Our Capabilities

The types of binding and finishing include:

• Perfect binding (soft cover, flexible adhesive)

• Smythe sewn soft cover binding

• Case binding (hard cover), Smythe sewn or notch case or  adhesive, depending on the quantity and other factors

• Plasticoil binding (an attractive alternative to plastic comb) or wire-o, or even plastic comb binding

• Saddle stitch and fold (magazine or booklet style)

• loose leaf or 3-hole drilled for a notebook

• Mixed, with some books perfect bound and some books case bound​

 

For hard cover books, we produce these types of covers:

• Library Cloth with foil stamping on the spine and face

• Leatherette or Leather with foil stamping on the spine and face

• Printed, laminated covers

• Three-Piece covers with cloth on the spine and paper on the faces​

 

Our cover finishes include:

• gloss film laminate -- we only use layflat laminate, the best quality

• supermatte film laminate -- we only use layflat laminate, the best quality

• satin film laminate

• aqueous coating, gloss or matte finish

• varnish

• UV Coating or spot UV to highlight certain aspects of the cover art

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For hard cover books, we can produce dust jackets with the same choice of finishes as for covers.

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We recommend the film laminate because it adds significantly to the appearance and durability of your book. With our advanced production methods, gloss laminate generally does not cost more than varnish. Aqueous coated or varnished covers are subject to shipping and handling damage, and such covers will show wear during use.

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Covers can be as simple as a single color with line copy, or as fancy as you can imagine. A gloss laminated four color process cover will attract attention on any bookstore shelf. Our house stock cover paper is 10 point coated 1 side (10 pt C1S) or 12 point coated 1 side (12 pt C1S). We can supply any cover stock you like.

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For covers, we can begin with:​

• your design in electronic form

• camera ready copy that can be scanned in, or

• your ideas for a design to be executed by our graphic artists.

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The Text of your book or booklet can be printed in black ink or a color, two or more colors, or four color process on a wide range of papers. Our house stock uncoated papers are 50# and 60# white offset. We can supply a wide range of papers, including opaque, gloss or matte coated, and heavier or lighter papers.

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For text, we can begin with:​

• your copy in electronic form

• We can handle formatting and output from a word processor file

• an existing book that you want to reprint, we can scan for you at high quality