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If you have the budget and are looking for that extra dimension on your printing then welcome to our premium offerings. When it’s time to throw the kitchen sink at your new publication then we offer a range of possibilities which add a touch of luxury.
Whether you are looking for a shiny logo, some raised text, a metallic effect or even part of the design actually cut out from the page, then we have the solution to match your expectations.
For complete transparency from the off: embossing, debossing, foiling and spot UV varnishing all add at least £280* to the total cost. So these are stunning additions to your project but do jump the cost up.
Enjoy our Video Showcase of Premium Cover Options for your Luxury Art Book Printing
*This is subject to seeing the artwork.
Enjoy looking through our showcase of recent projects which included premium finishing add ons.
Take a flip-through of The Signal: Shadow Play, a one-off football magazine we printed with silver foiling on the front and back covers.
The cover is 300gsm silk with matt lamination to the outer face and silver foiling front and back.
Stapled, perfect bound (glued, like a paperback) or hardback? Your page count has already decided — the whole rule in one picture.
Read the full Binding Styles guide →Silk, gloss or uncoated — what each looks and feels like, and the insider hack that saves you money.
Read the full Paper Choices guide →Bleed, page sizes, cover files and the 3 common mistakes — plus we check (or rebuild) your file for FREE.
Read the full Artwork Hub guide →Browse hundreds of real projects we've actually printed — proper inspiration, not a single AI mockup.
Real people who've been printing books since 2006 — friendly, genuinely knowledgeable, and usually replying within minutes.
Design in whatever program you love, save it as a PDF, send it over. Never done it before? A real person checks it for free.
No minimum means you can print a single copy, check the paper and layout in your own hands, then run the full batch with total confidence.
Silk, gloss, uncoated, kraft — we'll post you the real thing so you're never guessing colour and feel off a screen.
Degree hand-in, launch day, a fair this weekend? Tell us your date up front — we'll say straight away if it's doable, then build the whole job around it.
We'll need a second artwork file for the foiling - anything that you would like foiled should be set in 100% black (0/0/0/100 on the cmyk slider). This file should be the same size as the printed cover artwork so that we can overlay the two. Foiling only works with vector artwork so best to produce that in Illustrator for optimum results.
We'll need a second artwork file for the varnishing - anything that you would like varnished should be set in 100% black (0/0/0/100 on the cmyk slider). This file should be the same size as the printed cover artwork so that we can overlay the two. Varnishing works best with vector artwork so best to produce that in Illustrator for optimum results. None of the printed content should be on this file, it should just be a white background with anything to be varnished in 0/0/0/100.
We'll need a second artwork file for the embossing - anything that you would like embossed should be set in 100% black (0/0/0/100 on the cmyk slider). This file should be the same size as the printed cover artwork so that we can overlay the two. Embossing only works with vector artwork so best to produce that in Illustrator for optimum results.
On the artwork file create a Spot colour called ‘White’ (Window>Colour>Swatches) then New Color Swatch from the top right tab in the Swatch menu and set it as 100% Magenta, change the 'Colour Type' to 'Spot' and hit Ok. Anything that will be printed in white should be in this spot colour in front of the actual printed artwork. This must also be set to 'overprint' (in the Window>Output>Attributes menu). This will be picked up when the job is printed and anything in the ‘White’ spot colour will be printed white. (See attached screengrabs for more help)
Yes, a big choice! We buy our foiling materials from https://www.foilco.co.uk/
Do jump on their website to see the ranges that are available and request a swatchcard. Some foils are more resilient and can be applied to book linen for hardback covers, some are beter suited to softback covers and work like leaflets and wedding invites.
This can be achieved using Gloss Spot UV Varnish on a logo or line of text you would like to highlight.
A second option would be to use a metallic foil. You can choose from 100s of colours. Our foil supplier is foilco so do check out their range:
