Perfect Bound Books, Booklets & Brochure Printing

Perfect bound booklets are ideal for brochures, magazines or any other document where you want to guarantee an expensive look and feel from your printing and binding. We print perfect bound booklets on quality 150gsm silk paper with a premium 350gsm silk cover. What's more, your choice of matt or gloss cover lamination is included as standard.

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A6 Perfect Bound Brochures & Booklets

A6 Perfect Bound Brochures & Booklets

  • Three stunning paper options
  • Print up to 120 pages
  • They make ideal prospectuses or event handouts
From £101.73
A5 Perfect Bound Brochures & Booklets

A5 Perfect Bound Brochures & Booklets

  • Choose from three weights of paper
  • Thick 350gsm silk cover encases your booklet
  • Delivered within five working days
From £111.24
A4 Perfect Bound Brochures & Booklets

A4 Perfect Bound Brochures & Booklets

  • Customise with different paper types and finishes
  • Our largest size
  • A high-quality booklet printing option
From £129.51
148mm Square Perfect Bound Brochures & Booklets

148mm Square Perfect Bound Brochures & Booklets

  • Measuring 148mm x 148mm
  • Choose from three inner page thicknesses
  • Add a matt, gloss or velvet lamination
From £112.31
210mm Square Perfect Bound Brochures & Booklets

210mm Square Perfect Bound Brochures & Booklets

  • Measuring 210mm x 210mm
  • Three different paper types to choose from
  • Delivered within five working days
From £127.10
DL Perfect Bound Brochures & Booklets

DL Perfect Bound Brochures & Booklets

  • Three inside paper options
  • Ideal size for popping in the post
  • Our smallest print booklet option
From £104.62

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Sustainably Sourced

Promote your business sustainably with our print options! Whatever impact you would like to make, we’ve got an option for every occasion and every business. We have the perfect size and paper stock to suit every occasion - no matter the budget you’re working with, so you’re sure to find what you’re looking for.

We only use paper stocks from FSC© certified suppliers
The FSC (Forest Stewardship Council™) are an international organisation dedicated to improving responsible management of the world's forests.
We use the greenest paper options available
We use FSC Mix and FSC Recycled for all of our prints, which are the most sustainable options.
We're Carbon Neutral
We earned our Carbon Neutral certificate in 2021, meaning we reduced our carbon emission as much as possible, then invested in offsets to balance out any leftover emissions.

We're ISO 14001:2015 Certified

We work towards a set of environmental management standards where an external auditor measures our impact on the environment. We then create a plan of action on how to keep reducing the impact every year!

War on Waste Campaign

Our internal War on Waste campaign has been running since 2018, and has seen us change processes to reduce our waste output. We eliminated 100% of waste in our Inkjet stream and are working every day to go further!

Recyclable Packaging
Responsible Waste Management
Plastic Reduction Strategy
10 Point Artwork Check
Carbon Neutral Manufacturing

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“Discovering instantprint has been transformational for my business. In the space of two years, it has allowed me to grow a publishing arm, that includes fives children’s books, and a series of guides for my main business.”

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Perfect Bound Booklet Artwork Guide

Perfect bound booklets are often hailed as the premium booklet binding option, so ensuring your design matches the premium quality of your book is essential. Here are our step-by-step instructions on setting up your artwork for a perfect print job.
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How to Create an Impressive University Prospectus

Perfect bound booklets make idea prospectuses. In this guide, we’ll talk you through exactly how to create an impressive college or university prospectus that’ll show prospective students why you should be their top choice.
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5 Big Impact Booklet Layout Design Tips

Layout plays a key role in multi-page documents like perfect bound booklets. Not only do they make each page flow and look great aesthetically, but including hierarchy also makes it easier for readers to understand the content. Here are our top tips.
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Frequently Asked Questions

What is a Perfect Bound Booklet?

Perfect bound booklets are often known as glued because the pages are glued down to the cover at spine. Once the glue has dried, the remaining three sides are trimmed down to size, giving them ‘perfect’ edges. It’s one of the sturdiest booklet binding methods and is known for giving a professional, premium finish, meaning they’re often used for corporate reports, manuals and catalogues.

Paperback books are a common example of perfect bound booklets. Just like them, you’ll be able to choose a thicker paper stock as the cover with a soft-touch or glossy lamination.

A popular book binding glue is PUR, however we use one called EVA because it dries a lot faster, meaning we can produce them a lot more quickly.

To make sure there are enough pages to glue to the spine, the minimum number of printed pages we offer is 40pp.

How to Make a Perfect Bound Booklet

To make your own perfect bound brochure or booklet design, it’s important to think about the spine. No matter your experience or preferred design programme, we’ve created step-by-step instructions to make creating your own perfect bound book design from scratch, including how to set up your pages to include bleed.

Depending on your budget and what you want to use it for, we offer a huge range of paper types for perfect bound brochure printing. You can even add a matt or gloss coated paper to your cover page for a special touch. Matt lamination is a smooth, no-shine finish, whereas gloss gives your paper a high-shine look.

How Are Perfect Bound Booklets Made?

If you’re looking for high quality perfect bound booklet printing right here in the UK, you’ve come to the right place! We print all of our glued booklets using our high-speed ink jet printers (Truepress Jet 520HD) for the inside pages and either our iGen press or Heidelberg for book covers.

We then use a high strength, quick-drying glue called EVA glue to bind these pages and the cover together – also known as perfect binding. Depending on how many pages you supply, your book can have a designable spine. Because of their flat finish, this type of booklet is perfect for stacking as they easily fit together and look effective when set out this way.

Top 4 Most Common Uses for Perfect Bound Booklets

Perfect bound booklets are the best way to show customers you mean big business. If you’re not sure how to best use them for your marketing or what some more creative ideas to spice up your next came here, here are our favourite perfect bound booklet uses.

1) Product Catalogues

We love using perfect bound booklets as product catalogues! Because of their premium look and feel, they help give the products you’re selling an extra edge too. Go square with our 210mm perfect bound booklets or keep it classic with an A5 size.

2) Annual or Quarterly Magazines

If you don’t send out magazines frequently, you can afford to print high quality perfect bound ones. We know your customers will love to keep your branded magazine on their coffee table! A4 is a great size for your new swanky mag.

3) Employee Handbooks

Perfect bound booklets are sturdy and great for long-life usage. That’s why they’re great for employee handbooks or even brand guidelines. A small square perfect bound booklet is the ideal size for your new handbooks!

4) Prospectuses

Print your own prospectus for your college or university with instantprint and you’re sure to impress. With up to 120 pages to design, there’s plenty of room to shout about your courses and facilities. Go for an A5 perfect bound booklet for a student fair handout, or A4 if you’ve got a lot to say.

Our Top Perfect Bound Booklet Design Tips from Our Studio Team

Here are a few top tips and things to keep in mind when designing your own perfect bound booklets:

1) Setting Up Your Pages

Please set your perfect bound booklet artwork pages up as single pages in the same document, rather than spreads (two pages together). If you’re struggling with this, feel free to ask our Personal Artworker team how to do this by emailing pa@instantprint.co.uk.

2) Adding Bleed

We recommend adding 3mm bleed area as standard to your perfect bound booklet pages. Read our bleed guide for help with this and a short description of why you need to add bleed area when printing.

3) Keeping Text Safe

As well as a standard 3mm bleed area, we’d also recommend having a 6mm safety zone on the binding edge of your booklet pages and 3mm safety zone on the remaining three edges. This is because there will be a small area of your design that isn’t quite visible once printed due to how it’s glued. Make sure you keep important text away from the binding edge to avoid it being hidden in the fold line.

4) How to Upload Your Artwork

Because of how large perfect bound booklet files are, please use WeTransfer to send us your artwork.

To do this, place a blank order (order your booklets without any artwork) and we’ll send you an email with your web order number. Go to WeTransfer and send your artwork to us at artwork@instantprint.co.uk , using the web order number as your subject line. We’ll then triple check that your artwork is set up correctly before sending a proof for you to approve before we send it to print.