Free, instant book printing quote calculator for short-run UK book printing. Configure your paperback or hardback specifications and see your live per-copy and total price as you go — no email, no sign-up, no waiting. Saved quotes confirmed within one working day. The same online book printing quote tool used by 132+ five-star-reviewed customers since the late 1990s.
How many pages will your book have? Enter mono pages on the left and colour pages on the right.
Page counts must be divisible by 4 for thread-sewn binding. Spine width is an estimate — confirmed before production.
Use Save quote or Submit order in the summary panel to continue.
Estimate excl. VAT & delivery. Final quote confirmed on submission. Terms apply.
“The quality and service is second to none. Plus they are always keen to work with tight deadlines.”
Our book printing quote calculator gives you a live, accurate price for short-run book printing in the UK — from just 10 copies upward. The calculator supports every spec we offer: paperback book printing (perfect bound, PUR bound, thread-sewn paperback) and hardback book printing (case-bound, thread-sewn) across five standard book sizes plus custom dimensions up to 320×320mm.
Use it as an instant book printing quote, an online book printing quote, or a book printing cost calculator — same tool, same numbers. Every figure is computed from the same pricing model we use for confirmed orders — no bait-and-switch, no email-gate before the price reveals, and no sign-up required to see your numbers. The book printing quote you see is the book printing quote you pay.
Whether you’re a self-publishing author pricing your debut, a trade publisher running test editions, an academic institution producing monographs, or a corporate team commissioning reports — the same book printing price calculator works for all of you, from short run book printing at 10 copies up to long trade runs of 10,000+.
Three reasons short-run authors and publishers configure here first instead of asking for a manual quote.
Every figure tracks the same pricing model we use for confirmed orders. No surprises between quote and invoice.
Configure your spec and see the price — no sign-up, no email, no “contact us for a quote”. Saving the quote is optional.
Every figure includes UK mainland tracked-courier delivery. VAT is excluded but added at order time at the prevailing rate.
The base quote covers the full production. Custom finishing extras are added on top at order time.
For a comprehensive view of typical UK book printing prices at every quantity tier, see our book printing prices page.
Five common reasons people configure a book printing quote here.
Most self-publishing authors using the calculator are pricing their debut paperback or hardback edition. From 10 copies up — no minimum, no setup fees, ISBN-ready when you are.
Configure rough specs to ballpark a budget before commissioning design or editing. See how price changes as you adjust quantity, page count, paper or binding.
Same book, different bindings: see the cost difference between perfect bound, PUR, thread-sewn paperback and case-bound hardback before deciding.
Ready to print? Configure the exact spec, save the quote, and we’ll confirm it within one working day with any optimisation suggestions.
Load a saved quote from the past 30 days, adjust quantity, get the new figure instantly. Logged-in account holders can save unlimited quotes.
A handful of recent self-publishing and trade titles we’ve printed and bound for UK authors. Photos sent in by the authors themselves — their words, their books, their proof.
Get Good at Life
Run
The Easy Yes
Angels of Mine
Outside Looking In
Morecambe Writer Types
The Elder Race
Pen-Y-Gwryd Hotel
It’s no exaggeration to say I have been blown away by the way they operate.
The quality of their prints, and the service throughout, is second to none.
Imprint Digital are the best printers out there.
