Catalogue Printing

Printed Catalogues

Our catalogues created from Perfect Bound Booklets, have gained significant popularity across various industries, thanks to their luxurious cover materials and flawless finish. Perfect binding provides a premium finish, making it ideal for products, shopping, or home decor catalogues.

Crafted through a meticulous two-step process, our perfect bound books ensure durability and resilience. First, the inner pages are assembled, and the outer cover is printed separately. Then, these components are seamlessly combined by adhering the inner pages to the cover at the spine, resulting in a sturdy structure capable of withstanding extensive use.

Recognising the importance of customisation, we offer a wide array of options, including paper stocks, cover materials, and sizes. This allows you to tailor your perfect bound book to your exact specifications.

Key features include:

• Custom sizes up to A4

• Internal stocks available in a range of finishes, including uncoated, silk, and gloss

• Cover stocks available in a range of finishes, including uncoated, silk, gloss, and creative options

• Lamination available in a range of finishes, including matt, gloss, and soft touch

• Page counts ranging from 40 to 400

• Orders starting from as little as 1 book

Whether you need just a few or a larger quantity, we've got you covered. We utilise state-of-the-art digital facilities for order quantities of 500 and below, while larger quantities are produced using our modern litho presses.

If you need some help putting your perfect bound booklet artwork together, please see our Help Centre

UK shipping is free, exceptions apply.

Technical Specification for Catalogues

How To Set Up Design Files For Catalogue Printing

• For catalogues, please submit artwork as two files.

  • One file is the cover pages, submitted as a spread including the spine.  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 40-page brochure, please supply an inner PDF of 36 pages and a cover PDF of two pages – page 1 being the outside cover spread and page 2 being the inside cover spread.

• Booklets must contain a page total divisible by 2.

• It is recommended you do not place words, page numbers or images too close to the edges of each page.  We would recommend a safe zone on all sides of at least 10mm for Perfect Bound.

• To ensure the best possible finish, please leave the inside spine and 5mm on either side of the spine blank as the glue works better on areas with no print. 

NOTE: We recommend adding lamination to the cover pages for protection. During production, the spine is glued to the inner pages using a clamp which may cause scuffing or printer marks around the spine area and any other heavy ink coverage area on the cover.  If lamination is not desired, we advise reducing any graphics or background colours crossing into the outer and inner spine area.

If you need some advice on how to set up images that cross overspreads, see our article here - Tips on setting up a Perfect Bound Book with crossover images and text.

For more guidance on how to successfully set up and submit your artwork, see our booklets and brochures help pages.

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.