Yearbook Printing

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 0.3” 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.

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.

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.

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.