Before we print a book, we often need to calculate the cost of printing a book. So that we can know per book cost and determine the book pricing. Book printing in china, the cost of printing a book is depend on the quantity, size, material, etc factors.

In book printing china, we calculate the cost of printing a book. We often divided the cost into 8 parts. They are page, size, color, material, binding, quantity, finishing and shipping cost.

1. Number of pages of the book

For the same type of book printing, the more pages, the printing cost is higher.

2. Book size

Different size, the cost is different. In theory, the printing cost of a small size book will be cheaper than the enormous size. Because the size is more bigger, it needs to use more paper and the binding will be complex than small size.

3. Coloring printing mode of the book

The cost of simple color printing is cheaper than complex color printing. For book printing, the cost of black and white printing is less than four color printing. And four color printing is cheaper than Pantone color printing. Although the cost of Pantone color printing is higher than this two. But its printing quality is premium than this two.

4. The material selection of book printing

Select different material. The cost of printing a book is different. For the inner page printing, special paper and brand paper will be higher than ordinary book. For the book cover printing, cloth, leather, Kraft paper, linen paper, etc material is expensive than ordinary paper as the cover.

5. Finishing

To make the book look more beautiful and high-end. Some books will be with some crafts on the book cover or inner page surface to achieve such an effect. Such as with UV, hot stamping, lamination, embossing, etc crafts. The finishing more complex, the cost will be higher.

6. The book binding way

Custom book printing, we often see the common binding ways. Like saddle stitched binding, wire-o or spiral binding, hardcover binding, etc. Since hardcover binding, its binding process and time is need more than other binding way. Make it cost higher than paperback binding.

7. Book printing quantity

The book printing cost often depends on your printing quantity. Like custom cheap magazine printing. If the quantity is less than 500 copies, in fact, the cost is the same as 500 copies. So you print less, that means your per book cost will be very expensive.

8. Cost of shipping

Different shipping way, the shipping cost is different. The shipping cost will be directly affect your per book cost. If for the mass product, shipping by sea will be cheaper than by air.

After know these 8 factors, we can know how to calculate our per book printing cost. Such as custom photo hardcover book printing. The book size is 264*378, and 116 pages. Use 157g matte art paper printing the inner page and 200g matte art paper to print the edge paper. And then with four color printing add one Pantone color printing to print the inner page and with four color printing to print the edge paper. After finish printing, gold foil on the cover logo, wave pattern and edge. Inner page with spot UV. In factal, binding with sewing hardcover. If print 500 copies with shipping, per cost is about 88USD. But if print less than 500 copies, the per cost will be very high.

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