saddle stitched
brochures

A minimum of 8 pages is required.

There is a maximum brochure thickness limit of 6mm.

FULL COLOUR THROUGHOUT:

Your covers and inside pages will be printed in full colour.

COLOUR COVER WITH BLACK & WHITE PAGES:

Your covers, including the inside front and back will be printed in colour, and your inside text pages will be printed in black and white. Any colour on your inside pages will be automatically converted to greyscale or black and white before printing.

BLACK & WHITE THROUGHOUT:

When the 'black & white throughout' option is chosen, your entire booklet (including the covers) will be printed in black and white. Any colour in your artwork will be automatically converted to greyscale or black and white.

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

Requirements:

Inside Stock Weight must be less than or equal to Cover 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.

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.

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:

All lamination options require a minimum 'Cover Stock Weight' of 200gsm.

Cover (Outside)

Your choice of lamination finish on the outside of the cover.

Cover (Both sides)

As well as laminating the outside of the cover, we'll also laminate the inside as well.

Throughout

Every page of your Saddle Stiched Brochure will have your chosen lamination finish applied to it, including the inner and outer covers.

Additional Lamination Throughout Requirements:

Maximum thickness including lamination throughout is 5mm.
Inside Stock finish must be Silk and have a minimum weight of 130gsm.
Excludes Soft Touch, Linen and Leather finish.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Requirements:

Foiling requires a Cover Stock of 200gsm or more.

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. It is available on Silk Cover stock of 150gsm or more without Lamination.

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 99mm.
Minimum cover stock weight is 150gsm Silk/Gloss or 140gsm Uncoated.
Throw-out widths can be a minimum of 60% of the finished width and a maximum of 2mm less than the finished width.
The flat spread width, including throw-outs, can be a maximum of 876mm.

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:

A4+ with Pocket Size must be chosen.
Cover Stock Weight must be 300gsm or more.
Not available with Cover Throw-outs, Endorse Folding or Drilling.

Choose to have a non-capacity, glued, pocket on the inside front or inside back cover of your Brochure. The pocket can be used to allow the insertion of A4 documents.

Requirements:

2 Loop Stitched is only available with a Height of 124mm or more.
4 Loop Stitched is only available with a Height of 280mm or more.
Not available with Endorse Folding or Drilling.

What is Loop Stitching?

Loop stitching is an alternative method of binding using loop shaped staples.
The loops allow the brochure to be inserted into a ring binder or lever arched file.
We can produce loop stitched brochures with 2 or 4 loops.

Requirements:

Maximum of 32 pages or 1.5mm brochure thickness.
Minimum size of A4.
Orientation must be Portrait.
Maximum Inside/Cover stock of 170gsm (Silk, Gloss) or 140gsm (Uncoated).
Not available with Lamination, Foiling, Spot UV or Loop Stitching.

Endorse Folding

Endorse folding is a process by which the booklet is folded in half, normally this is to make it smaller in size for postage cost savings.

You may choose what proportion of your chosen quantity are folded/unfolded.

Requirements:

2 Hole Drilling requires a height of at least 124mm.
4 Hole Drilling requires a height of at least 280mm.
3mm hole size only available with 1 hole.
Not available with Loop Stitching or Endorse Folding.

Drill holes have a fixed 80mm pitch for ring binders.