For a menu that reads like a book, there’s no better option than stapled menu printing. These restaurant menu books are perfect for extensive food and drinks menus, where one sheet of paper isn’t enough.

You can choose to keep your cover the same thickness as the inside pages (AKA self cover) or choose a thicker stock to give your print that hardback menu cover feel. Add lamination to your cover for extra protection from splashes!

We use a saddle stitch binding technique to bind your pages together, which involves stitching a metal staple up the centre, to keep your pages nice and secure.

Here are all our finished stapled menu sizes:

• A6: 105mm x 148mm (or, 210mm x 148mm when flat)
• A5: 148mm x 210mm (or, 296mm x 210mm when flat)
• A4: 210mm x 297mm (or, 420mm x 297mm when flat)
• 148mm Square: 148mm x 148mm (or, 296mm x 148mm when flat)
• 210mm Square: 210mm x 210mm (or, 420mm x 210mm when flat)
• DL: 99mm x 210mm (or, 198mm x 210mm when flat)

Please add 3mm bleed to each side of your canvas, or check out our stapled booklet guide for step-by-step instructions for getting set up!

 

Designing Yourself 
When ordering from instantprint you can be confident your artwork is in safe hands. Regardless of how you produce your design every order is checked by our in-house studio team to ensure that the file is print-ready.

If your design is complete our online proofing tool is available after you click ‘add to basket’ and it will check your artwork and apply fixes for common issues if needed. 

If you are unsure, our Personal Artworkers can check over your artwork for free before you place an order. They can also help you set up your artwork if you want to add Spot UV or Foiling.

You can also access our free design online templates which are available as an option after you click ‘add to basket’. 

Want to learn more?

If you’d like to learn more about the technical side of print-ready artwork we have a series of guides for you to read covering subjects as bleed, colour and resolution.

 

*Lamination is applied to the outside of the cover.

Standard Turnaround

If you approve your order by 6:30pm, we’ll dispatch it for delivery within two working days. Delivery then takes a further working day. For example, if you approved your order by 6:30pm on a Monday, we’d dispatch your order on Wednesday and it’d be delivered on Thursday.

If your delivery address is in one of the postcodes highlighted on our delivery information page as an extended area, delivery will take a further working day.

Delivery Price

Our standard delivery cost is £4.99, which is DPD tracked delivery. You can also upgrade to DPD pre-noon delivery for £9.99. Standard delivery is free on orders over £75 

For more information, please see our delivery information page.

What paper type should I choose?

150gsm silk is our thickest option and is a classic paper type for menu booklets that makes it easy for customers to turn the page. 115gsm silk is a thinner option with a similar thickness to office printer paper but with a slight sheen thanks to the silk coating. If you’d prefer your menu without a silk coating, go for our uncoated option, which has a rougher porous texture like notebook paper. 130gsm gloss is a high-shine finish that’s often used for catalogues to make colours pop.

What cover type should I choose?

For your cover, choose from three thicker stocks to protect the inside pages. 250gsm is our standard option. Go for 350gsm for a heavier cover, or writable if you want the cover to be filled in.

What does ‘pp’ mean?

When we say ‘pp’, for example a 40pp booklet, this is short for ‘printed pages’. When you design booklet menu artwork for print, you’ll have to create a design for both sides of every piece of paper. A printed page is one side of the piece of paper. So, a 40pp booklet will only actually have 20 physical pieces of paper in it. Your front and back cover are included as part of this.

How will my menus be printed?

We print stapled menu book inside pages on our Truepress. The covers are printed separately on our iGen press or lithographically using our Heidelberg. They’re then stitched together by our StitchLiner.

How do I upload my menu design?

You should upload your menu artwork after placing your order. To do this, complete your order and then email your artwork to our Studio team at artwork@instantprint.co.uk who’ll then set it up for print for you.