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Short-run zine printing for artists, writers and collectives. Saddle-stitched or perfect bound, mono or full colour, from 10 copies.
Zines were photocopied and hand-stapled before they were anything else, and plenty still are — that’s the culture. But when a run needs to sell at a fair, sit in an indie bookshop or do an artist’s work justice, home printing hits its ceiling: creased folds, drifting staples, colour that dies on office paper.
We print zines in-house at our Exeter bindery. Saddle-stitched for the classic 8–48 page format, perfect bound when a zine grows a spine. Mono risograph-adjacent looks on uncoated and recycled stocks, or full colour on silk for photo work. From 10 copies, no setup fees, and nobody here will ask you to explain your content’s “target market”.
Price a perfect-bound zine live — for saddle-stitched runs the full calculator prices staples too.
Illustration collections, photo essays, sketchbook editions. Full colour on silk stocks, or deliberate mono on uncoated for the classic zine feel.
Poetry pamphlets, short-story collections, perzines. Cream uncoated stocks, restrained mono interiors, covers that punch above the page count.
Music zines, football zines, community and campaign publications. Cheap enough to sell at cover prices that make sense, sturdy enough to survive the gig.
Runs timed for zine fairs and art-book fairs. Short reprints when a table sells out — 25 more copies is a normal order, not an inconvenience.
Zines are cheap to print — that’s the point of the format. The rows below show typical perfect-bound specs at live prices; for classic saddle-stitched runs, the quote calculator prices those too. Prices include UK delivery.
| Format | Specification | Quantity | Per copy |
|---|---|---|---|
A5 mono zine |
64pp mono · perfect bound · 80gsm opaque |
50 | £2.25per copy |
A5 colour photo zine |
64pp colour · perfect bound · 130gsm gloss |
50 | £3.94per copy |
A5 colour photo zine |
64pp colour · perfect bound · 130gsm gloss |
100 | £3.19per 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 size, pages, paper and quantity — prices calculate live so you can find the run that suits your cover price.
Print-ready PDF with 3mm bleed — the free file check flags low-res pages and bleed problems before they cost you.
Digital proof of covers and interiors — check your blacks, spreads and full-bleed pages before press.
Printed in Exeter on calibrated presses — mono that stays crisp, colour that stays honest to the file.
Stitched or perfect bound in-house, trimmed square, lamination applied where specced.
Shrink-wrapped in fair-table counts and dispatched via DPD — or collect from the bindery.
With one sheet of paper — genuinely. Our guide to how to make a zine covers the whole road: the classic 8-page one-sheet fold, choosing a format, laying out pages, assembling, and selling at fairs. Come back here when your zine wants a proper print run.
10 copies. Most zine runs we print are 25–100 copies for fairs and online shops, reprinting as they sell. There are no setup fees, so a 25-copy reprint costs what you’d expect it to.
Page count decides. 8–48 pages: saddle-stitch — it’s the classic zine format and the cheapest to produce. From around 64 pages, perfect binding gives you a flat spine you can print on, which matters once a zine sits spine-out on a shelf. Between 48 and 64 either works; stitch if it’s ephemeral, bind if it’s a keeper.
80–100gsm uncoated, mono, ideally on a recycled stock — ink sits matte on the surface and the page has a texture gloss can’t fake. For photo zines go the other way: 130–150gsm silk keeps blacks deep and skin tones honest. Mixing is allowed — uncoated text with a silk plate section reads as very deliberate.
No — we’re a digital bookbindery, not a riso studio, and we’d rather say so than fake it. What we offer instead: mono and spot-colour-style layouts on uncoated recycled stocks that sit comfortably next to riso work at a fair, plus binding and trimming that home production can’t match. If your artwork is built as riso separations, we can print a composite version.
Yes — we print lawful adult material without fuss; see our NSFW printing page for how we handle it (short version: professionally, discreetly, no judgment).
Most zine runs leave the bindery 5–10 working days after you approve the proof — stitched work moves quickly. If a fair date is bearing down on you, tell us before you order and we’ll work the schedule backwards from your table setup.
Depends on pages, size, paper and colour — the live table below shows typical specs, and the quote calculator prices your exact zine in thirty seconds. As a rule of thumb: mono A5 zines land at a unit cost that supports a £4–6 cover price at 50 copies.
Can’t find your answer? See our 73-question book printing FAQ for detail on file prep, binding, paper, turnaround and shipping.
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