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What is Perfect Binding?

Perfect bound books are softcover books with a clean, square spine. Learn what perfect binding is, sizes, paper options, and how to order

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Straight edges…  Elegance…  Professional final product…   Those are just a couple superlatives to describe perfect bound books. When looking at a perfect bound book, your eyes immediately go to the sharp edges and notable design
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How to Choose the Right Types of Booklet Binding

Discover the different types of booklet binding and choose the best option for your project. Learn about saddle stitch, perfect, spiral binding, & more.

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The company’s semi-annual all-hands meeting is next month, and you’re in charge of compiling the internal updates booklet for everyone. Full of policy changes and employee must-knows, you need to create something that has it all in one place. Sounds like
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saddle stitch vs perfect bound
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Perfect Bound vs. Saddle Stitch Books

What binding is best for your next book printing project? Saddle stitch binding is our most popular but perfect binding is another top choice!

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Starting your first quote in the pricing tool? You might be thinking, “Which binding is best for me?” and you aren’t alone! Deciding which binding is right for your project is something we help creatives with daily. A few things factor into
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Booklets Books Design

How to Design a Booklet

Discover essential tips for booklet design, from ideation to printing. Learn how to design a booklet right with experts at PrintingCenterUSA.

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Thinking about printing a full-color customizable booklet? You have probably heard the word a few times if you’re in the corporate world. Booklets can be so many things, that’s the beauty of them. Booklets are one of the most versatile and best print
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Books Design Print Basics Self Publishing

How to Design a Book

Learn how to design a book step by step. Size, binding, margins, typography, and exporting print-ready files for professional results.

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When you design a book, it is one of those things that feels overwhelming until you get started and break each section into steps. Maybe you are working on a cookbook, a memoir, a children’s book, a business manual, or a photo collection, but no matter
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Case Study Children's Books Success Series

5 Steps to Creating a Children’s Book Fundraiser: How a Florida Rotary Club Did It

See how Lucas turned the annual fundraiser into a pro printed children's book that reaches every first grader in their school district.

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Some of the best ideas start as a joke. Lucas Talada laughed the first time someone suggested he write a children’s book about his Rotary Club’s armadillo races but then he sat down one evening, and the story just came to him. He read it to the
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Bookbinding Books

Book Binding Types and How to Choose the Right One

Book binding has never been so personal — five types, five personalities. Find the one that hits the right note for your print project.

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There are five main different types of book binding, saddle-stitch, perfect bound, hardcover, spiral bound, and wire-o. Just like music genres create different moods, different book binding styles create completely different experiences for your readers. The
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THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO SPIRAL BOUND BOOKS

Spiral bound books and when to use them, how they compare to other binding types, design tips, paper options, & sizing.

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If you have ever cooked from a cookbook that kept flopping shut, or tried to reference a training manual while your hands were full, you already understand the problem spiral binding solves. It stays open. It lays flat. It gets out of your way and lets you
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Books Catalogs Lookbook

What is the Difference Between Lookbooks and Fashion Catalogs?

Explore the key differences between fashion catalogs and lookbooks to decide which platform is best for effectively showcasing your fashion line.

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When building a brand, how you present the products sets the tone more than people realize. Lookbooks and fashion catalogs tend to get used interchangeably. They are not the same thing. One is designed to inspire through well-thought out looks and scenery,
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Books Design Self Publishing

Book Covers Worth Swiping Right On: 4 Book Cover Design Tips

Book Covers are your first impression. Discover 4 expert tips to help your book cover stop the scroll and win more readers.

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We all grew up hearing “don’t judge a book by its cover,” but the publishing world said, “Yeah… so anyway,” and well, here we are. The book industry is booming right now and with more books hitting the shelves than ever before, book covers have
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