Covers for paperbacks or hardback
books can be printed litho on our four-colour Heidelberg Speedmaster or digitally on our Xerox iGen3. Alternatively customers can supply covers pre-printed.
When supplying Biddles with
covers, please ensure that:
The covers you supply are larger
than the pre-trimmed text.
The ISBN is the same inside
the book as appears on the cover.
The spines of covers
align when they
are printed 2-up.
When supplying pre-printed covers for paperback books with
flaps: please allow an additional
10mm at the foot of the cover to allow us to produce
tuck in flaps.
Cover file formats
Our preferred format for cover files is an application file created in Adobe InDesign, QuarkXPress or Pagemaker (up to version 6.5). Please remember to send us any font or image files which should be at least 300 dpi and saved as CMYK. Having application files allows us to easily change spine widths, drop in barcodes etc. on your behalf if required. However we are more than happy to accept a cover file as a print ready PDF.
Job option settings for Acrobat Distiller 7
PC: Using Winzip or a similar package extract the distiller job options file to the following folder on your computer C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Distillr\Settings
Mac: Using StuffIt extract the Distiller job options file to the Adobe Distiller folder in your Applications folder.
Distiller 7 settings for all cover files
Calculating spine widths
If you need help calculating a spine bulk then please use our Spine Width Calculator. To use the calculator please click on the Spine Width Calculator link on the left-hand menu under IN THIS AREA and choose either Paperback or Hardback.
If you need help converting a 10 digit ISBN to 13 digits then please use our ISBN converter. To use the converter please click on the 10 to 13 digit ISBN converter link on the left-hand menu under IN THIS AREA.
Paperback Cover Dimensions
Same size as trimmed size (no flaps), add bleed where necessary
