Top-Quality Yearbook Printing

Yearbook Printing with Thomas Group Printing

Thomas Group Printing prints yearbooks as hard cover or soft cover and can accommodate the quantities and pages you need to emphasize the year’s memories. Our custom yearbook printing is cost-efficient, fast, and on-demand. On-demand printing allows you to choose a quantity for an initial print run, and to run additional yearbooks later if needed. We have low minimum quantities for yearbooks and can handle print runs into the thousands so you can print yearbooks specific to small clubs, community organizations, or teams, or for your entire school. Prize your school’s favorite moments of the past year and recognize your students with our custom yearbooks that offer outstanding quality with fast turnaround times.

Yearbook Cover and Binding Options

Thomas Group Printing offers a variety of cover and binding options for yearbooks. Soft cover yearbooks are best if you have up to 150 pages. You have various design and print options due to the smaller quantity of pages. You can choose varied sizes so you can make smaller or more square yearbooks if that fits your community organization or school better.

Hardcover yearbooks are best for larger yearbooks with more pages. You can add artwork or the school’s name to the spine to really create a book that lasts for your school or organization. Hardcovers are made from a board and can be up to .3” thick, and weigh as much as 160 pt. All the pages are cut, folded, and glued into the book and then attached to the cover with adhesive. This enduring material will help you achieve the look and feel of a professional yearbook that makes an impact on your students, members, and staff.

We offer different binding options such as saddle-stitch or perfect binding to ensure your yearbook stands the test of time.

Saddle Stitched Binding for Yearbooks

Saddle-stitching is cost-effective and best for lower page counts. In fact, if your yearbook is under 32 pages, it’s the only option most printers will be able to provide for binding due to the nature of how pages attach to the spine of the book. Each page is folded in half and nested so that once the pages are ready for binding, they can be stapled together through the fold of the yearbook. You are limited to between a few pages, and up to 64 pages for saddle-stitched yearbooks.

Perfect Binding for Yearbooks

Perfect binding is the most popular binding type for yearbooks. It’s a binding style that’s most similar to a book or high-end magazine with a spine in which pages are bound together using an adhesive to create a spine. The pages will line up perfectly and can lay flat. Due to the nature of the binding process, only yearbooks over 32 pages plus cover can use perfect binding.

Design Specifications and Finishing Options for Yearbooks

If you’d like color and images to extend all the way to the edge of the cover and inside pages for a professional look, your yearbook will need to use 0.125” bleed, including for the spine of the book. You can read more about how to properly set bleed in your file in this blog post. Additionally, Thomas Group Printing provides free starter files for printing yearbooks or any other style of book. Each of our starter files comes to set up with pre-set bleed and other important document settings to help you avoid common print design errors. We offer starter files for books in InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Canva.

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Depending on the cover type you use we also offer a wide variety of finishing options if you’d like to achieve a high-end or unique look for your yearbook. These include:

• Foil printing: Foil printing is a versatile finishing technique that gives projects a lustrous surface finish. Foil printing involves applying either metallic or colored foil to the surface of a printed project in order to enhance the overall appearance and add a creative, high-end element to printed projects.
• Embossing/Debossing: Embossing creates raised designs, or lettering, on various kinds of paper stocks, for a stylish, tasteful design element. It adds texture and depth to a product and looks and feels even better on heavier papers, where the contrast is greater.

Fast Turnarounds and Excellent Customer Service

At Thomas Group Printing, we will collaborate with you to meet your deadlines for the end of the year. You can wait to finalize your yearbook until closer to the end of the year due to our fast turnaround times. By relying on our expert team, you can ensure that your photos are featured excellently and that you can amend any headlines, copy, names, or dates. Thomas Group Printing has the experience for fine, professional printing, and the ability to communicate with customers new to the printing process. We will guide you through your yearbook printing project to make sure that you create a timeless book that captures all the memories you want to share from the preceding year.

To get started on a project, we will need your binding, size, quantity of yearbooks, the number of pages, and paper type preference in addition to your print-ready file to begin processing your yearbook printing project. We offer a number of options for instant pricing and online ordering above, but we can print anything you can imagine and are available to provide a fast, hassle-free quote for your project if you contact us with the specifications you need.

You will have the opportunity to proof and review your yearbook prior to the print run, during the pre-flight process. Our team is dedicated to confirming that your yearbook looks and feels as you imagined prior to printing and shipping to your students, members, and staff.

Messenger Delivery In New York City. We Ship Nationwide.

We provide messenger delivery to the five boroughs, but we also offer fast shipping options to anywhere in the US. Thomas Group Printing can print any quantity of yearbooks for your school, and ship directly to students and staff.

To get a fast, hassle-free quote on your yearbook printing project, just click here to get in touch to provide some details about your needs.