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Softcover
Real press printing at the price of a photo order.
The Softcover exists so price is never the reason a book stays on a hard drive. Same press, same inks and same colour management as every tier above it; the difference is a laminated card cover instead of a board case, and a glued spine instead of a sewn one. It lies reasonably flat, survives a coffee table, and costs about what a set of prints used to.
Offset-quality press — 300 dpi. Ink laid down as a fine screen of dots at 300 dpi, colour-managed to a measured profile. What a good book or magazine is printed with. Compare the three processes
What you get
Built like this
- Offset-quality printing on 170 gsm silk art paper
- Perfect-bound spine, printed and titled
- Full-bleed pages — photos run to the trim edge
- Cheap enough to order five and hand them out
Specifications
| Printing | Offset-quality press, 300 dpi |
|---|---|
| Binding | Perfect bound (softcover) |
| Cover | Matte laminated 300 gsm softcover |
| Paper | Silk art paper |
| Paper weight | 170 gsm |
| Lay-flat | No — conventional bound spine |
| Dust jacket | — |
| Archival | Standard longevity, fade-resistant inks |
| Page range | 20–120, in twos |
| Best for | Trip recaps, class projects, giving copies to everyone |
Inside it
How the spreads sit
Sewn and glued, so the book opens well and stays open — but keep faces out of the very centre of a spread, or step up to a lay-flat edition.
Every size
Softcover in all seven trim sizes
Shown at the included page count. Each page beyond that adds a flat amount, times the size factor.
6 × 6 Mini
6 × 6 in
$14.88
24 pages
8 × 8 Square
8 × 8 in
$24.00
24 pages
8.5 × 11 Portrait
8.5 × 11 in
$30.00
24 pages
11 × 8.5 Landscape
11 × 8.5 in
$30.00
24 pages
10 × 10 Square
10 × 10 in
$32.40
24 pages
12 × 12 Square
12 × 12 in
$42.00
24 pages
13 × 10 Panorama
13 × 10 in
$44.40
24 pages
Extra pages: $0.55 per page at 8 × 8, scaled by the size factor. Nothing else is added.
Price it now
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Also consider
The other editions
Classic Hardcover
The book most people mean when they say "photo book".
Linen Hardcover
Woven linen and foil, for the book you do not want to look printed.
Lay-Flat Premium
Mounted spreads with no gutter. A photo can cross the middle.
Photographic Lay-Flat
Real photographic paper, developed in chemistry. No ink, no dots.
Archival Heirloom
Cotton rag, pigment inks, leather and a slipcase. Built for a century.
Giclée Atelier
Twelve pigment inks at 1200 dpi on Hahnemühle rag, hand-bound in a clamshell.
Make the book this year, not next year
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