A4 Case Bound Booklets

A4 Hardback Book Printing

Our hardback books also known as casebound books are built to stand the test of time and are the perfect way to share your story with the world. These booklets can be printed on various stocks with the possibility to add matt and gloss lamination to the cover.

Print your A4 casebound booklet using the following options

• Quantities from 1 - 1000

• Page count from 40 - 400

• Available to order from just 1 copy.

• Gloss, silk or uncoated for your inner pages. We will insert endpapers and fly sheets so there are no additional artwork requirements.

• Lamination on the cover is included. Simply select an elegant matt or a vibrant gloss.

• The minimum Spine width available is 9mm.

What is case binding?

Casebound or hardback books as they are also known are created using a specialist method called case binding. The front and back cover of your hardback book is printed and wrapped around a greyboard to create the ‘case’ or hardback of your book. The inner or text pages are bound together using a strong PUR (Polyurethane Reactive) adhesive like our perfect bound booklets. White endpapers and fly sheets are then inserted. The un-printed endpapers are glued to the case on the front and back. The flysheets are also blank and inserted just before and after your printed pages.

UK shipping is free, exceptions apply.

We also offer A4 perfect bound books | A4 saddle stitched books | A4 spot UV books | A4 wiro bound books | A4 hardback books

Technical Specifications for A4 Case binding

Technical specification for A4 casebound printed books:

• Available to order from just 1 copy.

• Case - 2400micron greyboard

• Binding - PUR (glued)

• End papers and fly sheets - Blank 170gsm white uncoated

• Inner stocks - 100gsm Uncoated, 130gsm Gloss, 130gsm Silk, 150gsm Gloss, 150gsm Silk, 170gsm Gloss, 170gsm Silk, 170gsm Uncoated

• Minimum spine width available is 9mm

Artwork specification:

For Case Bound Booklets, please submit artwork as two files.

One file is the outside cover page, submitted as a spread including the spine, hinge and wrap around. Please download our templates as they contain all of our bleed, safe zone and wrap around requirements.  Also, 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 booklet ordered with 40 inner pages please supply an inner PDF of 40 pages in running order and a cover PDF, containing your cover artwork supplied as a spread including your spine and wrap around.

• Booklets must contain an inner page total divisible by 4.

• Include 3mm bleed on all sides

• 10mm safe zone on all sides

• Supply as a CMYK PDF in PDF/X1a format

• Outline or embed fonts

• 300dpi resolution

Unprinted (white) end papers and fly sheets will be inserted for you when we receive your artwork.

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.