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FAQ
How is Page Count Determined?
Each side of a sheet counts as one page, so a book’s cover alone includes 4 pages: front cover, inside front cover, inside back cover, and back cover.
Binding-Specific Page Counts:
- Saddle Stitch: Requires page counts divisible by 4.
- Perfect Binding & Wire-O: Requires page counts divisible by 2.
What’s the Maximum or Minimum Page Count?
The binding method you choose will influence the page count range:
- Saddle Stitching: Works best for projects between 8 and 60 pages, with page counts in multiples of 4.
- Perfect Binding: Suitable for 32 pages + cover and up, with page counts in multiples of 2.
- Spiral or Wire-O Binding: This option is flexible and can handle page counts from just a few pages up to 520 on thinner stock, with page counts in multiples of 2.
Can Perfect Bound Books Lay Flat?
Perfect bound books are not designed to lay flat when opened. Forcing them to do so can damage the spine and weaken the glue holding the pages together. To maintain the book’s quality and durability, avoid pressing it down.
Does Pricing Include Multiple Editions or Covers of a Book?
Pricing reflects the cost of one edition only per book. If you need additional editions or multiple covers, this requires a custom quote.
Does Pricing Include Hardcover and Landscape Books?
The listed pricing is for portrait orientation soft cover books only. If you’re interested in hardcover or landscape formats, please request a custom quote.
What is the Difference Between Coated and Uncoated Paper?
Coated paper has a smooth finish that visually sharpens images and enhances color. The coating can be glossy or semi-gloss, depending on the desired effect, but both options contribute to a polished, professional look.
Uncoated paper has a natural, porous surface. It’s perfect for projects where readability and a tactile feel are priorities. It’s also a practical option for items that need to be written on, like letterheads or notepads.
Should I Choose Color or Black-and-White Printing for My Bound Product?
If your project includes color anywhere – even a single image or logo – it’s a 4-color (4C) job. Our standard pricing is designed for 4C printing, providing vibrant, professional results fast.
Single-color (one-ink) printing is available by custom quote and may offer some cost savings, but 4C remains the most common option. If you’re unsure, we are happy to talk with you to determine the best options for your unique printing needs.
How Long Does it Take to Produce a Bound Product?
Once PDF proofs are approved, production can take approximately 3 days for saddle stitched publications and roughly 3-5 days for perfect bound, plus shipping. Shipping times vary from next-day delivery to a few days, depending on your location relative to our NYC print house.
If you need a precise timeline, send us your project details, and we’ll set up a schedule that works for you.
How Can I Avoid Delays in Prepress and Design?
Before submitting your file, double-check that it’s set up correctly to prevent any prepress delays:
- Bright, high-resolution images (300 dpi)
- Files exported with crop marks and 1/8” bleed all around
- Files exported as single pages within one PDF
Is Shipping Really Free?
Yes! We’ll cover the cost to ship your order to a single location via ground delivery. If you need expedited shipping or drop shipping to multiple locations, additional fees will apply.
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If you’re still unsure about any details or need guidance on your options, contact us here. We’re here to make the process smooth, simple, and tailored to your needs.
Quality Bookbinding, Fast & Local
Our bookbinding services can help you create and deliver specialty books for businesses and events of all kinds. We can work with you to provide the perfect bound book to clients, customers, stakeholders or guests. Some examples of books we can bind and finish include bound reports, portfolios and corporate presentations, gifts for special events, albums and journals for business or nonprofit use, scripts and musical scores, and professional legal and medical bookbinding for records, journals, cases and other documents.
Bookbinding Services
Whether you’re having a book printed with us or elsewhere, our bookbinding services focus on getting the details just right, to create the high quality we’re known for. We offer a wide range of bookbinding and finishing styles so that you can customize your book project from start to end.
Options include foil stamping or embossing on covers and spines, rounding corners, and several kinds of binding like perfect binding, saddle stitch, wire-o, tape binding, and Chicago post.
There’s no limit on the number of books you can have bound, whether that’s two dozen or hundreds. Small boutique bookbinding projects are welcome, as are large corporate ones. Our printing capabilities are highly flexible to fit your bookbinding needs. Large formats are also possible, and we can print materials in black-and-white or full digital color.
Examples of our bookbinding work:
Types of Bookbinding
Softcovers can be perfect or square-bound, with covers of varying weight and size, depending on what fits your book the best. We also have coil bindings available if you are producing manuals, handbooks, cookbooks, scores and anything else that will be used frequently and needs to be able to lay flat when open. There are different weights and coil types available based on the size of your book when printed; talk to our experienced press team, and they’ll make sure you have the best type of binding for your project.
If your project includes smaller book needs, such as booklets, custom catalogs, or playbills, we have a fast and cost-effective saddle-stitching option available.
Our Approach
At Thomas Group, our mission is to offer our customers the best quality in bookbinding and printing services they can find in NYC. When you pick up a book we’ve made, we want you to be impressed with the attention to detail we give to every job. And coming in neck-and-neck with that quality promise is our dedication to customer service. We will work quickly and efficiently on your behalf until your bookbinding project is in your hands, just the way you want it. To make sure your order gets where it needs to go on time, we offer courier delivery from our Manhattan location to anywhere in NYC’s five boroughs. If you’re outside the city, we’ll ship it fast, nationwide.
We’ve been in business since 1912 here and are in our fourth generation of family ownership, so we know just what it takes to do business at the speed of New York. We welcome you to read some of our customers’ reviews to find out more about what to expect from Thomas Group Printing, or contact us online anytime with questions.
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