Instruction Manual Printing

Print Folded Instruction Manuals

A printed instruction manual provides more than just essential guidance for your customers—it adds a polished, professional touch to your product packaging, creating a memorable first impression and significantly enhancing the overall customer experience. A thoughtfully crafted manual reflects your brand’s meticulous attention to detail and dedication to quality, reinforcing the perception of reliability, expertise, and professionalism. By offering clear, well-structured guidance, a physical manual helps establish trust and instills confidence in your customers, ensuring they feel supported and well-informed as they engage with your product. Such a manual is not merely an accessory but an integral part of a seamless and positive user journey, designed to make your product’s features accessible and enjoyable for all.

With a vast selection of folding and design options available, we can tailor the layout to best meet your specific needs, ensuring that each step of your instructions is presented in the most organised and user-friendly way. From compact fold-outs that provide quick reference for on-the-go assistance to comprehensive, multi-page booklets for more detailed and complex guidance, we offer a variety of formats to suit the unique demands of your product. Our design options include sophisticated folding styles such as cross folds, Z folds, and W folds, each crafted to make your manual both visually appealing and functional. These versatile choices allow you to select the perfect format for your instructions, enhancing accessibility while maintaining a consistent and refined aesthetic.

All folded leaflets printed on 130gsm and 170gsm sized A4 to A6, or A7 on paper less than 250gsm, are tax-exempt.

UK shipping is free, exceptions apply.

Technical Specifications for Instruction Manuals

How To Design Unlaminated Folded Leaflets

• Artwork templates are available for download to assist with setting up your files. These include the panel widths required, too.

• Before submitting folded leaflet artwork, we recommend you print a mock up to check the artwork is positioned correctly.

• When creating any leaflet, please supply your artwork as a 2 page, double sided PDF. For example, on an A4 folded to A5, page 1 should display pages 4 & 1 of the leaflet and page 2 should display pages 2 & 3, as shown in this illustration. 

• When creating artwork with a landscape fold, please submit the front and back pages on the same page, with the front page orientation correct and the back page rotated 180°. The inside pages should be on page 2 and rotated 180° so that the orientation is correct on the final print. You can check the orientation is correct by printing a mock up before submitting your artwork.

• Please note for artwork that includes coloured backgrounds, or coloured elements which overlap the fold lines, we would recommend ordering our laminated leaflets to protect the ink and paper from cracking and provide a smooth fold.

For more guidance on how to set up artwork for folded leaflets, plus answer other product questions, visit our folded leaflets Help Centre pages. 

UK shipping is free, exceptions apply.

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.