So we recommend dividing your dust jacket design into several sections. Your dust jacket will be printed on a single sheet of paper that wraps around the outside of your hardcover book. If you choose to add a dust jacket for your hardcover book, please upload a separate file named ’dustjacket’’ with your dust jacket design as a single spread. You can choose either solid white or black endpapers. Pay attention to the order of your pages, as the locked endpapers may throw off your page sequence. Please note that when you are ordering a hardcover book, the endpaper pages will be locked and you will be unable to add anything to them. Once your artwork is set up correctly, our system will automatically populate the cover area for you to see in the proof.įor the hardcover of your book, we also recommend leaving a “quiet area” or margin of 8mm around the edge.Įndpapers are the inside front and back covers of your hardcover book. Please upload a single cover design file named ‘coverspread’ with your front cover, spine and back cover in a single spread.Ģ0mm bleed + front cover width + 5mm hinge + spine width + 5mm hinge + back cover width + 20mm bleedĪnd don’t forget the 20mm bleed across the top and bottom. We ask for a 20mm bleed area on the top and bottom of the spine and 5mm bleed area ‘hinges’ added either side.ĭo not upload a separate ‘spine’ file. Our online ordering system will calculate the spine depth when you add pages to your order, so you will know how large it is. Please add a 20mm bleed area to the edges of your cover design with the expectation that this will wrap around to the other side of the hardcover. To print the cover for your hardback books, we need a large bleed area so that your cover design wraps around the top of the inside cover area. Rather than four pages making up the cover, like a booklet, a hardcover book has a front cover, spine, and back cover. The cover for a hardback book differs from the covers for our other products. Be sure to increase the quiet area to 8mm on the spine-facing edge of the page.īecause the cover for a perfect bound book has a spine, we need you to either supply a separate ‘spine’ file or to upload a single cover design named ‘coverspread’ with your front cover, spine and back cover in a single spread. Pagesįor the pages of your book, we recommend adding a 3mm bleed to the outside of your page designs and a 5mm quiet area on the inside of the page edges. Please contact our team if your file size is larger and we'll help you get your file into the workflow. You can send us single pages or spreads, or put all the pages of your book into one large, combined file.įor best print reproduction, we recommend creating your artwork in a 300 DPI resolution and in CMYK colour using the GRACoL 2006 colour profile, then uploaded as a PDF. Within the cover page size we recommend a quiet area or safety margin of at least 0.25" around the edge.We accept files in any way that suits you. If you do not upload a print file for your spine it will be left blank. The spine depth is calculated and displayed in the shopping cart. The spine should be supplied as a separate file when uploading single pages. However, we ask for an extra 0.2" to be added to the front and back covers, placed either side of the spine depth in your design. If you are uploading a cover spread, you do not need to supply a separate spine file. The spine will also need a 0.8" bleed at the top and bottom. Please do not include any important content within this area. To make the cover, we need a very large bleed area on the front, back and spine. The cover on hardback books overhangs the inner pages. There is a choice of Endpapers - either solid white or black. This is important as it may throw the page sequence out, putting left and right facing pages in the wrong order. On the order, these places will be locked. The inside front and back cover pages cannot be printed on. The cover for a hardcover book is only two pages - a front cover and a back cover. Most covers are made up of four pages - a front cover, an inside front cover, a back cover, and an inside back cover. When it comes to cover artwork setup, hardcover books are slightly different to our other products. You can upload your files in a way that suits you - as single pages or spreads, individual files for each page, or as a single combined file.
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