Self Published Book Printing

Books are great!

You can write them, collect them, sniff them, stroke them, discuss them, ban them, put them on your bedside table or lend them to your friends.

Have you ever tried to sniff a pdf?!

There are no illogical restrictions on quantity or size – it’s your book printing, your decision! You didn’t work through the night fine tuning and tweaking it to then send it off to the printer and for him to tell you “Nope, you can’t do that, we’re going to print it at A4 onto a really shiny glossy stock that makes all of your words illegible”.

Thankfully, we’re not that printer. Ex Why Zed have a forward thinking attitude to print and we will always try to find a print solution to even the most bespoke request – we’ve printed some challenging publications in the past!

Have a look through the images below depicting a wide selection of recent books we are proud to have printed.

Books. You’ll have seen them by now? They have them all over the place these days! At Ex Why Zed, the generous souls we are, have made it really easy for you to self-publish a book with your name on it. Literally.

For layout ideas our Pinterest boards are packed with further designs to inspire and consider. If that wasn’t enough, our Portfolio digs deeper into a selection of our favourite and most unique self published books. So have a browse and then choose a spec that suits your project.

There are almost infinite possibilities on size, finishing and papers so we offer expert knowledge and advice before your job goes to press, a competitive zine print quote to stretch your budget and a high quality standard of printing delivered nationally throughout the UK and worldwide too.

We charge fair prices and want to save you money so here are some tips to help reduce your costs:

• Choosing one of our ‘house’ stocks which come in an uncoated, silk or gloss finish will keep your price down. Each each come in a wide selection of weights from 120gsm (which is great for your text pages) through to 300gsm and even 350gsm which are perfect for your covers. Branded papers (GF Smith, Antalis and Fedrigoni) do look great but cost more so save these for the bigger budget jobs.

• The three factors that affect the cost most significantly are size, number of pages and quantity. The bigger the book, the more pages or the more copies you need – the higher the cost! Simple and obvious. Sometimes less is more – is there any scope for further editing your project to help reduce your price?

To make your publication stand out from the crowd a range of bespoke and eye catching papers from GF Smith, Fedrigoni and Antalis.

An increasing number of our clients have successfully used Kickstarter, indiegogo or Crowdfunder to raise funds, increase awareness and interest in their books. Art books seem to do particularly well on Kickstarter. How great would it be to have your book fully funded before you go to print?! By offering a range of incentives to backers it can provide invaluable funds which could ultimately mean you are able to print more books than originally planned.

Also do have a look at securing financial help through The Arts Council. They also regularly support many of our clients.

We have compiled a super helpful blog post about these ideas and many more.

Have a look through the images below depicting a wide selection of recent books we are proud to have printed.

We have done our best to give you a huge wealth of information on this page and in our guides but if here are some frequently asked questions to help you get your work into print.