Perfect Bound Notebooks
- Our most popular wiro bound notebook is an A4 with lined inner pages and gloss laminated covers.
- 80gsm premium uncoated paper is used for all inner pages of the notebook and you have a choice of lined (printed one colour black ink) or blank pages.
- If you want a notebook containing 100 double sided sheets of 80gsm paper, you enter the number of leaves as 102. This gives you a double sided front and back cover with 100 bound leaves.
Personalised Perfect Bound Notebooks – Give a Facelift to Your Stationery
Are you looking for high-quality, customisable perfect bound notebooks in the UK? You are at the right place! Here at BookletPrinting.co.uk, we are focused on creating sleek and professional notebooks that will perfectly suit both personal and business uses.
What is a Perfect Bound Notebook?
Perfect binding is a professional binding technique that gives your notebooks an extremely polished, square-edged finish. This technique glues the pages and cover together along the spine for a durable and stylish notebook that will lie flat when closed. Be it for sketching, note-taking, or professional branding, these notebooks combine elegance with practicality.
Customisation Options for Your Perfect Bound Notebooks
We can offer a number of options to make sure your notebooks perfectly reflect your style and needs:
Sizes: A4 or A5, depending on the purpose.
Cover Design: Upload your custom artwork in a print-ready PDF format for a seamless finish. Personalisation is easy—just attach a CSV file with names if needed.
Inner Pages: Lined or plain white paper, printed on both sides for maximum usability.
Finishing Touches: Use varnish lamination on the cover for longevity and a better appearance.
Perfect Uses for Personalised Notebooks
Corporate Branding: Amaze both your clients and employees with the professional look of notebooks.
Creative Projects: Perfect for use as a sketchbook by any artist or a planner by any designer.
Personal Organisation: Keep notes, to-do lists, and ideas in a stylish and durable format.
Why Perfect Bound Notebooks?
Professional Appeal: Sleek, modern appearance; solid finish.
Customizable: To your design and for your purpose.
Durable: This will be a long-lasting book due to high-quality materials and binding.
Our Advanced Printing Process
We use the latest printing technology to ensure every notebook comes with bright colours, vivid details, and flawless finishes. Our state-of-the-art perfect binding process ensures durability while being refined in appearance.
From branded business notebooks to personalised gifts, our perfect bound notebooks come in premium quality. Contact us today for a quote and experience superior UK notebook printing!
Seamless Online Printing – Fast Delivery
Access a simple online platform with an easy ordering process to have perfect notebooks delivered to your doors. Most orders are ready and dispatched within 24 hours; we offer FREE UK Economy Delivery on all orders of £80 and above.
Quality Unmatched, Always
At BookletPrinting.co.uk, we are committed to ensuring that every notebook printed exceeds your expectations. In the unlikely event you are unhappy, we will either reprint the order or provide a refund without all the hassle or stress.
From custom design to quality materials, be amazed with our perfect bound notebooks. Ready to get started? Have a look at our options today and bring your custom notebooks to life!
Frequently Asked Questions
Q. What are perfect bound books?
A. Perfect bound books are created by glueing the pages to the spine of the book. Perfect bound books get their name from the process that they undergo: the pages and the cover of the book are all cut to be the exact same size and therefore they line up together perfectly.
Q. Where would you use perfect bound books?
A. Perfect bound printing is commonly used for magazines, portfolios, graphic novels, workbooks, catalogues, brochures and reports. This method binds your document together with adhesive along the spine to provide a smooth and stylish finish.
Q. What are the benefits of perfect binding?
A. Perfect bound books are professional in appearance, cost-effective even for low quantities and a great option for documents from 40 up to 700 printed pages. The binding glue is flexible and non-brittle, meaning that the books open flatter without cracking the spine or pages falling out.
Q. What is the difference between perfect bound and saddle-stitched?
A. Perfect bound and saddle-stitched are the two most common methods of booklet binding. Saddle-stitching involves binding multiple pages together along a fold (also known as the spine) with two staples. On the other hand, perfect bound books have a flat spine. The sheets of paper are gathered together and glue is applied to the binding edge, then the cover of the book is placed on the glue.
Q. What is the process for binding perfect bound books?
A. With perfect binding, all the printed pages are stacked in a block and squared off. Then the pages are glued together along the spine with extremely strong PUR adhesive. The printed cover is then wrapped around and glued on to the spine as well. The remaining three edges are then trimmed so that the edges of the block are perfectly neat.
Q. Can a perfect-bound book have printing on its spine?
A. In most cases, yes…but the book’s spine has to be wide enough to properly display the printing. We recommend that you don’t add text to your spine if it is thinner than 3mm. When you place your order you will be shown your spine thickness based on your selection.
Q. What glue do you use for your perfect bound books?
A. We only use PUR glue to perfect bind our books as it is much stronger than hot melt glue. PUR binding is more tolerant to higher and lower temperatures as is very flexible and non-brittle.
Q. What paper options do you offer with perfect bound books?
A. Choose from silk, gloss or uncoated for your cover from 215gsm to 350gsm. Your inner (text) pages can be uncoated, silk or gloss, in weights ranging from 100gsm to 200gsm.
Q. Can any book be perfect bound?
A. No. The thickness of your inner paper type determines how many pages you can select. This is because the minimum spine thickness is 2mm. If you choose 100gsm uncoated then 28 pages will be the minimum page count. If you choose 170gsm uncoated then 20 pages will be the minimum page count. If your book contains less pages than the minimum page count then saddle-stitched or wiro-binding would be a more suitable option.
Q. What sizes are available for my perfect bound books?
A. Our perfect bound books are available in A4 portrait, 1/3 A4 portrait, A5 portrait or landscape or 210 x 210mm square.
Q. What finishes do you offer for perfect bound books?
A. Our perfect bound books are available in a number of finishes from single or double-sided lamination in gloss or matt finish or opt for no lamination. Matt lamination gives a soft, contemporary effect. Adding a gloss lamination gives a higher quality shine finish than printing on gloss paper alone. Lamination is most useful with solid colours or images to enhance their vibrancy or where you want to protect your printed documents. The most popular option is to matt laminate your cover.
Q. Do you have any templates that I could download?
A. We have a fantastic selection of design templates for perfect-bound book printing available in Adobe Illustrator, InDesign and PDF formats. View our Design Templates which are located on the product page.
Q. How do I supply my artwork?
A. Please supply perfect bound books as two multi-page PDFs consisting of a cover file and inners file. The cover PDF should be supplied as a spread including the spine. The inner PDF should contain only the inner pages in correct running order.
Q. Do I need bleed and crop marks on my artwork?
A. Yes, this is very important when providing artwork for perfect-bound books. When an image or colour on the page extends past the crop marks, it is regarded as bleed. As there is a degree of movement when printing on any press, you should always create at least 3mm bleed on all edges.
Q. Do I need to supply fonts?
A. If you supply us with a Print Ready PDF then fonts are embedded or converted to outlines. However, we may request the fonts if files are supplied in other formats.
Q. Do I need to adhere to certain margins when designing my perfect bound book?
A. The cover is fixed to the spine 7mm on the side of the perfect-bound book. With this in mind, we recommend that you use a margin of 12mm minimum from the bound edge of each page.
Design Templates
We provide templates in Adobe Illustrator, InDesigns and PDF formats.- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe Indesign
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