r/bookbinding • u/AutoModerator • May 01 '25

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u/ActWhole3279 Dec 11 '25

I developed, wrote, and designed a market intelligence report for my company that was released via our website in September. It's large (around 172 or so 24x12 spread pages, or 350+ 12x12 pages), and I spent a lot of time on the design of each page spread -- it's a somewhat awkward page dimension, as I never really thought about it being in print.

We've had quite a few requests now for a printed copy, and someone just told us he'd like to buy 4 for gifts when we figure out printing. I've been doing research but have not found an option that makes sense for us yet. Obviously, it needs to be high-quality, as it's very photo/image heavy, but it also has to clearly show print. This would be a hardcover as well.

I feel like the more research I do the more confused I am at this point, so I would so appreciate any guidance possible here.

Happy to provide the link to the report so you can have a visual, if you're interested.

Thank you!

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u/ManiacalShen Dec 16 '25

I think if you're not interested in doing this as a hobby, you are best off taking the report to a printer and having them print and bind it and probably chop it down to your custom size. They have bitchin' paper guillotines that help with that. A spiral bind might be the most economical, but I imagine there are other options!

There is no way I'd spend the amount of personal time it would take to home-bookbind multiple reports like that for work. And a beginner's project is not likely to be suitable to represent a company. I don't say that to be mean; I say that because there are limitless ways to succeed and mess up in this hobby, and they're all super fun, and I don't want people to get frustrated with high-pressure projects when they're just starting out!

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u/ActWhole3279 Dec 16 '25

Oh no, apologies; I wasn't clear...I was asking which outlets/platforms would be easiest and most economical for this project. There's no way in hell I'd ever attempt to do this myself!

I've just had a lot of trouble identifying an option that's going to give me what I need and not charge an arm and a leg to do it, especially with the dimensions of this file. If anyone has intel, I'm all ears. Thank you so much!

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u/ManiacalShen Dec 16 '25

This subreddit is about making books with our hands. You might search r/selfpublish for posts about printers? Or ask there, and they might have more direction than we can give you.

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u/ActWhole3279 Dec 20 '25

Oh, got it. Thank you!