Perfect for CD Cover Inserts

Remembering the good times! If you have a photo album saved on your disc, this is the perfect time to create a custom stapled CD booklet. Whether you want to print CD inserts, or create cheap custom booklets that are stapled, we offer many options and sizes. Our CD booklet printing comes in different paper types, and from 8 to 320 pages.

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Format Guide

CD Booklets

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Page Count Guide

How to Choose the Right Page Count

With booklet printing the cover pages are always counted separately, even if printed on the same paper as the inside pages (self-cover). The 4 cover pages are:

  • The front cover
  • The inside of the front cover (usually used for the table of content or kept blank)
  • The inside of the back cover (usually used for the imprint, copyright notes, index or further editorial notes. May also be left blank)
  • The back cover

For technical reasons the entire page count must always be devidable by four. Thus, please count your content pages, add 2-4 cover pages and in case you're ending up with a number not devidable by four, please round up to the next available page count by adding blank pages to your layout.

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Paper Guide

80 lb. Text Stock Gloss

Our lightest and most economical paper. Its glossy finish on both sides guarantees a high-quality final product. Excellent brightness for vibrant colors. Indoor use only.

80 lb. Text Stock Matte

Lightweight, smooth and glare-free, achieves better color contrast. Economical and aesthetic option, easy to hand out. Indoor use only.

100 lb. Text Stock Gloss Premium

Premium medium weight paper stock with a glossy finish on both sides for popping colors. Resistant to markings and fading. Most common paper for Booklets and Magazines, Brochures or Posters. Indoor use only.

100 lb. Text Stock Matte Premium

Premium medium weight paper stock. Coated on both sides with a smooth matte finish for an elegant overall appearance. Enhanced durability due to its thickness. Indoor use only.

120 lb. Text Stock Gloss Premium

Perfect compromise between flexibility and rigidity. Glossy thicker medium weight paper stock with a shiny finish on both sides. High brightness for guaranteed outstanding printing results. Indoor use only.

120 lb. Text Stock Matte Premium

Elegant and exclusive matte paper option with a dull finish on both sides for enhanced readability. Appealing thickness and flexibility, durable, high brightness, nonglare. Indoor use only.

120 lb. Offset Uncoated

Heavy weight white bond paper with excellent brightness, Uncoated on both sides. Colors may appear dull for a vintage effect. It has a more natural feel and allows you to write on it. Sturdy but still flexible. Indoor use only.

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Cover Guide

Self Cover

The cover pages will be printed on the same paper as the inside pages.

100 lb. Text Stock Gloss Premium

Light weight cover stock with a glossy finish on both sides for popping colors. Resistant to markings and fading. This cover paper is identical to the correspondent inside paper of the same name.

100 lb. Text Stock Matte Premium

Light weight cover stock. Coated on both sides with a smooth matte finish for an elegant overall appearance. This cover paper is identical to the correspondent inside paper of the same name.

120 lb. Text Stock Gloss Premium

Thin, flexibile but rigid cover paper of medium weight with a modest shiny finish on both sides. High brightness for guaranteed outstanding printing results. This cover paper is identical to the correspondent inside paper of the same name.

120 lb. Text Stock Matte Premium

Appealing and exclusive medium weight matte cover paper with a dull finish on both sides for enhanced readability. Appreciable thickness and flexibility, durable, high brightness, nonglare. This cover paper is identical to the correspondent inside paper of the same name.

12 pt. Card Stock Gloss

Durable material with glossy finish for a likable feel. Its medium weight and best quality enhance vibrant colors and highlight every detail of a design. Most common cover stock for catalogs and magazines.

12 pt. Card Stock Matte

Durable cardstock paper with a matte and elegant finish on front and back. Great readability, smooth touch. Scratch and dust resistant matte aqueous coating to avoid fingerprints and scoring.

14 pt. Card Stock Gloss

Sturdy and medium weight card stock with a glossy finish on back and front for excellent photo-realistic images and high color fidelity. Great paper volume, pleasing brightness, excellent opacity.

14 pt. Card Stock Matte

High quality cardstock with a smooth satin matte finish on back and front. Provides a sophisticated product, in muted hues, and easy to read even in full text. Very high brightness, feels great to the touch. Includes matte aqueous coating to avoid fingerprints and scoring.

16 pt. Card Stock Gloss

Heavy weight glossy card stock of premium quality with a slightly shiny finish for popping colors and awesome color saturation. This paper has a significant volume, homogeneous surface and appealing brightness.

16 pt. Card Stock Matte

Premium quality, heavy weight card stock with a slick and elegant surface for a pleasant feel between the fingers. Its quality prevents colors from fading when handed from hand to hand. Includes matte aqueous coating to avoid fingerprints and scoring.

18 pt. Card Stock Matte

Ultra heavy weight premium quality card stock, which comes with a elegant matte finish plus a durable matte aqueous coating to protect from scratching and to prevent fingerprints. Extremely smooth and uniform surface provides awesome haptics. Authentic image reproduction, nonglare appearance. Perfect fit as a cover to uncoated inside pages of booklets.

14 pt. Card Stock Offset Uncoated

Medium weight uncoated cover paper with a uniform structure and a great feel between your fingers. Colors may appear dull for a vintage effect. Comes with a substancial level of whiteness and a great paper volume. All purpose option for text, graphics and images.

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Finish Cover Guide

Aqueous Coating Matte

Water-based matte protection layer to improve the durability of the product and to deter dirt and fingerprints. Increases scuff-resistance of the printing color for items going through many hands or being otherwise exposed to high abrasion.

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Binding Guide

Saddle Stitched
Perfect Binding

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Color Front/Back Guide

Full Color Printing on Front & Back

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$136.50

Standard

$175.60

 

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Estimated Delivery Date: Friday, June 16, 2023
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Perfect for CD Cover Inserts

Remembering the good times! If you have a photo album saved on your disc, this is the perfect time to create a custom stapled CD booklet. Whether you want to print CD inserts, or create cheap custom booklets that are stapled, we offer many options and sizes. Our CD booklet printing comes in different paper types, and from 8 to 320 pages.

File Specifications & Templates

Click here to see instructions for bleed, margin, colors, etc. or to download one of our free templates for your design.

Click here to see instructions for bleed, margin, colors, etc. or to download one of our free templates for your design.

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File Specifications

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Bleed Format

Please ensure your file has the following dimensions:

4.95'' x 4.95''

After printing we will trim off a 0.10'' bleed on each side. Any background elements or color should reach into this bleed area and last till the very edge of the file. Text and other important graphic elements should keep a safety distance to the inside.

Trim Format (Final Product Format)

Your product will be delivered with the following dimensions:

4.75'' x 4.75''

File Dimensions

Please first choose a format from the calculator to see the exact file dimensions.

Bleed 0.1'' (1/10'')

This margin is essential to compensate trimming tolerances. The bleed will usually be trimmed off completely. Please ensure that background images and any bleed objects, which are supposed to reach to the edge of your page, extend into this margin to avoid thin white edges after trimming.

Safety Area 0.08'' (1/12'')

Additionally, please ensure that text and other important graphic elements are positioned at least 0.08'' away from the bleed to the inside. In most cases it doesn't look aesthetically if text stucks too closed to the edge.

Resolution

We print with a 177lpi screen, which provides a resolution of 354 dpi. In order to obtain best results, your file should have a resolution of at least 300 dpi (dots per inch). Files for large formats, like for instance posters, may go below this threshold, however, in no case your resolution should be less than 150 dpi.

Color settings

CMYK is the standard color mode for full color offset printing. Thus, please use the CMYK color mode when creating your file. If, however, we receive files with any different color setting, our system will automatically convert them to CMYK. This may result in slight color deviations which will not be accepted as complaints since we cannot know the original color you had in mind. To avoid color issues, please use our color profile available further down this page.

Inking

The total of the percent values of the four color channels Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black must not exceed 300%. If it does, it will cause an above-average ink application and may not dry properly. As a consequence your printed products may stick together and tear on separation.
For black or gray color please only use the K channel (K = key = black). If your fonts are using three or more color channels, shadows may appear on the prints making the text difficult to read.
To obtain a deep saturated black of strokes and fillings, 40% Cyan and 100% Black are adequate (40/0/0/100). Alternatively you may also use the values 30/30/30/100.

Fonts

For offset printing, please always use Postscript fonts. In rare cases TrueType fonts may cause issues with many professional printing workflows. If TrueType fonts are unavoidable they should be converted to outlines, paths or curves (this function may have different names according to the used software).

File Formats

We prefer multipage PDF files, alternatively you may send us EPS, JPEG or TIFF files. Adobe Photoshop users should always save their files as JPEG or TIFF. If a Photoshop PDF is required, please use Acrobat Distiller to create the PDF (you may download our Acrobat JobOptions further down this page). Please never save a PDF directly from Photoshop.

Page Order

We need PDF files with their page order exactly as the printed booklets. That means, page 1 of the PDF should be the front cover, page 2 of the PDF should be the inside of the front cover, page 3 the first content page, and so on.... till the second last page being the inside of the back cover and finally the last page the back cover.

Templates

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Our Promise

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We guarantee that you will find the highest quality products. We are motivated by customer satisfaction, and only provide the best experience for our customers.

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Frequently Asked Questions About CD Booklets Printing

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How many pages does a booklet have?
Our stapled booklets start at eight pages, and can be as large as 56 pages. We can print CD inserts with more pages if needed, simply contact our support team to receive a custom quote. Please keep in mind, more than 56 pages will not fit easily into a CD case.
Is it possible to write/draw with a pencil/pen on this booklet?
Our CD cover inserts are all coated papers, therefore it is only possible to write on them with a dry erase marker.
Can I add pockets to the first and last page like a folder?
Unfortunately, our CD booklets do not have this feature.
Would it be possible to use this as a coloring book?
Please note that our CD booklets will be printed on coated paper on which writing will only be possible with a dry erase marker. For a typical coloring book usually uncoated paper is used, please get in contact with our support and we’ll be happy to provide you with a custom quote.
Are there any other binding options besides staples?
For our CD cover inserts, we can only offer this particular binding option. If you are in need of folded CD booklets, with less than eight pages, please take a look at our CD Covers section. For CD booklets with more than 56 pages, please see the perfect binding option in the Booklets & Catalogs section.
Do I have to include content on all four cover pages?
You may customize the design and layout for your printed CD booklets however you like. If you would like to keep certain pages empty, please add blank pages to your pdf as a replacement of those pages.

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I am VERY pleased with my results. The instructions for submission were easy to follow. The pricing is very fair, my booklets arrived ahead of schedule, and most important of it, the quality was beyond my expectation. I wholeheartedly recommend ChilliPrinting!

Printed and shipped fast as lightning!

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I ordered the 14x3.5" accordion brocure. Excellent customer service! Very fast and quality product! I will definitely reorder!

Second order of posters—great product again. Timely and unbeatable price—well packed/shipped. Looking now at the 80 lb text gloss for printing/use as possible wrapping paper—maybe another product line you might promote/carry (might offer 70 lb paper if you do).

The only place that offered the size and number of folds that i could find and the quality and time frame was great. The adobe templates made it easy. We will be ordering again when our stock runs out. Thanks!

Everything went wonderfully! I did have a question when I ordered 2 posters and the Chat provided easy to understand answers right away. Also my order came faster than I thought it would which is always helpful. I'd certainly recommend your services to others.

Working with ChiliPrinting has been great - customer service was prompt and helpful regarding our pre-printing questions and provided strong guidance. We did have a couple of copies of our prints that were scuffed at the top of our boxes. We brought this to customer service's attention, and they promptly helped address the issue, which was great.

Was fully satisfied with the customer service I received, and the final product! Very communicative when I had a question that I emailed, and reassured me that it would be as I wanted.

From product selection, to file setup and delivery, everything was perfect!

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I love the ChilliPrinting experience. The variable pricing based on production and shipping speed is fantastic. And I always love my results.

Booklets came out perfect, quality was very good, and the turnaround was perfect.

The posters we ordered were delivered when they said they wiuld be and were printed on a nice heavy stuck. The print quality was excellent. And the price was the best of any i found amongst wholesale printers online.

I ordered several hundred posters. They were completed ahead of schedule, looked great, and were at an excellent price. One box and its contents got damaged during shipping and ChilliPrinting sent me replacements within a few days. I couldn't ask for anything more. ChilliPrinting rules!

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The turnaround time and quality of these posters I ordered was fantastic. Best deal I've found on the interwebs, thank you Chill Printing!

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Absolutely fantastic customer service. When I read the other reviews I was skeptical because about all of then were so positive and that just cant be true! But it is! I sent an email and got an in depth response ASAP, and my order was quick, fast, easy and best of all affordable! The shipping was secure, and overall VERY satisfied with about everything there is. Thanks!

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The cards came out great. Good quality and good price. Plus, customer service was very helpful on the chat when I had questions about design / ordering.

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I continue to have excellent service and product from ChilliPrinting.

I've ordered twice now, and I love it! Great quality and great price compared to competitors!!!

The posters I receive look great and are good quality. I have never had problems with the ordering process. I have told many colleagues about your great services.

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