A4 Booklets

Standard uses 80gsm paper and prints with a small white border around each page, so there's no bleed to worry about. Premium uses 120gsm gloss paper and prints right to the edge. The booklet is trimmed after stapling, so Premium pages need 5mm of bleed all the way around. Both are full colour on every page, folded and stapled twice on the spine.

Only for Premium. Make each page 220 × 307 mm, which is A4 plus 5mm on every side, and stretch backgrounds and pictures right to the edge so no white shows after trimming. Keep text at least 5mm inside the trim. We use 5mm rather than 3mm because stapled booklets are trimmed after folding, and the inside pages can sit slightly further out than the cover. Standard pages print with a white border, so set them up at 210 × 297 mm with no bleed.

Each sheet of paper is printed on both sides and folded in half, which makes 4 pages. So your booklet can be 8, 12, 16 pages and so on, up to 48 for Standard or 40 for Premium. Premium gloss paper is thicker, so it stops at 40 pages to fold and staple neatly. Count every page, including the front and back cover. If your file isn't a multiple of 4, we add blank pages at the back, so you may like to add a notes page or an extra picture instead.

Yes. Pages include the cover, so a 16 page booklet is the front cover, 14 inside pages and the back cover. With a heavy cover, the inside front and inside back covers are pages too, and they're printed, so leave them blank in your PDF if you don't want anything there.

Please send single pages in reading order, with the front cover first and the back cover last. Don't arrange the pages for printing yourself. We do that, so page 1 and your last page end up on the same sheet in the right place.

You can, but the fold and staples sit right in the middle, so keep text, faces and anything important away from it. Set it up as two single pages, with each half of the picture on its own page. Don't run words across the fold, as they can be lost in the spine.

A single PDF, up to 20MB, with all your pages in order. Use 300 dpi images and CMYK colour, embed your fonts, and leave off any crop or trim marks.

Yes. Choose “Check my file” in step 3 for $20 and we'll check your page size, margins, bleed and image resolution before printing, and contact you if anything needs fixing. We don't check spelling, wording or page order, so please check those carefully. If you choose “Print as supplied”, your booklets are printed exactly as supplied, and a reprint caused by something in the file is charged.

Choose your number of copies in step 2 and your total is shown in step 3. Need more pages, a large run or a different size? Contact us for a quote, or see our A5 booklets and spiral bound booklets.

All orders are printed, folded, stapled and sent from our shop in Tumby Bay with Australia Post, Australia wide. Orders placed on weekends and public holidays are processed on the next working day. We don't offer weekend or next-day delivery.

If your booklets arrive damaged, we made a mistake, or you received the wrong item, we'll reprint, replace or refund them. We can't offer refunds for a change of mind, mistakes in the file you supplied such as typos, page order or missing bleed, or options chosen incorrectly at checkout. Please contact us and we'll sort it out.