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Custom notebooks printed and bound in-house. Branded corporate books, retail stationery lines and one-off runs, from 10 copies.
Print your own notebook and most “custom notebook” suppliers turn out to be promotional-merchandise companies: an off-the-shelf notebook, your logo screen-printed on the cover, done. That works for conference giveaways. It doesn’t work when the notebook is the product — a retail stationery line, a premium client gift, a piece of brand identity someone will carry for a year.
We manufacture notebooks from scratch at our Exeter bindery. Every element is yours to spec — page ruling, paper stock, format, cover material, foil blocking, endpapers, ribbon. Hardback, paperback or wire-O, from 10 copies for a private run to thousands for retail. Rulings (lined, dotted, grid, blank) are printed at no extra cost.
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Client gifts, onboarding packs, conference editions. Foil-blocked logos on cloth or soft-touch covers, brand-coloured rule lines, custom title pages.
Stationery brands and lifestyle retailers. Retail-grade finishing, barcoded back covers, custom endpapers, runs sized to sell-through from 100 copies.
Cover art you own on a notebook you sell. Heavier sketch stocks, lay-flat wire-O or sewn binding, short runs that suit market-stall and online-shop economics.
Wedding favours, workshop books, retreat journals, membership editions. Small runs from 10 copies with the same finishing as retail product.
Custom notebooks range from cost-effective perfect-bound paperbacks to case-bound retail hardbacks with foil and ribbon. The rows below show typical specifications at live prices; price your own ruling, paper and cover in the calculator.
| Format | Specification | Quantity | Per copy |
|---|---|---|---|
A5 paperback notebook |
160pp ruled · perfect bound · 80gsm opaque |
100 | £2.10per copy |
A5 hardback notebook |
192pp ruled · case bound · 80gsm opaque |
100 | £3.35per copy |
A5 hardback notebook |
192pp ruled · case bound · 80gsm opaque |
500 | £2.49per copy |
Prices include UK delivery, exclude VAT. For the full UK book printing prices across paperback and hardback at every quantity tier, see our pricing page — or get an exact quote for your spec →
Build the spec, see the price live. No account required, no email gate — just an instant figure based on what you actually want.
Pick format, ruling, paper and quantity — prices calculate live across the run sizes.
Cover artwork plus your ruling choice — or ask for our lined, dotted and grid templates and drop your branding straight in.
Digital proof of the cover and ruling pages — check logo position, foil area and rule spacing at actual size.
Rulings printed in Exeter on opaque uncoated stocks — no show-through on the written page.
Case, perfect, PUR or wire-O assembly, with foil, ribbons and endpapers fitted in-house.
Boxed in retail-ready counts and dispatched via DPD — single cartons up to pallet runs, UK and overseas.
10 copies. Unlike promotional-merchandise suppliers with 250-unit floors, we run notebooks as short-run book production — so 10 copies for a small business, 50 for a workshop, 500 for a retail line all price sensibly. Cost per copy falls meaningfully at 50, 100, 250 and 500 — run the numbers at a couple of quantities to find your sweet spot.
Yes — full-CMYK printed covers, or foil blocking on cloth and leather-style covers for the premium corporate look. Supply Pantone references and we’ll match as closely as digital printing allows; foil on a plain base reproduces brand colour most precisely. Rule lines and page headers can also print in brand colours at no extra cost.
Hardback is our signature notebook format — case-bound with printed PPC, cloth or leather-style covers, exactly the construction of our hardback book printing. A hardback notebook opens with head & tail bands, an optional ribbon and printed endpapers, and survives a year in a bag the way a paperback can’t. It’s the format most corporate and retail runs choose; the price table below shows it against the paperback equivalent.
Same bindery, different starting point. Journal printing covers guided and structured books — planners, diaries, gratitude and travel journals with designed interior content. Notebook printing is for ruled, dotted, grid or blank writing books — where the cover, branding and paper are the product. If your interior is a designed layout, start on the journal page; if it’s a ruling, you’re in the right place.
Most custom notebooks land at 80–100gsm uncoated — opaque enough that ink doesn’t show through, light enough to keep a 192-page book comfortable in the hand. Fountain-pen-friendly briefs want 100–120gsm. Sketch notebooks take 130–170gsm. Cream reads warmer and more traditional; white reads cleaner and more corporate.
Yes — ribbon markers, head and tail bands and printed endpapers are standard hardback options, and elastic closures are available on case-bound notebooks. These finishing details are usually what separates a retail-grade notebook from a promotional one, and they cost less than most buyers expect at 100+ copies.
Retail notebooks cluster at 160–192 pages; corporate notebooks at 128–160. Below 96 pages a case-bound book starts to feel thin; above 240 it stops lying comfortably open unless thread-sewn. We’ll flag it in the quote if your page count and binding choice fight each other.
Paperback and wire-O notebooks take 5–10 working days from proof approval; case-bound hardbacks 10–15, since the covers are made separately and cased on. Express options are available for event deadlines.
Yes — order a free sample pack showing binding styles, cover laminations, foils and paper stocks. Particularly useful for corporate buyers and stationery brands making first-time spec decisions.
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