Text Book Printing

Custom Text Book Printing

A custom textbook is a great way to ensure that the material you teach your students is available and easy to find in a single perfect-bound volume.

Choose from the following options to create your custom Text Book:

• Custom sizes up to A4

• From 40 to 400 pages

• Minimum order quantity of just 1 book

• Internal stocks available in a range of finishes, including uncoated, silk, and gloss

• Cover stocks available in a range of finishes, including uncoated, silk, gloss, and creative options

• Lamination available in a range of finishes, including matt, gloss, and soft touch

The pages and cover are glued together at the spine with a strong, flexible thermal glue then the remaining sides are trimmed to give clean ‘perfect’ edges. Our PUR bound Brochures are up to 60% stronger due to the use of a PUR adhesive, making them ideal for use with heavy paper stocks and larger page numbers - these Books are built to last!

You can include to your Textbook any subject information deemed important, whatever your requirements, our range of Perfect Bound Textbooks are sure to deliver. Use our handy spine width calculator above to calculate the width of your Perfect Bound spine based on the options you have selected.

We aim to produce order quantities of 500 and below using our state of the art digital facilities, while larger quantities are produced using our modern litho presses.

UK shipping is free, exceptions apply.

Technical Specifications for Text Books Printing

Setting Up Design Files For Textbook Printing

• For Perfect Bound Text Books, please submit artwork as two files.

  • One file is the cover pages, submitted as a spread including the spine.  Please use our spine width calculator to ensure you have the correct spine size.

  • The second file should be the inner pages, submitted with individual pages in running order.

  • For example, for a 40 page brochure, please supply an inner PDF of 36 pages and a cover PDF of two pages – page 1 being the outside cover spread and page 2 being the inside cover spread.

• Booklets must contain a page total divisible by 4.

• It is recommended you do not place words, page numbers or images too close to the edges of each page.  We would recommend a safe zone on all sides of at least 10mm for Perfect Bound.

• To ensure the best possible finish, please leave the inside spine and 5mm either side of the spine blank as the glue works better on areas with no print.

• Include 3mm bleed on all sides

• Supply as a CMYK PDF

• Outline or embed fonts

• 300dpi resolution

For more guidance on how to successfully set up and submit your artwork, see our booklets and brochures help pages.

High Quality Printing with Sustainability in mind.

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.

Read full Environmental policy here.