Booklets and Catalogs Xpress

Get Started With Your Booklet

We offer many customizable options to help you create the best booklets for your business.

Choose from three booklet sizes:

• 5.5” x 8.5” is a popular choice and similar in size to A5. A suitable choice for just about any booklet project.
• 11” x 8.5” is the largest size for booklets and similar in size to US letter. Perfect for marketing materials with plenty of visuals.
• 6” x 6” is the smallest available size. This eye-catching square-shaped booklet is perfect for new products and easy to hand out at trade shows and events.

We offer 3 binding options to give your booklets the look and feel that you want. 

• Saddle Stitch uses two staples in the booklet’s folded spine. This allows your booklet to open flat at the center. Ideal for booklets with minimal pages.
• Wire-O uses double wire binding through a row of punched holes. Suitable for booklets that require everyday use.
• Perfect Binding is gluing the pages together to the cover’s spine, giving your booklets a polished look. The minimum page count for perfect binding is 48 pages.

For orders of 250 booklets or more, we also offer 3-hole drilling so you can easily insert booklets into binders. Choose from 3 hole sizes: 3/16,” 5/16,” and 1/4."

Binding can be placed on the left side or along the top of your booklet.

Count Pages, Not Sheets

Choose from 8 to 96 pages. Be sure to include 4 cover pages in your total page count.

You can choose full-color printing on all pages of your custom booklet (cover page and inside pages), or black and white printing for the inner covers and inside pages.

Booklets to Boost Your Business

Use your booklet’s generous amount of space wisely by following these helpful tips.

Leave space for binding. 
Keep this in mind while designing the pages of your booklet. Leave enough room for the binding so important information or artwork will not be cut off. This is especially important for perfect binding as images or text that are too close to the spine may be difficult to see.

Use high-res images. 
Avoid blurry booklet pages by providing high-resolution images and a layout that is at least 300 dpi.

Choose the right paper and cardstock for your pages. 
Heavier stocks are more luxurious, but using too many pages of thick cardstock may cause your booklet to stay open—especially with saddle stitching. Ideally, inner pages should be thinner than cover pages, which need to be durable.

Choose a high gloss finish to make your designs look vivid and select matte if you prefer a more modern, elegant look for your custom printed booklet.

 

Saddle Stitch Binding Saddle Stitch Binding is a process in which the signatures (sheets with several pages printed on them) are stapled through the spine. Loose sheets of paper are first folded and inserted within each other, and the fold becomes the spine of the product where it will be bound. The product is then stapled through the spine, holding the sheets of paper in place. Saddle stitch binding is used for booklets and newsletters that do not have a high number of pages. We offer saddle stitch binding for booklets/catalogs up to 96 pages (including cover) as well as calendars.

Perfect Binding Perfect Binding is used on paperback books, booklets/catalogs, magazines, and inexpensive products such as manuals and workbooks. The cover is glued to the signatures (large sheets printed with a multiple of four pages, which are then folded to make a book) at the spine. A type of flexible adhesive or hot glue is used, and the sides of the papers that are attached to the spine are rough-cut so that they will absorb the glue and stick to the spine. The glue attaches the signatures to the cover of the product, holding the individual pieces in place. The remaining 3 unbound sides of the sheets of paper are face trimmed so that any folds will be removed and the individual pieces of papers separated. Perfect binding can be used for thicker publications, since it can hold more pages than saddle stitch binding. We offer perfect binding for booklets/catalogs from 48-96 pages (including cover).