Printed Hard Cover

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We Print Your Document

  • Print ONLY the pages you want in color
  • Multiple fabric and leather options
  • Regular Paper choices include 20lb Bond, 60lb Bond
  • Cotton paper choices include 25% Cotton, 100% Cotton
  • Coated paper choices 80lb Gloss and 80lb Matte
  • All prints on Coated paper charged at low color rate

or You Print and Mail Us Your Document

Print your document yourself and mail it to us for binding
You can print anything you want on the cover including full color designs, photographs, and your college seal–ALL FOR FREE! It’s perfect for theses, dissertations, genealogies, yearbooks, photo books, and more.To make your Printed Hardcover, we simply take your approved design*, print it on our high-quality digital printers, and laminate the print, then use it to make the cover instead of fabric. You can design your own cover and send us your file, or we can provide basic designs for you.Printed Hard Cover Binding features:
  • Personalized cover design–including full color designs, photographs, or your college seal–free of charge!
  • Cover print is protected with Lamination
  • Stitched and trimmed document binding
Wrap-Around Full Color Covers This example of a CUSTOMER-SUPPLIED cover has a wrap-around full color design with a photograph and Vitae on the back cover. Send us your design, as elaborate and colorful as you please, and we’ll deliver your book with your cover design in brilliant color. NOTE: This cover design was supplied by the customer. We don’t make elaborate covers like this!
Basic Cover Designs
The examples below represent the basic designs that we offer for free for Printed Hard Cover and Perfect Binding books. In the order process, you will have an opportunity to tell us what colors you would like, and you may supply your images by email or upload along with your document PDF file. We accept popular image formats such as jpg, png, tif, or pdf.

Note that after we receive your Perfect Binding or Printed Case Binding order, we will email you a PDF proof of your cover layout. You can approve the proof or make changes in Microsoft Word. But we cannot complete your Printed Case Binding or Perfect Binding order until we get your approval. So, your order will be delayed by the same amount of time it takes for you to approve your proof.