Booklet Printing

Booklet Printing NYC

Printing New York are your booklet printing NYC specialists with over 25 years experience in printing high-quality, full color booklets, lookbooks and catalogs with a wide variety of options including saddle stitching, spiral binding, perfect binding, scoring and stapling. Talk to us today for your next print booklet project, we provide the widest range of print products including eco-friendly materials and printing processes. Our state-of-the-art digital printing presses provide an efficient, cost effective and consistent printing result each and every time and we also offer same day booklet printing NYC with easy pickup in Brooklyn. We cater to clients from Long Island and New Jersey as well.

General purpose booklets work well for a variety of applications including brochures, product guides, service manuals, magazines and even books. Our range of card and paper stocks include matte and glossy finishes to give your booklet printing project a unique finish. As booklets need to be attention grabbing and attractive, talk to one of our team to organize our in-house designers to design your next printing booklet to get the best results from your next project.

What is a booklet?

A booklet is a thin paper book with a small number of pages, usually stapled or bound. They are similar to a catalog but typically contain less pages and do not have hard covers. Booklets come in all shapes and sizes, but they are smaller than a real book. A typical booklet has a stack of 2 or more sheets of paper about the size of a letter folded in half. If you are trying to picture this in your mind, think of brochures, cookbooks, and CD inserts.

The big advantage is that you can design them however you want. If you want to go to the basics, you can print them strictly in black and white. For an additional cost, add some color. Let us explain how this will help you in your business.

Saddle Stitching is the most popular booklet binding method

Since Saddle Stitching is ideal for binding a limited number of pages, this method is most often used to create booklets. To illustrate the saddle-stitch binding process, consider a booklet with a finished size of 5.5″ x 8.5″. The pages and cover of this booklet will be made of 8.5″ x 11″ sheets that are folded in half to a size of 5.5″ x 8.5″. The folded sheets will be stapled inside each other and then stapled together along the fold forming the spine of the booklet. The staples are passed through this folded fold on the outside and pinched between the center pages. Each 8.5″ x 11″ sheet, folded in half, creates four pages of the booklet.

How many pages should your booklet have?

Designing without counting the number of pages needed for a brochure is a recipe for design disaster. By knowing the number of pages and creating the correct layout, you can be sure that the printing of your brochures will run smoothly and your company will save time, money, effort and other resources. How many pages should a booklet have?

Honestly, there are very few rules about how many pages a booklet should contain. It can be as few as 8 pages or as many as 200 pages. However, there are things to keep in mind when calculating the number of pages for booklet design. Booklets have a minimum number of pages that should be considered. They require at least 8 pages. Otherwise, the printed product can be considered a folded brochure.

– Stapled – minimum 8 pages
– Perfect binding – minimum 52 pages
– Loop stitch – minimum 8 pages
– Wire-o binding – minimum 10 pages

What do you want to achieve with your booklets?

Think about what you want to achieve with your booklets. What is the purpose of your marketing campaign or why do you need booklets?

Brand book
If you need a company book, you may want to consider the size of your company and your business. Say you are a large corporation working in design, you may need a lot of space to explain every detail of your brand, a 52-64 page booklet will do. On the other hand, if you are a small company just starting to build a brand, you may need less space and a 20-32 page one will suffice.

Direct mail
For example, if you want to send booklets to your customers to tell them about your new products, you may not need many pages. You can use an 8-16 page one so that it can easily be sent by direct mail to your customers.

Trade Shows & Display Fairs
Have you decided to include a booklet in your gift bag at your next trade show? If you plan to give an overview of your business, perhaps a large 12-24 page booklet would be ideal, or if you’ve decided it’s best to just do a promotion for a couple of products, then 8 pages is sufficient.

Types of Booklet Finishing

We offer a wide range of booklet finishing including saddle stitching, perfect binding and stapling. Let’s take a look at the differences between these types of booklet finishing options:

Saddle Stitching

You can save money on book binding by choosing saddle stitching, also known as saddle stapling. The staples act as the spine as the folded pages are fastened together. Saddle stitching, which is employed for booklets and comic books, is, needless to say, not very durable.

Perfect Binding

Pick a book at random and read it. There’s a good chance that what you’re looking at right now is an example of perfect binding. Perfect binding, the standard process for binding paperbacks, entails folding and stitching together paper portions, which are then attached with a strong adhesive to the cover. Sometimes, a book is made by roughening the edges of a stack of paper and then melting a plastic strip to bind the pages together and the soft cover to the pages.

With the price of most paperbacks, perfect binding is a particularly cost-effective binding style. It also provides a very tidy finish.

Case Binding

Hardcover books are often bound using case binding, also known as hardcover binding. Before being put into the cover, sections of pages are folded and sewed together.

Section Sewn

If you’ve ever seen a book that’s been section sewn, you know that the spine runs the length of the book, connecting each folded page portion to the next. The number of pages doesn’t affect the binding’s ability to make the book lie flat. Section stitched is among the most secure binding methods but also one of the most expensive.

The cover and page finishing are just as crucial to the design of a book as the manner of binding it. Are you set on surprising your reader? Take a look at these gorgeous finishing choices.

Varnish Finishing

Varnish “seals” the ink or toner into the paper, making the pages feel smooth. It’s commonly found on magazine covers and in high-end reading material like coffee table books. Spot UV varnishes are worth mentioning because they offer texture and focal appeal to certain portions of the printing surface by a glossy coating that is applied only to (a) limited part(s) of the page or cover and then cured by UV light during the printing process.

Laminated Finish

Covers can be laminated to make them more durable and water-resistant by applying a protective coating that might be glossy or matte. Therefore, this method is typically used for books without a hardcover. It’s common knowledge that high-gloss lamination improves both color saturation and visual clarity. Subdued matte lamination nonetheless conveys an air of refined sophistication.

Foil Stamping Finish

Foil stamping is the process of attaching a flexible metallic foil to particular portions of a print surface by using heat and pressure.

Embossing & Debossing

Embossing is the process of adding texture to a page or cover by raising certain elements, such as a book’s title. In contrast, debossing causes depressions in the paper.