Perfect Bound Books

Perfect Bound Books printed on gloss, silk and uncoated paper in full colour and black only

Perfect Bound Books printed in full colour and black only on gloss, silk and uncoated paper can have a finished size of A6, A5, A4 and 210mm square. They can be portrait or landscape. Our full colour Perfect Bound Books printed on silk, uncoated or gloss paper are beautifully litho printed in full colour – also called “four colour process”. Full colour printing is also known as CMYK printing. Our full colour Perfect Bound Booklets printing uses the following ink colours: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black. When combined, these colours can give the illusion of nearly all colours. Our black only Perfect Bound Booklets printed on silk, gloss or uncoated paper are beautifully litho printed using black ink.

A wide range of papers for full colour and black only Perfect Bound Booklets

GSM is an abbreviation for “grams per square metre” and it describes how heavy the material is – it is based on the weight of one square metre of the paper in grams. We offer silk paper of 90gsm, 115gsm, 130gsm and 170gsm. Full colour or black only Perfect Bound Books printed on silk paper have a smooth surface, unlike the rough texture of uncoated papers and boards or the shiny surface of gloss art papers. We offer gloss paper of 115gsm, 130gsm and 170gsm. Full colour or black only Perfect Bound Booklets printed on gloss paper have a shiny surface, unlike the rough texture of uncoated papers and boards or the smooth surface of silk art papers. We offer uncoated paper of 100gsm. Black only or full colour Perfect Bound Books printed on uncoated paper have a more tactile feel than the glossy surface of gloss art papers and boards or the smooth surface of silk art papers.

Artwork for black only or full colour Perfect Bound Booklets printed on silk, gloss and uncoated paper

When preparing your artwork for a black only or full colour Perfect Bound Books printed on silk, uncoated or gloss paper it is important to add 3mm bleed all round the edge of the finished size. It is easy to set up bleed in desktop publishing programs such as Adobe InDesign, CorelDraw or Microsoft Publisher, but is much more difficult in Adobe Photoshop and Microsoft Word. Another important artwork consideration is the need to keep any important information away from the edges of the pages of your full colour or black only Perfect Bound Booklets printed on uncoated, gloss or silk paper. This area without any important text is known as a Quiet Area. The Quiet Area should be at least 3mm wide and if possible 5mm wide at the head, foot and foredge and on the spine side of the pages it should be 10mm. Please download a template.This improves the attractiveness of the design of your black only or full colour Perfect Bound Book printed on silk, gloss or uncoated paper. All artwork is always checked very carefully by our studio before your black only or full colour Perfect Bound Booklet is printed on silk, gloss or uncoated paper.