Rated #1 for best quality zine printing services with cheap prices. Self-publish and print punk, photography, art, or fanzines in vibrant full color on 70#, 80#, 100# premium gloss, matte or uncoated paper. These professional-quality zines are ready to be delivered to your doorstep as fast as 3 to 4 days from proof approval.
A zine, pronounced ZEEN, is a cost effective, self-published, short run magazine. Includes photos, illustrations, comics, short stories, poetry, ideas, etc. The creative possibilities for zine printing online are endless.
We accept your print ready PDF files or offer our easy-to-use online zine maker and free downloadable templates
Binding Types
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File Specifications
Most Popular Paper
Gloss paper has a shiny and lustrous smooth coated gloss finish. Excellent for making full color printing appear more vibrant.
Matte paper is a dull coated sheet that exhibits low gloss finish. Paper has minimal glare, making it easier to read text.
Uncoated paper is easy to write on and should be used in projects such as a workbook or coloring book.
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File Specifications
Our Most Popular Paper Options are
Coating Options
Gloss paper has a shiny and lustrous smooth coated gloss finish. Excellent for making full color printing appear more vibrant.
Matte paper is a dull coated sheet that exhibits low gloss finish. Paper has minimal glare, making it easier to read text.
Uncoated paper is easy to write on and should be used in projects such as a workbook or coloring book.
Learn More
File Specifications
Our Most Popular Paper Options are
Coating Options
Gloss paper has a shiny and lustrous smooth coated gloss finish. Excellent for making full color printing appear more vibrant.
Matte paper is a dull coated sheet that exhibits low gloss finish. Paper has minimal glare, making it easier to read text.
Uncoated paper is easy to write on and should be used in projects such as a workbook or coloring book.
Learn More
File Specifications
Our Most Popular Paper Options are
Coating Options
Gloss paper has a shiny and lustrous smooth coated gloss finish. Excellent for making full color printing appear more vibrant.
Matte paper is a dull coated sheet that exhibits low gloss finish. Paper has minimal glare, making it easier to read text.
Uncoated paper is easy to write on and should be used in projects such as a workbook or coloring book.
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Most Popular Types
The easiest way to get an idea for zine layout design is to look at as many examples as possible! Scroll through some of our popular printed publication types below to get an idea for different industries that benefit from creating a publication.
Fanzine
If you are a huge fan of a performer, group, or type of entertainment, create a Fanzine to share your passion!
Punk Zine
Create a zine about your favorite punk subculture or punk musician. Include some poetry, news, gossip, reviews, and more!
Photography Zine
Use a photography zine to tell a visual story or to inform your customers about a specific topic or issue.
Art Zine
Zines are a wonderful way to publish your own art, poems, ideas, or anything else that comes to your mind.
Graphic Design Zine
Showcase your graphic design work in a more casual format than a portfolio book with a zine!
Zine Ideas & Examples
Zine printing is a unique way to both establish a brand as an industry thought leader and also to promote products and services. By combining informational and promotional content into one zine publication with user-friendly page layouts, entrepreneurs can reach consumers in a fun and engaging way. The most important element of a successful zine is the cover, as it is the first thing potential readers will see and will help determine whether or not they read the publication.
Zine Printing & Mailing Services
Our in-house direct mailing services are easy and affordable for fast zine distribution. Just send us your mailing list and we’ll take it from there. To order printing and mailing services online, just select yes, for mailing in the online quote system and upload your list in the check-out process. All mailing lists are de-duped, CASS and NCOA Certified.
Page Count
We require that any multi-page PDF files be sent as single page images, not spreads. In the files, page 1 should be the front cover and the last page should be the back cover (see left). Learn More
We require that any multi-page PDF files be sent as single page images, not spreads. In the files, page 1 should be the front cover and the last page should be the back cover (see left). Learn More
Color
Save your PDF in CMYK. Learn More
Resolution
PrintingCenterUSA recommends that the resolution of your images and document be 300 dpi or more. Learn More
Bleeds
Bleed is an extra 1/8” of image that extends beyond the trim area of your printed piece. The project is printed on an oversized sheet that is cut down to size with the appearance that the image is “bleeding” off the edge of the paper. Learn More
What is a Zine?
A zine, pronounced ZEEN, is a cost effective, self-published, short run magazine. It can be about anything from mainstream experiences to the occult, sci-fi, music, film, sports or anything you are inspired to express. Include photos, illustrations, comics, short stories, poetry, ideas, etc.
How to Make a Zine?
To make a zine, you can utilize our free downloadable zine templates. We offer blank, predesigned, and mailing templates for InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop. Or try our free online photo zine maker!
What is the Purpose of a Zine?
Zines are a wonderful way to target a more specific audience than a mainstream magazine. You can print a limited editions to create exclusivity. The purpose of zines is expressions and creation and often encapsulates the creative eye or opinion of the editor.
Which software is used for making zines?
We recommend using Adobe InDesign to design and layout your zine for print. Click here for a tutorial on creating a print-ready file in InDesign! If you don’t have the expertise or software to use InDesign, then our online photo zine maker is an easy-to-use alternative.
Saddle stitch binding is the most inexpensive and simple to make, yet professional form of binding, which allows us to save you money. They also offer the fastest turn-around time. Saddle stitched is the most popular and ideal choice for self-cover booklets and calendars with smaller page counts between 8 and 92 pages. 
Perfect bound binding is the most popular type of soft cover binding. Perfect bound books are inexpensive to make and provide a durable, high quality attractive look that can’t be matched. Perfect binding is the ideal choice for publications with higher page counts (28 pages up to 2 inches thick), giving them a professional looking printable square spine. A paperback book or a phone book is a familiar example. 
Hard Cover books are case bound with your choice of covers. Our basic cover is printed in full-color, laminated and glued to a heavy, warp-resistant book board.
Spiral binding uses a durable plastic coil which makes it an ideal option for every-day use as reference material. Spiral Bound Book Printing offers different coil sizes and diameters to accommodate a higher page count up to 2 3/4" thick. There is a fast turn-around time for very short spiral bound book production quantities. Manuals, Handbooks, and Guides are good examples of products well-suited for spiral binding. Available only in black coil. 
Wire-O binding is similar to Spiral binding. Wire-O binding uses a professional-looking looped metal wire which makes it an ideal option when the product is for a more formal setting, such as a presentation. Wire-O binding can accommodate a higher page count up to 1 ¼" thick. They may cost a little more. Available only in black standard wire. 
