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PrintingCenterUSA offers wholesale printing services at great low prices. We offer great deals, support, and assistance to resellers of short-run digital printing and bulk color offset printing booklets, books, brochures, calendars, cards, and more online printing services nationwide.

You’ll find our G7 color printing expertise to be a perfect match for your business. Our knowledgeable staff helps make the printing process painless and easy. We guarantee that you will develop a great relationship with your customer service representative, who is there to make sure that you get the best price, quality, and that your products are delivered on time. We offer blind drop shipment options, mailing services, and discount pricing for our wholesale clients.

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We offer the best quality online book, booklet, calendar, brochure, flyer, poster, photo book printing. Printed in vibrant full color on premium gloss or matte paper. Our bulk offset (500 to 20,000) printers will save you money due to our investment in the latest state of the art printing technology and equipment.

Use our FREE downloadable templates or FREE online design tools to make sure that you get all the file requirements and specs correct the first time.

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Our 4 types of book binding services include saddle stitched, perfect bound, spiral bound, and wire-o. We accept your print-ready PDF files or offer our easy to use online photo book design tool, templates, & layouts.

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Our 4 types of book binding services include saddle stitched, perfect bound, spiral bound, and wire-o. We accept your print-ready PDF files or offer our easy-to-use online photo book design tool, templates, & layouts.

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Saddle Stitch Printing

Saddle stitched books are, simply put, folded, and stapled together. Saddle stitch is basically single sheets of paper, printed on both sides, collated in page number order, folded in half, then stapled through the fold with staples made of thin wire securing the sheets together and then trim the 3 sides to the desired, finished size. Because of the way a booklet is produced, you can’t have a random number of pages. It has to be a multiple of 4. Products can be saddle stitched along the left edge or top edge, depending on how the project is planned out. Softcover and self-cover are available. Does not have a flat or square spine. They can lay flat and stay open when you are flipping through the pages, which makes it easier to read. This is most commonly used for picture books, portfolio books, and coloring books.

Page Count

With the saddle stitch method, the pages of the booklet are printed on large sheets of paper and then folded in half, which is why you must have a page count that is evenly divisible by 4. Each sheet of paper will contain 4 of the booklet’s pages.

For example, if you are printing an 8.5” x 11” saddle stitch book, it’s pages and cover would be made from 11” x 17” sheets that are folded in half to the size of 8.5” x 11.”

We can print saddle stitch orders that are 8 - 96 pages. In other words, your document (counting the front and back cover) should be one of the following page counts:
8 | 12 | 16 | 20 | 24 | 28 | 32 | 36 40 | 44 | 48 | 52 | 56 | 60 | 64 | 68 | 72 | 76 | 80 | 84 | 88 | 92

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Creep

When saddle stitching, there is a term called “page creep,” which refers to the inner-most pages being pushed out further than the pages closer to the outside of the booklet. This is most noticeable when there is a large number of pages or thicker paper. Generally, booklets under 40 pages total will not require adjustments for creep.

Diagram A below shows how the pages stick out (creep) from the book and Diagram B shows how the pages are trimmed after being stitched. PrintingCenterUSA makes every effort to adjust for creep when necessary.

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Perfect Bound Printing

Perfect binding booklet printing is single sheets (text weight) paper printed on both sides and collated in page number order, one on top of the other, and gathered into a book block. The spine edge is ground off. The softcover (a thicker cardstock) is placed over and around the book block (interior pages) and attached by the application of a strong yet flexible PUR glue along the binding edge, creating a professional looking square spine that can be printed on. The other three sides of the book are then trimmed to the desired finished size to give them that clean “perfect” edge, thus the name “perfect” bound. An open perfect bound book does not lay flat like a saddle stitch, wire-o or spiral bound book.

Number of Pages Accepted

The minimum number of pages is 28 pages to 2” thick maximum. 2 page increments are required when ordering.

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Perfect Bound Design Tips

• Gutters: because perfect bound books cannot lay completely flat without breaking, there is a portion of each inside page that will lose visibility into the spine. This inside gutter can take up between ¼” and 3/8” of each page. Be mindful of this while designing and add an extra ½” cushion to the binding-side margins of each page of your perfect bound book.

• Crossovers, or images that span two adjacent pages, inside of perfect bound books are not recommended.

• Spine Width: A unique feature of perfect bound books is the ability to design the spine if it is larger than 1/8th inch (2" thick maximum). You can keep it a solid color, add text or have one continuous image covering the front cover across to the back cover. Determining your spine width depends on your number of pages and the paper stock you have selected. click here to download our spine calculator.

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Spiral Bound Printing

Spiral bound printing is single sheets of paper printed on both sides, cut down to trim size and collated in page number order. Then a continuous plastic coil loop shaped like a long spring passes through a row of punched holes at the edge of the printed piece the binding can be on the left or top of the project depending on how the project is designed. Spiral Bound Books are easier to handle and will lie flat (180 degrees) for easy reading reference materials. Pages turn easily, lack spinal tension, and can fold or wrap back around themselves (360 degree).
Spiral bound book printing offers different coil colors, sizes, and diameters that are readily available and can accommodate a higher page count up to 2 3/4” thick. You cannot print on the spine or add or remove pages. Crossovers, or images that span two adjacent pages, inside of perfect bound books are not recommended.

Number of Pages Accepted

We can print spiral and wire-o orders that have 8 pages - 800 pages (or up to 2 ¾” inches thick) and we require them be in 2-page increments.

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Design Tips

1. You must leave extra space for the hole drilling on the binding-side of your Spiral or Wire-O booklet. Set your binding-side margins to be 3/8”. Refer to our free downloadable templates for a design guide.
2. While bleeding images are fully acceptable, PrintingCenterUSA does not recommend crossover images due to the substantial gap between pages.

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Wire-O Bound Printing

Wire-O Bound Printing is single sheets of paper printed on both sides, cut down to trim size and collated in page number order. The wire, often referred to as a wire comb or twin-loop / double-loop binding, has pre-formed pairs of two small loops of wire that run along a C-shaped spine that looks like a comb. These wire loops are inserted through each of the square holes that have been punched through the edge of the printed book’s cover and pages which allow the pages of your book to line up precisely. A wire closer squeezes the spine until it is round securing the cover and pages. the binding can be on the left or top of the project depending on how the project is designed. Wire-o binding will generally have a lower page count than spiral up to 1 ¼ “thick. The wire is available in different lengths for your bound books and calendars. The color of the standard wire we offer is black. You cannot print on the spine, add or remove pages. Crossovers, or images that span two adjacent pages are not recommended.

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Number of Pages Accepted

We can print spiral and wire-o orders that have 8 pages - 800 pages (or up to 1 ¼ inches thick) and we require them be in 2-page increments.

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Softcover

A SOFTCOVER BOOK is like a paperback novel, catalog, or magazine. The soft covers are printed on a more durable heavier weight cover cardstock paper to give your book a little more thickness and heft. We recommend 80# or 100# gloss or matte cover cardstock for the cover and 80# or 100# gloss or matte text for the inside pages. 70# gloss text is available when weight becomes an issue, for example, when mailing your books.

We offer 4 types of softcover binding: Perfect bound and saddle-stitched are our most popular binding types. We also offer softcover Spiral bound and Wire-o binding.
Softcover books offer the BEST VALUE.
The cover can be coated with Soft Touch Lamination to create a matte, velvety smooth, finish.
They are more popular, affordable, and offer a quicker turnaround time compared to hardcover books.
A hardcover book has a cover made from thick, rigid paperboard (like an elementary school textbook). We do not offer hardcover books.

Self-Cover

SELF-COVER BOOKS have the same paper weight for the front and back cover and the inside pages. 100# Text (Gloss or Matte) is recommended. We only offer self-cover for Saddle Stitched Books.

Easier to fold into a self-mailer or put into an envelope
Does not require the durability and longevity of a heavier cover
More easily damaged when mailed.
80# or 70# gloss text are also available when weight becomes an issue, for example, mailing.

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