Printing your paperback books

We offer paperback book printing services. We also print in mutli color and bind Soft cover books like Perfect bound, smyth sewn and cover drawn on. We printing educational books, text books, novels, manuals and guides etc.
The size of soft cover (paperback) book you design and print depends on the intended use of the book, and the market you want to reach. The design and printing budget will play a large part in the final product.
Paperback books come in a wide variety of sizes, bindings and cover stocks. The following information will help prepare you to submit a quote using the attached web form.
Soft cover books are perfect bound,notch bound or Smythe sewn depending on your requirements. PUR bindings can be used for for lay flat books. Soft cover books do not have endpapers.The size of perfect bound books range from small one color paperback books to large format books as for an art gallery, complete with process color text with spot varnish plus PMS inks. Common sizes range from 4 1/2 x 6 7/8 inches to 9 x 12 inches. The common sizes are generally less expensive to produce because more pages will fit on the parent press sheet. There is almost no limit to specialty sizes of paperback books, however odd sizes tend to waste paper may cost more to print.
The cover presentation plays a vital part in attracting attention on a bookshelves stocked with hundreds of other books for sale. For this reason alone most paperback covers are printed in living color (CMYK) plus a foil color finished with a liquid plastic coating for protection. Unless you have a specific type of binding in mind the printer will look at your quote request and suggest the binding most suitable for your book.
If you have any other questions, please contact us.