Soft Cover, PUR & Wire Bound, Book Printing

Soft Cover and PUR Bound, Online Book Printing Prices are now available here! Why are our PUR Bound books better? PUR bindi ng is stronger than Perfect Binding, so while Perfect Binding can be the appropriate choice for Magazine Printing, it's not known for its lasting qualities. PUR Bnding however, is more of a lifetime book binding solution. Try our Online, Soft Cover, PUR Bound Book Printing Calculator Today, for all your Soft Cover Book Printing Needs. For Book Printing quantities exceeding 600 copies, try our Custom Quoting Form here to have your book printing quote manually assessed by one of our Book Printing Estimators. For more information relating to PUR Binding and Perfect Binding, read our PUR bound, soft cover, book printing FAQ page here. *All book printing prices are pending confirmation.

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HOW TO SET UP YOUR FILE FOR BOOK PRINTING

1. THE SPINE WIDTH

First, check to see if your book can even be PUR Perfect Bound.

Using our Spine Width Calculator here, check your book's Spine Width to make sure that it's at least 4mm wide.

Books that are too thin don't PUR Bind well.

We can still produce books that are under 4mm Spine Width, but we'll need to make them as a Saddle Stiched (2 Staple) Book.

If your Book is under 4mm Spine Width and you would like to proceed with 2 Staple Saddle Stitching, then your book page count needs to be a multiple of 4 pages. I.e. 4, 8, 12 16 etc.

If you would like to proceed with a 2 Staple Saddle Stitch Book, your Book Printing file can be sent through as a Single-Page PDF file with 2.3mm Offset Crop Marks and 4 or 5mm Bleed.

2. INTERNAL PAGES & COVER SPREADS

Setting up your Book Printing file for a PUR or Perfect Bound Book or Magazine, means you'll need to provide all the Internal book pages as a "single page string PDF", maybe with crop marks and bleed; and the book's cover file as a Double Page Spread (DPS) with the Spine running down the middle... Confused? Don't worry, we'll explain more below.

INSIDE PAGE SET UP

When setting up and saving your book's internal pages for book printing, you'll need to provide the file as a Single-Page String PDF File.

While Crop Marks and Bleed are always encouraged, if your book is a text-based novel and has no printable elements near the edges, then all you need is a Single Page String PDF File in the correct size.

Yes, that does also mean that you can use a Word Document, if that's what you have, and it's properly formatted to the correct size and is in PDF.

BOOK COVER SET UP

Your Book Cover file, on the other hand, needs to be set-up as a Cover Spread, not a single string PDF.

That means for a book with an outer printed cover only, your back cover will be positioned on the left, the spine will be in the middle and the front cover will be on the right, all of the same spread.

The spine width is calculated by the width of each page multiplied by the number of pages in your book.

When you quote your book with us here at Goliath, your quote will be saved under your email address.

and the Spine Width can be calculated at the link above.

If the inside of your book cover is also meant to be printed, the same rules apply as the outer cover, but a second-page spread is required for the inside.

That also means the overall dimensions of the outer cover will be the same overall dimensions of the inside cover.

The three biggest differences between the outer cover spread and the inner cover spread are 1. the inside cover spread does not need spine art.

2. On both sides of the inside spine, you can leave another 4mm clearance to allow for the book covers front and back spine hindges.

and 3. while the front cover sits on the right-hand side of the outer cover, the reverse is true for the inside front cover. The inside front cover sits on the left and the inside back cover sits on the right.