Production record · February 2026
Released Tuesday, despatched eight working days later
A new customer needed 1,000 cloth hardbacks with a printed jacket. They were released on a Tuesday and despatched eight working days later.
A new customer needed 1,000 hardbacks: B-format, 192 pages with four in colour, thread-sewn, cased in Wibalin cloth, with a printed dust jacket.
| Format | B-format hardback, flat back |
|---|---|
| Extent | 192 pages: 188 mono, 4 colour |
| Text paper | 120gsm Bookwove White |
| Binding | Thread-sewn, cased |
| Case | Wibalin cloth |
| Jacket | Printed dust jacket: 1,200 printed for 1,000 books |
| Quantity | 1,000 copies |
| Released | Tuesday 17 February 2026 |
| Despatched | Friday 27 February 2026 |
A hardback has more stages than a paperback: the book is sewn, the cases are made, the blocks are cased in and then jacketed. Our standard time for hardbacks is 3 to 4 weeks from proof approval, and it still is; this run shows what the route can do when the schedule allows.
Text printed on our own presses, the four colour pages alongside the mono. Sections thread-sewn on the Meccanotecnica Universe. Cases made and the blocks cased in on our Kolbus line, the route for runs of 150 copies and more. Jackets printed in the same works.
120gsm Bookwove White for the text. Wibalin cloth over our standard 2,750 micron board.
Thread-sewn and cased with a flat back: the sewn block glued into a rigid case with a square spine.
A printed dust jacket over the cloth case: 1,200 jackets printed for 1,000 books.
Despatched on Friday 27 February 2026: 1,010 copies, as counted on our despatch records.
Released on Tuesday 17 February, bound on Thursday 26, despatched on Friday 27 February: eight working days for 1,000 sewn cloth hardbacks.
Print the jackets over quantity, so jacketing never waits on a second run of jackets.
In the twelve months to 28 September 2026 we made 184 sewn hardback runs.
Released is the day a job entered the print queue after approval. Copies despatched are as counted on our despatch records, which include the overs and unders our terms allow. Photographs show general production at our works, not the job described.
Send us the specification, a competitor quotation or a physical copy of the book. We will compare it line by line and tell you:
Riley Hancock, Account Manager
01392 851550 · [email protected]
A quotation as a PDF: email it to Riley. A physical copy of the book: post it to Imprint Digital, Unit 1, Seychelles Farm, Upton Pyne, Exeter EX5 5HY.
Built around the manufacture, specification intact
Released Monday, all despatched Friday
Released Monday, despatched Thursday