hardback
books
This refers to the size of your text pages alone and does not account for the spine or any overhang of the hardcover. For detailed guidance, downloadable templates and dimensions for your hardcover artwork are provided below.
High Definition Printing
Enter the number of different artwork versions you would like to print using the same product specification (size, quantity, printed sides, stock, lamination etc).
Additional artwork versions of this product will receive a discount
Silk:
Silk is a beautifully white, coated stock which has a low surface sheen. It reproduces images and text to an exceptionally high print quality and vibrancy.
Gloss:
Gloss is a coated stock that has a higher surface sheen than silk. The extra surface sheen ensures that the print has an enhanced vibrancy.
Uncoated:
Our Uncoated stock has excellent whiteness, is incredibly smooth and luxurious. Uncoated stocks are perfect if you plan to write onto your printed product.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
- HD is only recommended if your design contains a lot of high quality photography or images.
- HD is not recommended for designs that contain large flat tints.
- HD will force digital printing on our HP Indigo presses in all cases, so it can become expensive on larger quantities where Litho printing would otherwise be used.
- HD printing uses a higher definition writing head on the HP Indigo presses, with double the addressability on the dot placement. It also switches the screen ruling from 175LPI to 250LPI.
REQUIREMENTS
- HD is available with all specifications except black and white, or cover spread widths greater than 730mm.
Requirements:
Cover Stock Weight must be greater than or equal to Inside Stock Weight.
Silk:
Silk is a beautifully white, coated stock which has a low surface sheen. It reproduces images and text to an exceptionally high print quality and vibrancy.
Gloss:
Gloss is a coated stock that has a higher surface sheen than silk. The extra surface sheen ensures that the print has an enhanced vibrancy.
Uncoated:
Our Uncoated stock has excellent whiteness, is incredibly smooth and luxurious. Uncoated stocks are perfect if you plan to write onto your printed product.
Lamination is essential for hardback books as it reinforces the hinge area of the cover, ensuring durability and longevity. As a result, we cannot produce covers without lamination, nor can we use uncoated stocks, whether laminated or not.
Matt lamination:
A popular lamination which gives a very matt finish without dulling ink vibrancy.
Gloss lamination:
Creates a high-shine, glossy finish and makes printed colours stand out.
Soft Touch lamination:
Exudes a feeling of quality. Soft touch lamination gives a wonderfully tactile experience due to its smooth, velvety texture.
Linen lamination:
Use this lamination’s unique embossed pattern to create a distinctly heritage look. The tight grain and matt finish are scuff-resistant.
Leather lamination:
Finish with the appearance of fine-grained leather. This unusual lamination creates the illusion of a smooth cowhide surface pattern.
Anti Scuff lamination:
Offers extra protection against scuffs and finger marks while giving print a quality silk finish. This lamination is advised if you are printing with dark, solid colours like blue or black.
When the 'Black & White' option is chosen it is only the inside pages of your book that will be printed black and white, the cover will always be colour. Any colour in your inside pages will be converted to greyscale or black and white by us before printing automatically.
Foiling:
Metallic accents are great for giving a luxurious feel to print. All our foil options are metallic with the exception of Gloss Black and Gloss White.
Spot UV:
Adds a shiny, gloss finish to specific areas of your print to give it extra visual impact.
Requirements:
Spot UV requires Matt, Soft Touch or Anti Scuff lamination for a Gloss or Uncoated Cover Stock.
Important:
Spot UV and Foiling adds 1 extra working day to production and is not available with express or express plus.
You will need to provide a guide for any Spot UV or Foiling. You must provide two PDFs of your artwork; one of your main print and one showing what areas you would like the Spot UV/Foil to cover. The areas you would like to Spot UV/Foil must be artworked in 100% black and must be exactly the same size and in the same position as your main image, so it fits directly over the top of it.
Requirements:
Finished width must be a minimum of 148mm.
Throw-out widths can be a minimum of 60% and a maximum of 95% of the finished width.
The flat spread width, including throw-outs, can be a maximum of 840mm.
Front and back throw-outs are additional pages that fold out from the fore edge of the standard 4 page cover giving a 6 or 8 page cover.
Important:
When a throw-out is selected, the folded edge will fold short of the trimmed fore edge.
Adds 1 extra working day to production and is not available with express or express plus.
Requirements:
2 Hole Drilling requires a height of at least 124mm.
4 Hole Drilling requires a height of at least 280mm.
Drill holes have a fixed 80mm pitch for ring binders.