Saddle stitch and stapled booklet and book printing offers the quickest turnaround time and is the most popular, inexpensive to make, yet professional form of binding. This allows us to print and deliver your medical, travel, retail, or architecture booklet as fast as 3-4 days from proof approval. We accept your print-ready PDF files or offer our easy to use photo booklet maker. Satisfaction Guarantee!
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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Booklet Resources:
Booklet Printing White Paper Guide New to Booklet Design? Here's How to Do it Right! Online Printing Services PDF File Checklist Saddle-Stitch Printing Explained Booklet Shapes, Sizes and Styles MailingPeople Have Also Purchased:
Saddle-Stitched Booklets Spiral Bound Books Wire-O Bound Books Perfect Bound Books BrochuresSaddle Stitch printing may be used for a variety of purposes, such as self-publishing your own architecture, research, home, auction, fact booklets, and so much more. PrintingCenterUSA produces high-quality saddle stitch bound books with an expert, paperback appearance.
Most Popular Booklet Types
Use some of the most popular types listed below to help you get started with your next project!
Conference Booklet
Organize and display your speakers or provide a map of the conference hall.
Informational Booklet
Provide an informational booklet for your customers to educate them about processes.
Portfolio Booklet
Show your work with a portfolio book! Include work samples, customer reviews, and more!
Program Booklet
Give an overview of your theater production, recital, or dance production with a booklet!
Photo Booklet
Show off your photography skills with a collection of your favorite photos in a photo booklet.
Travel Booklet
Chronical your favorite vacation memories in a travel booklet or use a booklet to advertise trips.
Wedding Invite Booklet
Need a creative way to invite your guests to your wedding? Create a professional wedding invite booklet.
Recipe Booklet
Keep your collection of recipes in a handy recipe booklet, perfect for a gift for relatives.
Saddle Stitch Booklet Ideas & Examples
Let PrintingCenterUSA take your saddle stitch booklet project from concept to finished product! We have worked with and helped a number customers design, mail, and print. Below are ideas, case studies, and examples from real customers to help you get the most out of your next project!
Benefits
Booklets are simple, fast, and easy! They are a great takeaway for customers and are inexpensive overall to make and distribute. Small, square, or standard, we have the perfect size for your health & fitness, medical, dental, or auction booklet! You can distribute them with mailing or in a hotel lobby, airport, medical clinic, or travel agency. The opportunities are endless with saddle stitch.
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
How to arrange pages for saddle stitch printing?
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. We can print saddle stitch orders that are 8 - 92 pages. Click Here to learn more about page count for saddle stitch.
Does saddle stitch lay flat?
Saddle stitch bound books and booklets do lay flat. This makes them a great option for projects such as coloring books, as you don’t need to hold them open the entire time. Depending on how many pages you have in your product, there might be a slight “poof” in the center of the pages, but it will still lay flat.
What is saddle stitch booklet printing?
Saddle stitch booklet printing is when four pages are printed onto one sheet of paper (two on the front, two on the back) and then collated in a way that, when folded and stapled through the midline, the pages appear in sequential order. Click here to learn more.
Can I print crossovers with saddle stitch?
Yes! Saddle stitch binding allows for crossovers to be executed without losing a portion of the image in the binding center, like with perfect bound.
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. 
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. 
