Printing Service

Hire us to print your chapbook.

People ask us all the time, “Who prints your chapbooks?” We do — every one, by hand, in-house. And we’re happy to print yours too.

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Please note

This is a printing service — not our publishing platform. Being published in our juried International Chapbook Series is a separate, selective process.

Hand-made, in-house

Real books, bound one at a time.

Our chapbooks are printed on 24# responsibly sourced paper with environmentally friendly inks and a 110# cover. Every copy is bound by hand and trimmed in-house — nothing is outsourced, and the resulting books are really quite nice.

24# responsibly sourced interior paper
Eco-friendly inks throughout
110# paper cover stock
Hand-bound & trimmed in-house
Optional protective plastic wrap
Usually ready in about a week

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What your price includes

You supply the manuscript. We do the rest.

One flat price per copy covers everything from layout to the finished, packaged book — no surprise add-ons.

Formatting

We lay out your interior for the 5.5″ × 8.5″ trim, front matter and all.

Cover design

A clean, handsome cover on 110# stock — designed to suit your book.

Hand binding

Every copy is bound and trimmed by hand in our shop — never outsourced.

Packaging

Optional protective wrap keeps each book clean for storage and shipping.

It’s your book. We don’t supply an ISBN, we don’t sell it in our bookstore, and we never add a page promoting our company. Our name doesn’t appear anywhere in your publication — we simply print and package your books, beautifully. You must own the copyright; no public-domain books.

Pricing

Straightforward, per-copy pricing.

Prices include formatting, cover design, printing, and packaging. Figure roughly 20 pages of content plus 4 pages of front matter.

Black & white

$5 / copy

Up to 24 pages, 100 copies or more. Our most popular option.

With color pages

from $6 / copy

100 copies or more. Color-heavy projects may run a little more.

Shipping varies by project — you’re charged actual postage. Hand-made books take real time, so we can’t be the cheapest; what we offer instead is a unique, high-quality product you’ll be proud to distribute. You supply the manuscript and we do the rest.

Only making a few copies? Our minimum run is 100 books, so for a smaller batch you’re usually better off making the chapbook yourself. If you’d like to learn how, chapbook.info has step-by-step instructions for formatting, folding, and binding one.

Specifications

The particulars.

Trim size: 5.5″ × 8.5″ (one size)
Interior: 24# paper · eco-friendly inks
Cover: 110# paper stock
Binding: Hand-bound & trimmed in-house
Minimum run: 100 copies
Turnaround: About a week · longer if we order supplies

How it works

From manuscript to finished books.

Tell us about your project and we’ll handle the rest — four simple steps from your first email to a box of books at your door.

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Tell us about your manuscriptPage count, black & white or color, and how many copies you’d like.

We send you a quoteA clear price for formatting, cover, printing, and packaging — plus postage.

We print & hand-bindYour book is laid out, printed, bound, and trimmed in our shop.

We package & shipOptionally wrapped, boxed, and sent to you — usually in about a week.

Ready to start?

Let’s print something you’re proud of.

Consider our hand-made chapbooks for your next project. Send us the details and we’ll get you a quote.

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