Products — Coffee Table & Art
Coffee table and art book printing on 128–200gsm art paper: Smyth sewn blocks that open flat, layflat binding for panoramic spreads, cloth cases, jackets and slipcases — run on Heidelberg presses and checked against your proofs. Factory-direct from Guangzhou since 1995.
Monographs, catalogs, brand books and albums share one discipline: paper, ink and binding chosen to serve the picture. Select a format to see it.
Reproduction is a chain: paper, ink density, sewing, binding. A weak link anywhere shows on every spread. These are the parts we control in-house.
128–200gsm coated stock chosen against your imagery — weight, whiteness and surface tested with printed samples before you commit.
Sheets pulled and read against contract proofs through the run. Supply CMYK files from 300dpi sources and we hold the press to them.
Signatures sewn through the fold, so heavy art paper opens without cracking the spine and spreads sit flat under the hand.
Mounted-spread construction that opens dead flat at every page — a panoramic image runs across the gutter with nothing lost to the fold.
Cloth and linen cases, printed jackets, slipcases and foil stamping — the outside built to the same standard as the plates.
Matt, gloss and soft-touch lamination, spot UV, and anti-scuff matt for dark covers that would otherwise mark in handling.
Fold-out spreads, tipped-in plates and short inserted sections, planned at imposition so they land where the design needs them.
Large trims need heavier board, deeper spines and careful grain direction — engineered so a big book still opens and closes squarely.
Photographers, galleries and brands increasingly publish their own books rather than wait for a publisher's list. A monograph sells at the exhibition, a hospitality book sits in every room, a brand book outlasts any campaign — the object itself does the work.
We produce these runs factory-direct: a physical prototype before you open preorders or launch a crowdfund, then a short premium run sized to what you can actually sell.
Start with a prototypePhotographers and artists set the trim, paper and sequence themselves — we handle the translation from files to sheets.
Hotels, studios and houses commission books that stay on the table for years — a longer life than any brochure.
A bound proof in 3–5 days, in your chosen materials, before you show backers or buyers anything.
Editions typically start from a few hundred copies — small enough to sell through, finished well enough to keep.
Color, paper and binding decisions that decide how an art book turns out.
Screens mix light in RGB; presses lay ink in CMYK, a smaller color space, on paper that reflects rather than glows. Saturated blues, greens and oranges shift the most. Convert to CMYK from 300dpi sources, judge color on a calibrated proof rather than a monitor, and the surprises largely disappear.
Digital proofs settle layout and content first. Then a physical proof — 3–5 days — puts your images on the actual paper, and for color-critical work we pull press proofs of key spreads. You approve against something you can hold, and production is matched to it.
Yes, with planning. Smyth sewn books open well, but a few millimetres still curve into the spine, so we advise keeping faces and critical detail off the fold or duplicating a sliver of image either side. For panoramas that must read perfectly flat, layflat binding removes the gutter altogether.
Gloss gives deeper blacks and more saturated color, and suits high-contrast photography. Matt reads quieter and more contemporary, kinder to text and fingerprints, at a small cost in punch. Many books mix finishes by section; we send samples of both printed with real imagery so you decide by eye.
Runs typically start from a few hundred copies. Offset make-ready is a fixed cost, so unit price falls steeply as quantity climbs and then flattens — 1,000 copies rarely cost twice what 500 do. We quote several quantities side by side so you can see where the curve rewards you.
Each book is wrapped or shrink-filmed, cornered where finishes demand it, and packed in double-wall export cartons at weights a person can lift. Cartons are palletized and strapped for sea freight, with carton marks matched to your warehouse's receiving requirements.
Trim size, page count, paper, binding and quantity — or just what you know so far. A factory quote comes back within 24 hours.
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