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Perfect bound books are a popular print that delivers a sleek, professional appearance for your publications. Ideal for a variety of books—including novels, catalogues, magazines, and more—perfect bound books offer a high-quality finish that stands out. The clean, polished appearance makes perfect bound books an attractive choice for both businesses and individuals seeking premium book printing. Perfect bound books are designed to be robust, ensuring pages remain intact and the spine holds up well over time. These books are easy to read and handle, laying nearly flat without the risk of pages falling out, providing a seamless reading experience.
Recommendation - To prevent marks on spines with full ink coverage, we recommend applying a lamination to your perfect bound.
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Perfect bound booklets have gained significant popularity in both creative and professional industries due to their lavish cover materials and impeccable precision finish. This premium binding method is perfect for brochures, catalogues, magazines, and any publication with a substantial number of pages.
How are perfect bound books made?
Our perfect bound books are produced through a two-step process. First, the inner pages are grouped together, while the outer cover is printed separately. These elements are then seamlessly combined by gluing the inner pages to the inside of the cover at the spine. The result is a sturdy and long-lasting structure capable of withstanding extensive use.
Tailor your perfect bound booklets to suit your specific needs and branding preferences:
For best results, especially with covers featuring heavy ink coverage, we recommend lamination. Lamination protects the cover from potential marking due to ink transfer or friction during transit or storage. Choose from options like the durable Soft Touch or the elegant Matt lamination.
Who Needs Perfect Bound Booklets?
Whatever your or your client’s requirements, our range of Perfect Bound books is sure to deliver. Use our handy spine width calculator above to determine the width of your Perfect Bound spine based on the options you have selected.
UK shipping is free, exceptions apply. If you need assistance with your perfect bound booklet artwork, please see our Help Centre article here.
Order today to elevate your publications with our high-quality, customisable perfect bound booklets.
Artwork Submission:
1. Submit Two Files:
For example, for a 40-page brochure, supply an inner PDF of 36 pages and a cover PDF of two pages (page 1 is the outside cover spread, and page 2 is the inside cover spread).
File Requirements:
Lamination Recommendation:
We recommend adding lamination to the cover pages for protection. During production, the spine is glued to the inner pages using a clamp, which may cause scuffing or printer marks around the spine area and any other heavy ink coverage area on the cover.
If lamination is not desired, reduce graphics or background colours crossing into the outer and inner spine area.
Additional Resources:
For advice on setting up images that cross overspreads, see our article: Tips on Setting Up a Perfect Bound Book with Crossover Images and Text.
For more guidance on setting up and submitting your artwork, see our Booklets and Brochures Help Pages.
For help with booklet printing, visit the Resource Hub where we have a handy booklet help section.
Ensure your files are prepared correctly to achieve the best possible finish for your perfect bound booklets.
We are working hard to mitigate our environmental impact and are following an emissions reduction program to lower our direct and indirect emissions which will lead us to Net Zero by 2040.
We are working hard to introduce more environmentally credible products in our range and we encourage you to consider using more of those products.
Tradeprint supports Two Sides, the print and paper advocacy group that aims to dispel myths around greenwashing and promote paper as a truly sustainable product.
We are committed to reducing waste and in particular aiming to eliminate problematic plastics from our printing and fulfilment operation.
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