics works\r\nreally well with vector graphics really\r\ntactile 170 gram inside pages and you can see here the uncoated front cover\r\nnice crisp sharp colors and images whereas the inside because it's printed on two uncoated the images are a lot\r\nmore Muta lends itself quite well to kind of outdoor subject matter that we've got here but the colors that the\r\nReds just not jumping off the page as much so that's the kind of trade off your tactile feels nice but the images\r\nare going to be dollar on uncoated than they are on silk really nice bespoke\r\nsize here for Chris Hortons don't worry little crab this is 240 by 240 so it's a\r\nsquare size but just gone for a little bit bigger than a 4 to give a nice surface area uncoated so you can see the\r\ninks soaking into the paper Chris Hortons illustration stars absolutely\r\nbrilliant we do really really like the combination of the colors here with the kind of sea blue and the sea greens the\r\nlittle crabs going their adventure to try and find the bottom of the ocean 240\r\nby 240 and again you can see on a hardback book that the cover is just a\r\nlittle bit larger than the text block by kind of three mil on either of the edges\r\nso final type of iconic book that we talk about here is another one for Chris Horton oh no George and this is a board\r\nbook so all of the pages are printed onto it 1 to 2 mil thick board and it\r\nalso lays flat as well so you don't lose anything in the spine gutter through the mid of the pages now although this does\r\nlook brilliant unfortunately it's not a process that we've managed to perfect yet\r\nnobody else in the UK that can do this either and if you find any of these on your children's book shelves they will\r\nall say printed in China I'm not sure what the minimum print run is out there it'd be in the thousands but if you want\r\na book like this we can definitely do this size and we can do it as a soft back perfect bound or we can do as a\r\nhardback book but at present the board isn't a process anybody in the UK can do\r\nhopefully this little section looking at some iconic books has really really kind of opened your eyes about what the about\r\nwhat can be achieved we can print all of these specs apart from the board books some really nice bespoke sizes some\r\ngreat cover finishes with the dust jacket with the silver foiling and with the spot UV varnish as well they're all\r\nprocesses that can be done at Ex Why Zed so if this has got you inspired ping us in the email and we'll get in touch and we can help you get your work\r\ninto print before we finish off here are some pro tips to help you design artwork\r\nand spec up your children's books so if you're going to go for a wire stitch booklet you're going to need the number\r\nof pages in total to be a multiple of four this is because as you now know. we\r\nprint four pages per sheet onto three or\r\nthey then get folded in half so each sheet in the book has four pages of content so for a wide stitch booklet you\r\ncould go for 8 12 16 20 24 28 32 36 or\r\n40 pages in total all of those are multiples of 4 we couldn't for example do a 25 page wide stitch booklet because\r\nyou'd have six sheets folded in half to get either 24 pages and you just have\r\none page just flip it around so multiples are for for--why stitch booklet for PU are for perfect bound and\r\nfor hardbacks as long as it's a multiple of two that's absolutely fine because one leaf in a\r\nbook has two pages up front and the back so it just needs to be a multiple of two however on longer life though print runs\r\nit's cheaper to print in batches of eight and sixteen pages so for example\r\nif we tell you you will print your job like a graph because you're going for 700 copies or more then if you can stick to the inside\r\npages being a multiple of 8 or 16 that's going to save you money so for example\r\n40 48 56 64 72 they're going to be good\r\ncombinations because of how many pages we can print on a sheet so for example it's actually cheaper to print 64 inside\r\npages then it would be to print 62 because it's 64 we can print 8 8 to page\r\nsections 8 times 8 is 64 whereas if you went for 62 pages its\r\n7\/8 page sections a 4 page section and a 2 page section so it's 3 print runs for\r\nus makes it more complicated and in turn more expensive for you so if perfect bound and hardback books keep it to a\r\nmultiple of 2 pages inside but if you're going for a longer print run where we're life though print it if you can keep the\r\ninside page count to multiples of 8 or 16 that's going to save you money in the\r\nlong run we want to help you print your children's book for a fair price so here\r\nare a few ways you can reduce the price so the more copies you print the lower the unit price will be\r\nif you switch to a four port rate rather than a four landscape that's also going\r\nto be cheaper because to print a four landscape you can see the width is five nine four so that has to be printed onto\r\none of our larger presses with higher setup costs whereas a four port rate the width of\r\nthe double page spread is only four hundred and twenty so that can be printed onto our top of the range HP\r\nIndigo printer lower set up cross but the best possible. print quality so a four port rate is less than a four\r\nlandscape if you're considering going for a premium paper from GF Smith\r\nbecause you want a color background it is significantly cheaper usually to just\r\nprint the colored background on to one of our white house papers than it is to source a specific colored sheet from\r\ncolor plan so here you can see really nice bright blue in the background and really nice bright mustard a yellow here\r\nprinted onto our white house paper the advantage of this is that you can choose\r\nfrom any of the million colors that you can come up with an InDesign and Photoshop you're not restricted to the\r\nfifty or fifty two color choices in the color plan range so if we give you a\r\nprint quote and the cost is coming in slightly higher than you need then other cost saving tips are if you reduce the\r\nnumber of pages obviously means less paper and less printing for us the more copies you order the lower the unit\r\nprice will be with economies of scale switch to our house papers rather than a premium paper and a five will be cheaper\r\nthan a four so you can choose any bespoke size we don't charge any extra for bespoke sizes but there are price\r\npoint cut-offs at a five anything larger than a five is then in the same price bracket as a four\r\nso we know. your time is precious and we know.\r\n\r\nthat preparing artwork for print can be a bit of a minefield if you've\r\nnever done it before we're here to help you through that process we've got step-by-step file setup guides\r\nonline and the guides really really do make. the process much easier and we'll answer 99% of the questions that you\r\nmight have so for perfect bound books we'll need two files one for the inside\r\npages supplied a single pages rather than spreads and in reading order so the\r\nfirst page of your inside page file is going to be this first right-hand page when you open up the cover and the rest\r\njust follow in reading order we then need a separate file containing your\r\nouter and your inner cover spreads to\r\nmake. things super easy we've got video tutorials on how to do the cover setup online and we've got templates on our\r\nwebsite as well which you can download or just ping us an email in many cases as well if you're struggling a little a\r\nlittle bit we'll just actually prepare you a cover template which you can open up in InDesign and you can drop your\r\nartwork in to make. it really really easy wire stitch booklets are very very easy\r\nto set up you just send us one PDF file in reading order starting at the front cover then the inside front cover all\r\nthe way through to the back cover in reading order again a single pages rather than spreads for hardback books\r\nslightly more complicated and will take you a little bit longer we've got a guide.\r\n\r\nthat you can download on our case\r\nbound book page on our website for this ultimately we'll need four files for a hardback book so if the end papers are\r\nprinted we need spreads for the front and the back end papers and we need a file for\r\nthe front cover and our cover guide. is really really going to help you here prepare this there are extra sections\r\nhere that are visible that you probably want to avoid putting any content on so here we've just run the mustard yellow\r\ncolor right into that area but they're kind of folded sections on there you've also got the 17 mil that tucks over from\r\nthe front cover into the inside front cover and it's partially visible but the\r\nmajority of its glued underneath the end paper but again that needs to be included on the cover setup foil then we\r\nneed a fourth file for the inside pages so starting with this page which is the first inside page file after the end\r\npaper and again reading order single pages rather than spreads always save as a high-res PDF\r\nfile and remember to add three mil bleed and crop marks around the edge you can't\r\nrun away from adding that three mil bleed on your artwork so it does save time to add it for on from the start\r\nAdobe InDesign is what all our templates are prepared for that's the industry standard for page layout they do have a\r\none week free trial on the Adobe website but try canva as well and I think there are a couple of other three online apps\r\nthat will do a similar job when you come to us for an initial quote we'll give\r\nyou detailed and extremely thorough links to all these guides on the quote email so don't worry if everything that\r\nI've just said sounded really confusing if you get stuck at any stage we are a responsive patient and friendly customer\r\nservice team they're always at the end of the phone or an email to help you out you can usually find us on email as well\r\nthat really really silly hours during the day and at weekends to bless the other print companies who only work to 5:00 Monday to Friday it's like they don't actually want to help you so yeah if you ever get stuck at any point just\r\nping us an email and one of us will come back to you very shortly after so neatly\r\nfollowing on from that eleven reasons why you should trust Ex Why Zeded with your next project so we have refreshingly\r\nresponsive friendly customer service we appreciate a lot of people haven't\r\nprinted before so we'll help you through that process you can get in touch with us for free paper sample packs we\r\nnormally send them out the same afternoon so you can actually see the different textures and the different finishes of the paper before you commit\r\nto going ahead we have no minimum order quantity you can choose any quantity from one upwards if you want to print\r\nthirty eight copies we can print your thirty eight copies the more you print the lower the unit price but we'll print\r\nexactly how many copies you need so there's no paper wastage we don't charge extra for bespoke sizes we use the\r\nhighest quality indigo digital and life tho printing machines so what turns up\r\nin print from your artwork is the best that it can possibly be we've got super informative and helpful\r\nvideo guides showcasing what can be achieved in print also browse through hundreds of case studies for ideas and\r\ninspirations on what people have achieved in the past of Ex Why Zeded and what you can do with your children's book we offer free delivery anywhere in the\r\nUK but we regularly ship worldwide - we've got 270 superb reviews on\r\nTrustpilot look through those and see what the people that we've printed for before said about us\r\nwe accept card payment through stripe and PayPal plus you can send payment buybacks as an online bank transfer and\r\neven check if you're feeling particularly retro and finally will even show you how to prepare your artwork for\r\nprint so you'll become an absolute genius with our Illustrated guides and once you've done it once it'll be far\r\neasier when you come to a second edition and your second third and fourth children's books\r\nthere you go that was our action-packed guide. to printing a children's book Ex Why Zeded we hope it gave you lots of things\r\nto consider whenever passion for printing children's books because of the eye-catching designs a mix of different\r\nformats and the lovingly written stories nothing would make. us happier than you coming back to us for a second third or\r\nfourth edition of your book because it's completely sold out our aim is to combine your illustrations and text with\r\nour ink and paper to produce a memorable book that is cherished throughout households in the UK and around the\r\nworld okay so pricing this is the nuts and bolts of it bottom line we would rather\r\nyou print it with us than you didn't remember our mantra we want to help you transform your ideas into print if we do\r\nsend you a print quote and somebody else is a little bit cheaper and let us know.\r\n\r\nand we'll see what we can do we're not naive enough to think we'll be the\r\ncheapest quote on every print spec honestly in the whole of the world there is always someone cheaper in every\r\nindustry I'm sure you go to a coffee shop and buy your favorite brew when in reality you probably get it cheaper\r\nwithin a hundred yards of that place but you like their particular ambience and their service that's why you go there\r\nright we don't advertise our prices online because we prefer to open up a conversation with you rather than hide\r\nbehind an online pricing tool there are so many variables and ultimately this is meant to be a fun process so we don't\r\nwant you to get lost in a massive spreadsheet of indecipherable numbers your artwork is bespoke and unique so in\r\nturn will provide each and every creative customer with a bespoke and unique print quota ultimately you've put\r\nhours weeks and months of hard work into your children's book to make. it as good\r\nas possible. do you really now just want to upload your artwork to an online website and\r\nkeep your fingers crossed at what turns up is exactly as you imagined from your\r\nfirst point of contact with Ex Why Zed will give you a wealth of friendly expert knowledgeable advice to really broaden\r\nyour understanding of the print process and bring your illustrations to life we help everyone from complete novices to\r\nprint rockstars we take a lot of pride in how responsive our team are do read through our Trustpilot reviews and\r\nyou'll see that's really appreciated when you finally press the bar and go ahead to print there are a number\r\nof preflight checks we do to your artwork and if anything doesn't look quite right we always flag it up before\r\nwe go ahead to print we want to make. sure that what arrives is exactly what you expected if you'd like a paper pack\r\nto be sent out which is a really good way of seeing the different finishes and the different weights then there's a form on our website or ping us an email\r\ndirect if you're keen to see more options and do have a good look through the portfolio section on our website\r\nwhere I think we're up to 200 case studies now plenty of the examples of children's books we've spoken about in\r\nthis guide.\r\n\r\nare on there and they've all got the print specs listed so if there's something that you like and would work\r\nfor your project and note it down and put it into the online quote form on our website or ping us an email direct on hello@exwhyzed com we want to help you transform your ideas into print so thank you for taking the time to watch this video guide.","thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/exwhyzed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screenshot-2023-10-03-at-17.48.47.png","uploadDate":"2020-04-14 00:00:00","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7alDztCeEek","embedUrl":""},{"@type":"VideoObject","name":"WINNING SOLUTIONS FOR DESIGNING, STYLING and PRINTING A CHILDREN'S BOOK. Ex Why Zed.","description":"Watch our upbeat, helpful guide on designing and styling your children’s book. \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nWe showcase loads of size options where we try to say “Yes” rather than give you creative restrictions. Portrait and landscape orientation work well as does the square format. \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nWe take a deep dive into full colour and black ink printing, what lamination options you have for the front cover and how to create a great looking publication. Included within the guide are stapled, perfect bound and hardback options.","transcript":"Loads and loads of sizes that you can go for in your children's book. We try not to restrict you in any way apart from what the physical possibilities are. When it comes to the physical size we can print and the physical size we can bind, so the answer is yes. What is the question? Here at XYZ, we've got a couple of small sizes around A5. So this is A5 size; you could shave a little bit off the height to make it a little bit more unique. It's 85 to 10 high by 148 wide.\r\n\r\nTales of Great Cities London: It's 148 wide by 200 high. We don't charge extra for bespoke sizes, so if you did want to go for something a little bit more custom, it's absolutely fine. Square sizes work really well for children's books because you get a nice wide double-page spread. The orientation and layout work really well for both portrait and landscape images.\r\n\r\nHis Magical Worry Cheeks is a really nice book. It's got a gloss laminated front cover and it's got uncoated inside pages. So that's a really nice contrast when you open up the front cover. You get the nice shine of the front cover and you get the more tactile feel of the inside pages. This is 210 by 210. Slightly larger than that is The Journey of Teddy and Marla, 215 by 215. Again, a square size with quite impactful double-page spreads when you flick through this one, using the full width of the pages.\r\n\r\nA recent one that we've just printed here for Rodney Matthews; believe this is a reprint of a book that was first done in the 70s. A prolific and very iconic fantasy artist, and this one is 240 by 240. In terms of square sizes, the max size that we can do is 297 by 297. That gives you a huge double-page spread of 297 by 594 to really fill with your brilliant, eye-catching illustrations.\r\n\r\nLandscape options: You can go for any landscape size larger than A5 landscape up to and including A4 landscape. So these are slightly smaller than A4: Melting Planet and Nelson's Dangerous Dive, they're 270 wide by 210 high. So again, just taking a little bit off the width of A4 just to make it a little bit more eye-catching for the reader rather than just the standard A size. A saddle-stitched one here, spoken about, the pages can be opened completely flat so you get the full benefit of the complete double-page spread.\r\n\r\nThe Melting Planet is perfect bound, a nice neat 3 to 4 mm spine. It's just not quite possible to push the pages flat without risking the spine breaking. So landscape sizes, there anything larger than A5 up to and including A4 landscape, which is 297 wide by 210 high.\r\n\r\nOn portrait orientation: You've got slightly more flexibility; you can go from anything from A6 portrait up to A4 portrait. So A6 is 105 mm wide by 148 high. A4 is 210 wide by 297. A6, it's nice and neat, a postcard-size publication fits in your pocket and you can charge a lot less for that. So it might make it more palatable for people at kind of fairs, sort of an instinctive purchase they can make for a couple of pounds rather than something they have to really dwell over.\r\n\r\nWe've got a standard A5 hardback book here. We've got Nana Duck, which is a bespoke size between A5 and A4; it's about 270 high by 210 wide. And we've got A4 itself, which gives you the nice full impact of the largest spread. Captivating, colourful images can really fill the page with your text and your illustrations.\r\n\r\nWe can either print your work in black ink throughout or we can print it in full colour. Full colour is going to give you far more impact for your images; really bright pages that jump out at the reader. Black ink is cheaper and one particular way where you might want to utilize black ink on a children's book is if you make it as a colouring book. Colouring books are an increasingly simple way of illustrators getting their already completed artwork out there and bringing in some more money at a time when it's very much needed.\r\n\r\nSo here we've got a full-colour cover, matte lamination on the cover to add extra longevity, and we've got the inside pages; simple black line art and a story that the children can spend a lot of time lovingly colouring in.\r\n\r\nPaper does prefer to be laid flat and when you start folding paper in half to get the cover of your book, you can see there immediately that the ink along the spine has actually started to crack. It doesn't look great and the more you rub your finger on it as the reader, the more it's going to go. So when it was flat, it was perfect and straight away, we've folded that sheet, you can see papers just roughened up a little bit. You can see the fibers of the paper; it doesn't look great immediately.\r\n\r\nSo we recommend laminating the front cover of books to prevent this from happening. So here in Nelson's Dangerous Dive, we've gone for gloss lamination and you can see where it's been folded there. The lamination acts as a protective film over the front cover to stop it cracking. So it arrives in pristine condition for the reader. You've got four choices: you've got gloss lamination, you've got matte lamination here, slightly more subdued. A nice, smooth, professional appearance, again it stops the ink cracking. Or you have anti-scuff, which we tend to use about once a year. Or we've got soft-touch lamination, which gives a nice velvet feel, possibly more suited to corporate uses than it is on children's books. So we'd probably tell you to go for gloss for a really vibrant, shiny front cover or matte lamination, slightly more muted but still very professional-looking.","thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/exwhyzed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Screenshot-2023-10-03-at-17.08.01.png","uploadDate":"2020-04-29 00:00:00","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=i65ErYlWRfc","embedUrl":"