Offset Printing - Need to know Information

Here are some helpful pieces that will give you direct insight into offset printing for both hard cover and paper cover books. Each quote we offer is specifically designed to what you need so please reach out for pricing.

Standard Trim Sizes:

  • 5 x 8

  • 5.5 x 8.5

  • 6 x 9

  • 7 x 10

  • 8 x 10

  • 8.5 x 11

  • 11 x 8.5 (oblong or landscape)

We can run any trim sizes up to our max equipment capabilities listed below.

Equipment max / minimums for books:

Hard Cover Books - (boards add .25” to final trim size)

  • 4” minimum width

  • 5.5” minimum height

  • 11” wide

  • 13” tall  

  • Minimum Page count 28 pages (requires cover stock text pages to bind)

  • Maximum spine width for sewn text pages = 2.75”

  • Maximum spine width for Adhesive Case bound = 2.25”

 Paper Cover Books:

  • 4” minimum width

  • 5.5” minimum height

  • 12” wide

  • 12” tall  

  • Minimum Page count 8 pages

  • Maximum spine width for sewn text = 2.75”

  • Maximum spine width for perfect bind = 2.25”

 

Hard Cover Books

  • Printed hard cover which can be ran on coated or uncoated paper and wrapped to boards.

  • Cloth hard covers

  • Leather and Bonded Leather

  • Dust Jackets – We have a dust jacketing machine in house for higher qty dust jacket application.

Cover applications Available

  • foil stamping

  • embossing

  • debossing

  • Burnishing

  • Ink Rubs

  • die cut

  • silk screen

  • UV (matte and gloss) Spot and Flood

  • Varnish (matte and gloss) Spot and Flood

  • Scodix. Our ability to add Scodix has been a huge hit for our clients. This is a raised application that offers texture and can be textured out to fit the image! We apply that on top of our soft touch matte lamination.

Binding options

  • Smythe Sewn: Paper Cover & Casebound

  • PUR / Layflat

  • PUR Perfect bound & Adhesive Bound

  • EVA Adhesive Glue

  • Saddle Stitch

Quantities:

Minimum order on press is 250 copies and we can run up to 40,000 units and more.