Art & Photo Books

Art & photo books are an inexpensive means to compile and publish collections of your favourite artwork, photographs or reproductions. Produced on our digital press, we offer both high resolution and colour accuracy.

Standard Prices

Due to the many options available and variable page totals, each project is priced individually. The following is approximate pricing to use as a benchmark.

28 - page, 8 x 10, 10pt cover quantity: 50  

Price: $5.25 per book.

Our art/photo books are designed on a standard template created in InDesign that features one image per page and includes room for a caption and/or title. It is not necessary to layout the book, just supply your photos and captions in a text file.

These books are intended to feature art work, illustrations and photographs and are printed in 4-colour or hi-resolution grayscale. This makes them applicable for show catalogues, limited editions, personal collections and family photos.

The standard binding is a square-fold stitch (staple) for books of 60-pages or less. Alternatives are Perfect (glue bound, or Spiral or Wire-Coil binding.

Gloss Finish

Pages: 16 – 60

Paper/Finish:  Self-cover, 10, 12 and 14PT. Internal pages 80 – 100LB coated, 28-32 book-weight.

Colour: 4-Colour or Grayscale

Options: Single-sided or double-sided, bleed or no-bleed

Quantities: 25 to 1,000

Finished size available: 4 x 6, 5 x 7, 8 x 10 and custom options.

Finishing: Square-fold stitched

Turnaround: 4-5 Business Days

Accepted File Type: JPG photos and text file

Additional Information

For new books, there is is a one-time setup fee of $50.00. This does not apply on reorders. When there are minor changes on a reorder, this fee will be reduced.

Our minimum order is 25 and can be any number above that.

Typical completion times on orders up to 250 units is 5 days.

File Submission Requirements

Files for inclusion in your book must be submitted to our specific standards. We do not modify photos in any way including colour/contrast adjustments.  The best file type is JPG, the standard for all digital cameras and can be created with any scanner.

  • Photos should be submitted as JPG.
  • Photo files should be 6MB or less in size.
  • Name files in the order they are to appear in your book i.e., image1.jpg, image2.jpg, etc.
  • Provide your introductory text and photo captions as a digital file – Word or TXT.
  • Number captions or indicate the applicable image to which it applies.

Samples

Doors- Cover

Doors – Photo Book of 28 Pages