Booklet Printing Information and Ideas:
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Booklet Printing when High Impact Counts

Booklet Printing encompasses a wide variety of documents and purposes, each with its own special considerations for printing. Because of huge range of formats booklets can be, printing them professionally needs some planning and preparation at all stages of the production process. Here are some of our best tips for planning and printing the perfect booklet.

First, though, what exactly is a booklet? Well, we think of anything with multiple pages as a booklet. It can be 8 ½ x 11 in size or it may be smaller or larger. We print a huge assortment of booklets each year and none really fall into a “typical” format or type.

Common booklet types include:

• Annual Reports
• Product catalogues
• Newsletters
• Magazines
• Sales booklets
• Multi-page flyers
• Proposals
• Presentation materials

You can see with such variety, booklet printing needs to take all your creative and business objectives into account.

When planning your booklet, first settle on what you want to achieve by printing a booklet. There are some proven formats that work well for certain results.

Then pay attention to your target market – who is your intended reader? Make sure you have picture-perfect text with no typos, mistakes or omissions. Write engaging copy that grabs your reader’s attention.

Create an original and fetching design – “creative” is often the critical component in a successful booklet.

Decide on what your distribution will be – how many do you need printed?

Talk to your commercial printer or call us about the various printing methods and find out which is the most economical for the kind of booklet you want printed.

How will you want your booklet bound? Just as there are many shapes and forms for booklets, there are also many ways of keeping all the pages together. And a paper clip is not an option! :-)

Some of the more common types of binding include spiral, cerlox, saddle stitching, stapling and gluing. Each is dependant on how many pages your booklet contains, and what type of cover it has. See our section on Bindings for more details about this. We can help you decide if your not sure what will work the best. Contact us for help.

How we can reduce your workload

We can help you make the tough decisions because we've been helping our customers for over 30 years, we've just about heard it all - almost!

But when you call us, you won't reach a call centre; you won't have to wait in "voice-mail oblivion"; you won't have to press one for more options; we answer our phones ourselves because that's why we're here: to make sure your print project is as effortless as picking up the phone.

And our specialized booklet printing process produces an expensive looking high quality booklets, on any kind of stock you need. We recommend a heavier stock to give your document some heft and impart a feeling of strength and durability. Booklets printed on lighter-weight stock feel flimsy and cheap which is not usually the impression you want to leave with your customers!

Along with our selection of commercial printing processes and presses for quick turnaround and perfect results, we have a compete bindery service so no matter what type of booklet printing projects you have we can help you design it, lay it out, print all your pages and covers, and bind it to add the finishing “polish” giving you a professional and eye-catching booklet of any kind.

Here’s a sample of just some of the booklets we’ve printed for our clients:

Booklet Design Samples

Booklet Templates

Unique Booklet Ideas