Move your book printing — and the metadata workflow that goes with it — to a UK printer built for indie publishers. Real prices, named contacts, modern tools. No more six-week waits, no more BiblioCloud subscription, no more guessing where your job is.
Each of these is on us. No commitment, no contract, no signup. Pick whichever feels easiest — they all end with you having a real, side-by-side answer to "is Imprint actually better for my next reprint?"
Forward your most recent print invoice from your current printer. Within 24 hours we'll spec-match every line item in our system and send you a side-by-side comparison: same book, same quantity, our price.
Pick the book you reprint most often. We'll print 100 copies at our cost and ship them to you. Compare them side-by-side with your last run. If we're not at least equal in quality, no further commitment — keep the books, walk away.
Most printers charge to release your files when you leave — and they don't make it easy. We'll write the request letter on your behalf, follow it up if needed, and cover any extraction fees up to a sensible cap. Your files arrive, we put them safely in your file vault.
Most publishers think of their printer as a vendor — submit the job, wait for the books, repeat. We're built differently. The longer you're with us, the more your titles, files, specs, distribution metadata and reorder history compound into something you'd struggle to leave.
Type an ISBN. Title, author, publisher, page count and cover auto-fill from the book trade's metadata sources. New title setup in seconds, not minutes.
✓ Live nowPaste a list of ISBNs (with optional spec hints — binding, paper, page count). Watch your entire backlist materialise in the Hub with covers, page counts and spec data ready for instant pricing.
Coming Q2 2026Generate compliant ONIX records direct from your print spec. Send to Ingram, Gardners, NBN, your distributor of choice. Cancel your metadata SaaS subscription — we throw it in with the print job.
Coming Q2 2026 Read the ONIX deep dive →Every cover and interior PDF you upload, version-controlled, kept forever. If your laptop dies, your masters are still here. Download any version, any time. Your CYA backup for the most valuable assets you have.
✓ Live nowEvery title in your Hub shows live reprint price bands at 50, 100, 250, 500 and 1,000 copies. Click the band, place the order — same spec, same files, no quoting back-and-forth.
✓ Live nowSee exactly where every order is — files received, pre-press checks, printing, binding, dispatch — with the named team member responsible at each stage. No more "where is my order?" emails.
✓ Live nowPer-title thresholds — we'll email you when it's been long enough since the last print run that you'll likely want to reprint. Combined with stock-tracking, never run out unexpectedly again.
✓ Live nowTell us your starting stock. We use your dispatch history and your sales velocity to predict when you'll run out — and quote your next reprint before you've even noticed.
Coming Q3 2026One human contact who knows your titles, your preferences, your last run. Replies the same day. Picks up the phone. Stays on your account. Not a ticket queue.
✓ Live nowBig printers do some things well — large-run economics, distribution scale, established trade relationships. We do other things well. Here's where the differences actually show up in your day-to-day publishing operation.
If you're printing 5,000+ copies per run regularly, the big printers' large-run economics will probably beat us. If you're printing 50–1,000 copies once a month, it's not close.
No long contracts, no migration consultants, no waiting for sales sign-off. We do the legwork; you confirm at each step.
Tell us about your titles, your typical run sizes, your distribution channels. We'll explain how each of the three risk-free moves works for your situation.
An ISBN list, a spreadsheet, or your last invoice. We'll spec everything in our system for you and send back a backlist quote document within 24 hours.
Pick your most-reprinted title. We'll print 100 copies and ship to you to compare. You hold the books in your hands within a week of saying yes.
If the books are good, your account is already set up — place your next paid reprint at the prices you've already seen. If not, no further commitment, keep the test copies.
A first test print run takes about a week from the initial call. Migrating an entire backlist depends on size — for a 30-title catalogue, with our help, you'd be fully set up within 5-10 working days. For larger backlists, we'll spec everything in batches so you can start placing orders before the full migration is complete. You don't have to move everything at once.
Your content stays yours — copyright in the manuscript and cover never transferred to the printer. Getting the production files physically back is usually possible but not always automatic: some printers release on request, most charge a release fee, a few drag their feet. We'll write the request letter on your behalf, follow it up if needed, and cover the release fee up to £200/title. Once we have them, your masters live in your Imprint file vault — version-controlled and downloadable any time.
Of course — there's no exclusivity clause and no contract. Some publishers run hybrid arrangements (us for short runs and reprints, big printer for occasional 5,000-copy releases) for years. We'd rather earn each book on its merits than lock you in.
No problem. Finish that run with your current printer; switching only applies to future jobs. We can spec your in-flight title in our system today so you have a quote ready for the next reprint when you need it.
That's exactly what the "100 copies on us" offer is designed to test. You receive the books, hold them next to your last run from your current printer, decide for yourself. We're confident enough in the comparison to underwrite it.
Once you have a title in your Hub with files and spec confirmed, you fill in the distribution metadata fields once (publication date, retail price, subject codes, blurb). Click "Export ONIX" and you get a compliant ONIX 3.0 XML file ready to send to Ingram, Gardners, or any other distributor. Free with every print job — no separate subscription, no per-record fee. (This feature ships in Q2 2026; existing customers get it automatically when it goes live.) Full ONIX deep dive →
No. Each job is a job. We earn the next one by doing this one well. The closest thing to a commitment is our annual rate-lock option — if you commit to a minimum number of reprints in the year, we lock in today's pricing for 12 months. Optional, not required.
A named book specialist on every account — same person for every job, picks up the phone, replies the same day. We're a small enough team that this is genuinely how it works, not a marketing line. Get on a 15-minute call and you'll meet whoever you'd be working with directly.
The first move is yours. Pick whichever feels easiest — invoice match, test print, or file extraction help. Or just book a call and we'll talk through the right starting point for your situation.