Paper Options for your Book

Color Book Printing
We offer 80# Lustro High Gloss Enamel paper or 80# White Matte paper (dull, non-glossy). The high gloss paper is similar to school book text enamel used in yearbook printing. We also offer 100# Gloss Enamel as a thicker alternative to the 80# if you need additional thickness in your book. For extreme thickness, we offer a C2S card stock which can only be bound by one of the spiral methods. All our Enamel paper is FSC certified Recycled paper.

Black and White Book Printing
Our standard text paper is 60# acid-free Smooth Opaque Off White. Most bookstore quality non-color books are printed on this type of paper. We do offer, however, the 60# smooth white paper for black printing as an option at no additional cost. The 60lb paper is only 10% post recycled product, so it is not FSC certified recycled paper, but does contain some recycled content.

Color & Black and White Book Printing
Cover stock is 10pt C1S (coated one side) cover stock, covers with inside print are printed on C2S (coated two sides). Cover coating consists of either a UV liquid coating that is no additional cost or plastic lamination coating for $.25 additional. Both the UV and plastic lamination look the same with a very high gloss. However, the plastic lamination provides a little extra protection generally reserved for cookbooks, etc. Most paperback books are UV coated. The cover stock used contains only 10% post recycled product, so it is not FSC certified recycled, but does contain recycled content.

Note: Paper types cannot be mixed within a book. The type you select will be used for all content pages of your book.

For more information, go to our Pricing Information page with online calculator.