Production record

10,256
Colour Royal paperbacks

10,256 copies of one colour paperback

The largest single-title run in the twelve months

One Royal paperback in full colour, 10,256 copies: the largest single-title run we made in the twelve months to September 2026.

A paperback lying open to a colour photograph printed across the spread
A colour photograph printed across the spread of a paperback. General production, not this job.

01Brief

One Royal paperback in full colour, 10,256 copies.

02Specification

FormatRoyal paperback
PrintingFull colour throughout
Text paper100gsm Opaque
Quantity10,256 copies of one title

03Production challenge

Digital printing is often assumed to stop at a few hundred copies. This book needed colour on every page, at more than ten thousand copies.

04Production route

Printed in colour on our own presses and bound in the same works.

An operator checking a colour calibration chart at a colour press, a spectrophotometer on the chart holder
Checking colour at the press: the calibration chart and the spectrophotometer that reads it. General production, not this job.
Wrapped text paper stacked on racking and trolleys
Text paper on the racking. General production, not this job.

05Materials

100gsm Opaque for the text, printed in colour on both sides of every leaf.

06Result

10,256 copies ordered: the largest single-title run we made in the twelve months to 28 September 2026.

07What we would do again

Look at a large colour run on its own merits. Send us the specification and the quantity and we will tell you plainly whether digital is the right route for it.

08Related production capability

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.

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Riley Hancock, Account Manager
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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.

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