Saddle stitched
Booklets

Paper stock

160gsm silk
250gsm silk
170gsm matt
300gsm matt
100gsm Conqueror, 300gsm Conqueror

Printing Processes

Digital or Litho

Finishing

Saddle-stitching or Perfect Binding

ARtwork

Standard artwork size:

A5 (portrait and landscape)
A4 (portrait)

Press-ready Specifications

PRESS-READY PDF

Manually select 'Print' and choose the 'Press Quality' setting
Add crop marks (outer corner marks, not full colour bars) outset by 6 points, so they do not touch the cut size of the document
Include bleed

APPLICATIONS AND FONTS

Optimise your PDF for print (300 dpi images)
Embed your fonts or outline Any ultra light, light or Thin fonts change to outline
Choose "Press Quality" when creating your PDF

COLOUR

Artwork should be CMYK or greyscale
Please be aware that screen colours (RGB) may appear duller or lacking in contrast when printed.

SCANS AND IMAGES

Colour images should be CMYK colour mode
Scanned or bitmapped images should be 300 dpi

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

We accept files saved using one of the following software: Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
For the Adobe packages please save all files with the outlined fonts.
Files created in one of the Microsoft packages usually get better results if they’re saved as pdfs.
To help as many people as possible, The London Printers accepts a range of different formats. These are: JPEG, PNG, PDF. For the photography artwork we would recommend high resolution JPEGs (preferably un-compressed).
For Graphics or Text files please save it as print-ready, vector based PDF.
For a mix of graphics and photography artwork the best solution would be print-ready PDFs.

BLEED REQUIREMENT

The usual bleed requirement is 2mm all round.