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Best Practice Quick Guide: Saddle-Stitched Booklet Setup
1. Pick Your Specs
Size: A4 Landscape or A4 Portrait
Pages: Must be in multiples of 4 (up to 64)
Stock: Silk, gloss or uncoated
Cover: Choose a cover substrate to suit your needs
2. Design Your Artwork
Download the artwork templates below and populate them with your content
Bleed: 3mm on all sides
Safe Zone: Keep key content 5mm from edges
Resolution: 300dpi, CMYK colour mode
Avoid Spine Creep: Leave space near spine, especially for thick booklets
All fonts outlined or embedded
We recommend a quiet border of 5mm (ideally 10mm) for a better finish.
Visit our BOOK HUB to get more help
3. Export Your File
Format: CMYK PDF
Layout: Single pages (not spreads) in correct order
Include: Bleed
4. Upload & Order
Choose specs, upload PDF, approve proof, and order
If you add "File Check" as your chosen artwork service, you can upgrade to a free file assist if your file has errors during the upload process.
Best Practice Quick Guide: Saddle-Stitched Booklet Setup
1. Pick Your Specs
Size: A4 Landscape or A4 Portrait
Pages: Must be in multiples of 4 (up to 64)
Stock: Silk, gloss or uncoated
Cover: Choose a cover substrate to suit your needs
2. Design Your Artwork
Download the artwork templates below and populate them with your content
Bleed: 3mm on all sides
Safe Zone: Keep key content 5mm from edges
Resolution: 300dpi, CMYK colour mode
Avoid Spine Creep: Leave space near spine, especially for thick booklets
All fonts outlined or embedded
We recommend a quiet border of 5mm (ideally 10mm) for a better finish.
Visit our BOOK HUB to get more help
3. Export Your File
Format: CMYK PDF
Layout: Single pages (not spreads) in correct order
Include: Bleed
4. Upload & Order
Choose specs, upload PDF, approve proof, and order
If you add "File Check" as your chosen artwork service, you can upgrade to a free file assist if your file has errors during the upload process.
Use our selection of templates to create print ready artwork on Canva. Once created , save your artwork out as a PDF and use it as your print ready artwork.
We recommend a 5mm (ideally 10mm) quiet border for a better finish.
Please allow 3mm bleed on all sides
Please leave a safe zone of 5mm, ideally 10mm
Supply as a CMYK PDF
All fonts outlined or embedded
Resolution of 300dpi.
To supply artwork for spot UV, please read the Technical Specifications tab.
You can download the templates by clicking on "Artwork Templates" to the left.
Customers experiencing difficulty supplying saddle-stitched book artwork can opt for a file assist upgrade - More information.
Need something a little smaller? Take a look at our A5 saddle-stitched booklets or get a bespoke quote

A4 saddle-stitched booklets suit projects with more to say than a leaflet but not enough to justify a full book, such as company brochures, tender documents, product catalogues, newsletters and sales proposals. The larger page size gives more room for images, tables and detailed copy than an A5 or A6 booklet would allow.
Yes, both A4 portrait and A4 landscape are available. Portrait suits text-heavy documents like reports and proposals, while landscape often works better for design-led catalogues, portfolios and anything built around wide images. You can choose your orientation as you choose your specifications above. Be sure to correctly supply your artwork in the right orientation.
Yes, an A4 portrait Canva template is available. Once you've built your design, export it as a PDF and upload it as your print-ready artwork in the usual way. Please note that Canva often uses RGB, so be sure to save it or convert it to CMYK and make sure you are happy with the slight colour difference before printing.
A4 gives more space per page for detailed content and larger imagery, making it the better fit for proposals, reports and catalogues with a lot to cover.
A5 is more compact and portable, which suits programmes, price lists and giveaways where a smaller format feels more practical. If A4 feels larger than your project needs, the A5 saddle stitched range is worth a look.
Each page measures 210mm x 297mm, the standard A4 dimension. The sheets are folded and stapled together along the spine. The result is an A4-sized booklet-style document.
Spine creep happens because the inner pages of a folded booklet sit slightly further from the spine than the outer pages, which can push content closer to the trim edge than intended. On thicker A4 booklets, this effect is more noticeable, so it's worth leaving extra space near the spine on inner pages to stop text or images from being caught by the fold or trim.
A free file assist upgrade is available for customers who run into difficulty supplying artwork for a saddle-stitched booklet. It's worth adding this option if you're not confident your file meets the print specification, so any issues can be sorted before the job goes to print.
Alternatively, we can design the book for you at an additional fee.
Yes. If you find the same specification cheaper from another UK supplier, price match is available, subject to the terms and conditions on the site.
Click on the Price Match icon on the right-hand side of the page and fill in the information so we can get back to you with a price match.


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