Here at Book Edge Printing Uk, we offer full colour digital edge printing for paperback books,
Giving your books the perfect edge.
Who we are
Book Edge Printing UK is a UK based company in the East Midlands.
We offer digital colour edge printing for paperback books, soft back notebooks, diaries and business cards with a small minimum quantity.
Our service offers edge printing of text, patterns, motifs and solid colours.
We are also hoping to expand our services to cover delivery to book event venues in the UK to help support authors and publishers during their busy periods.
Please enquire about delivery to venues.
How we work
We offer services based on a minimum order of 10 books per design. In addition to the minimum order, we require one set up book per design which is not returnable.
Job turnaround is 10 days from the receipt of your books and all orders are sent back via a tracked delivery service.
The order process
Step One: Complete the enquiry form.
Step two: Upon receipt of the enquiry form we will contact you with a quote and are available to answer any questions.
Step three: Upon acceptance of the quote, please pay the invoice.
Step four: Email your edge designs (designs must have a 3mm bleed area on all four sides of the design) with the order form number. Please label the files as shown in the graphic below, eg. E1, E2, E3. All files must be in PDF format.
Step five: Send your books directly to us, to the address listed on your invoice. Whether that be from your personal stock or directly from your supplier (Amazon, Ingram Sparks, independent printers etc).
Step six: Confirmation of receiving books and a quality check of the books takes place.
Step seven: Printing of order. Turnaround is 10 working days from the receipt of your books.
Step eight: Packaging and dispatch of order. Tracking number emailed to customer.
Future Projects
Influencers:
How would you like the chance to receive and promote some of your favourite authors, as well as new to you authors?
If you are interested in receiving a promotional box in return for a social media post, please fill in this form.
We anticipate offering a free book box promotional service to social media influencers in anticipation of building our brand while promoting authors.
How it works:
Authors completing an order with us have the option of opting into the service when they fill out the enquiry form. They would simply provide a book(s) and we would cover the cost of the digital edge printing and postage of that book(s) to the influencer(s). The influencer would then showcase the book box via social media and tag the author and us on the post(s).
* We would not be responsible for the influencers video.
BJ Alpha
Incredible service.
Walked me through the process, great communication and amazing end product. Definitely re-ordering.
Natasha Wingfield
I highly recommend Book Edge Printing UK! Their communication was fantastic and incredibly helpful, especially as this was my first time having custom edges printed for my books. The entire process was smooth, the turnaround time was great and the final product exceeded my expectations. The quality is absolutely beautiful and their prices are fantastic too. I couldn't be happier with the experience!
Emily Catlow
Lee was so helpful and made my first time of getting anything fancy on my books, very stream line.
He explained the process clearly and all I had to do was send him my books.
I will ABSOLUTELY be using Book Edge Printing UK again!
Terms & Conditions
By placing an order with Book Edge Printing UK via email, you are agreeing to our terms and conditions.
Book Edge Printing UK is referred to as, ‘we’ and the customer is referred to as, ‘you’.
Delivery of YOUR books to US is your responsibility. Once your books are received by us, we will quality check them and you will be notified of any discrepancies within seven days of receipt of said books.
Authorised Collaborations:
You must be the author, an official publisher or have explicit legal licensing and permission from the copyright/IP holder to sell their work or merchandise.
Delivery
We will arrange for the delivery of the Goods to the address specified in the quotation/Invoice, or your order or to another location.
If you have chosen collection for your Goods, you must collect the Goods from our premises unless agreed otherwise during agreed hours and day.
Subject to the specific terms of any special delivery service, delivery can take place at any time of the day and must be accepted at any time, unless agreed otherwise.
Goods will be distributed by a third party and shipping includes insurance for your order. If you do not take delivery of the Goods or collect the Goods we may, at our discretion and without prejudice to any other rights:
Store or arrange for the storage of the Goods and will charge you for all associated cost and expenses including, but not limited to, transportation, storage and insurance and or make arrangements for the delivery of the Goods and will charge you for the cost of such redelivery.
We can charge you for all associated costs including, but not limited to, storage and insurance.
Unless otherwise agreed in writing, completion and delivery times are a guide only and, whilst we will make every effort to adhere to proposed timescales, time is not of the essence in any contract with you.
We will not be liable for any delay in delivery of the Goods that is caused by a circumstance beyond our control or your failure to provide us with adequate delivery instructions or any other instructions that are relevant to the supply of the Goods.
It shall be the duty of the Customer immediately on delivery of the goods to make an inspection of them in every respect and to satisfy themselves of their adherence to specification.
Delivery to events will be agreed in writing, with specific, time, location and table number and contact details. You will sign for confirmation of receipt of products agreeing they’re all in good order.
Claims arising from damage or partial loss of goods in transit must be made in writing to us within ten working days of delivery. If no claim is made within the above stipulated time limits the goods delivered shall be deemed to be in all respects in accordance with the Order.
If a claim is made for damage, the recipient must keep all packaging and any damaged items for inspection until the claim is resolved. Collection of the item may be arranged before settlement of the claim. Reprints and refunds from your claim will take from 4-6 weeks due to the claim inspection both from our staff and 3rd party insurers.
All goods must be fully inspected on delivery and if goods are deemed to be damaged or in boxes that are damaged they should be signed for as such.
If you identify any damages or defects, you must inform us in writing within 7 days of delivery, providing details and where possible images.
Proofs
You must accept that there may be variation resulting from the nature of the digital print process and factors outside of our control.
Print Process
For technical reasons, minor ink drips and overspray may occur into the book block. During the printing process, colour accuracy may not be possible to 100% and some variations may occur between the proof copy and from previous printing runs.
Full-colour printing
Printing in a solid colour is not recommended.
Printing Variations
We will try our utmost to obtain the best possible colour reproduction on your work but variations are inherent in the print process and it is understood and accepted as reasonable that we can not guarantee an exact match in colour.
We will always do our best to match the colours but you accept that it is not always possible. Colour variations will be seen as acceptable and we cannot be held liable for any colours that do not match the proof copy (within reason) or your previous print run. We will do our best to colour match your PDF file to our colour calibrated screen if there is no proof or previous print run to work with.
Occasionally, a small amount of ink from the sprayed edge process may pull onto the first or last few pages of the book. While we take steps to minimise this, it is not always possible to eliminate completely, due to how the book is clamped during spraying.
Edge printing designs may have slight variation or warping due to texture/moisture content of paper and due to the nature of a flexible, cut edge. We'll work to minimise this as much as possible.
Pages inside the book that bleed off the edge can show through the printed edge, depending on the designs.
All artwork must be supplied to our artwork guidelines which can be read on our main page.
If your artwork does not match the guidelines then we may charge an additional fee to cover the time spent in making your artwork correct for print. The cost for any alterations will be given to you before we amend any files and to give you a chance to amend them to re-send.
