Choose your binding, enter your trim size, page count and paper — and download a print-ready, correctly-sized cover template with every fold, bleed, hinge and overhang marked. Paperback to cased hardback. No guesswork, no email back-and-forth.
Each type produces a different template — paperbacks fold around the spine, cased hardbacks wrap over boards with a hinge and overhang, jackets and gatefolds add flaps.
Spine width is calculated from your page count and paper using our production data — the exact figure our bindery works to.
Artwork runs past the trim line so cutting never leaves a white sliver. Marked in red.
Hardback boards overhang the pages 5mm at the fore-edge and 3mm at head & tail, and sit back at the spine for the joint. Design full-bleed to the board edge.
On a PPC case, an 11mm groove between board and spine lets it open. (Hidden under a dustjacket.)
Jackets & gatefolds fold inward; cased cases wrap 20mm behind the board (turn-in). New to jackets? Dust jackets, explained.
Upload your finished artwork for a free file check, or get an instant quote on your run. Logged-in publishers can pull these dimensions straight from a saved title.