Book design & printing
We set the text, design the cover, print and bind. Send a Word file or a PDF, and collect finished copies at the size and quantity you choose.
Services
Some authors arrive with a finished manuscript and need everything after it. Some arrive with a print-ready PDF and need only paper. Some need nothing but a cover designed. All three are ordinary jobs here.
01 — Design
We set the text and lay out every page to the size the book needs, then hand you a proof to check before anything reaches the press.
02 — Print
If your file is already print-ready, we print and bind it — you choose the paper, the binding and the colour, and the boxed copies come to the address on the order.
03 — Cover
If the manuscript has no cover yet, we design one — front, back and spine at the spine width your page count produces. It is the cheapest part of the job, so it is priced separately and kept low.
Manuscript confidentiality
A manuscript is unpublished work, and we treat it that way. Files arrive, are set and printed, and the working copy is deleted when the job is done. There is no archive to leak from, because there is no archive.
01 — No archive
We do not store manuscripts, PDFs or artwork after delivery. The invoice stays; the book's source files do not. A later reprint means sending the file again, and that is a price we are willing to pay.
02 — Need to know
The people who set your book and the press that prints it. Nobody else inside the studio reads a manuscript in progress, and nothing is shown as a sample — not in the portfolio, not on this site — without your written permission.
03 — On the record
If a copy of your manuscript were ever disclosed through a mistake of ours, we are liable to compensate you for it. That is not a slogan: it is written into our terms.
It is also why we ask for a Google Drive or WeTransfer link instead of an email attachment, and why we delete the link when the job closes.
How it works
01
Send the manuscript as a Word file or PDF, with any cover art and a reference book whose look you like.
02
We price design, print or both in writing. The figure is fixed for thirty days and covers exactly what the quote lists.
03
Typesetting, cover and page layout at the agreed trim size, with one round of revisions built into the quote.
04
You check a proof before the press runs. Corrections after you approve it are charged separately.
05
Paper, printing and binding in the quantity ordered, with the first copies checked off the press.
06
Books are boxed and couriered to the address on the order, with the balance settled before they leave.
Samples
Covers from finished jobs. Each one opens onto a sample PDF with the interior pages at their printed size.
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Page size, binding, colour and quantity decide the price. Large files can arrive as a Drive or WeTransfer link instead of an upload.
