Whether you are printing a hardcover novel, cookbook, yearbook, children’s book, or any other book genre, you can now turn your dream of getting published into a bookstore quality hardback edition.
With 786 Print Media, you can choose different paper stocks, and you can mix your interior pages with black and white printing and full color printed pages. We also offer short run hard cover book printing, our minimum quantity is 24 books. Feel free to review our hardback book printing prices, by using our Instant Quote Calculator.
At 786 Print Media we believe we are the best hardback printer online. We take great pride manufacturing self-publishers books for them. We do extensive quality checks throughout the printing process to make sure we exceed our customer’s expectations.
We make hardcover book printing easy and affordable. See the many advantages of printing with 786 Print Media.
We believe in helping authors make their publishing dreams come true, and do our very best to help them along their journey of publishing their life’s work.
Hardcover bound books are first perfect bound with a blank end sheet, and then trimmed to the final trim size. The outside cover of the book is glued to .088" thick book board and are wrapped in cloth, leather, or a printed sheet (typically called case wrapping). 786 Print Media offers case wrapped hardbound book binding, we do not offer cloth or leather wrapping.
Dust Jackets are detachable outer cover, made of paper & printed on for a custom look. The Dust Jacket has folded flaps that hold it to the front & back covers. 786 Print Media does not currently offer Dust Jackets.
Foil stamping (which is also known as hot stamping) is the process by which the book title and author name are stamped onto the book in gold or silver foil. Foil stamping is most typically found on cloth or leather-bound books or books with dust jackets. Because this process uses a steel die that hot stamps the foil onto the front cover, it can be quite expensive, costing anywhere between $500 and $1,500. 786 Print Media does not currently offer foil stamping.
Embossing is when you use a steel die to put an impression into paper to give a raised letters or design. It is mostly used on dust jackets to give the book cover a high end finish feel and look. Embossing can be quite expensive, as the embossing dies can cost anywhere from $300 to $2000 depending on how intricate the embossing is. 786 Print Media does not offer embossing.
Smyth Sewn books actually are sewn together on an industrial sewing machine to help hold the pages together. The sewing is applied once the pages are folded into signatures and collated together. This adds another step to the hardcover binding process, and can only be done if the book is printed in signatures. At 786 Print Media, we print only flat sheets on our digital printing presses, so we are unable to do smyth sewn books.
An end sheet (also called an end leaf) is used as the false cover of hard bound books. These end sheets are glued to the interior book pages and then glued to the inside of the outer casing of the book. The end sheets are a thicker paper that secures the book block (text pages) to the outside cover casing with glue. End sheets are either white or natural and contain no printing on them.
Endbands are multicolored ribbons on the top & bottom of the book spine. Endbands are used for decoration only & serve no additional functions to the book. Endbands are typically used for Reference books, and some religious book.
Our minimum order is 24 books.
Yes, you can order a hard copy proof for $80.00 when you place your order.
Our production time for hardcover is 10 business days + shipping time.
The minimum page count depends on the paper used for the interior pages of your book:
786 Print Media produces a Case Wrapped hardcover book. The casewrap is printed on 100# gloss text in full color and then we apply either a gloss or matte lamination to protect the cover.
786 Print Media offers these standard sizes hardcover binding:
Yes, but you must place a separate order for each binding style. We cannot do both binding types on the same order, because the binding process is quite different and requires different equipment and set-up times.
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