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Start with a Quote.

Get a Book Printing Quote

Choose your custom options. We'll consult with you and discuss options. Ballpark quotes are same day. Firm quotes in 24-48 hours. Samples of books we've printed as well as many references are available.

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Optional Book Design

Optional Book Design

We can professionally design your book for an additional cost, or we will work with you or your book designer to provide guidance. Get a book design quote to compare cost and quality.

Get a Book Design Quote
Send us the PDFs.

Submit PDFs for Printing

Send us your files, or just your PDFs. Use our FTP site, DropBox, or whatever you like to use. You can also email if the PDFs aren't too large, or mail / FedEx / UPS to our offices.

FTP Instructions
Approve the proofs.

Approve Physical Color Proofs

We send you a full set of digitally output color proofs for you to approve, and to keep. Press proofs are available, but be sure to select that options on your request for quote.

Approving proofs
We Print your books, Bind, and prep to Ship.

Print Books, Bind and Prepare to Ship

We print on printing presses, in signatures. Books are well-bound as they must be secure. No pages fall out, ever! We can bind so that reference books or cookbooks lay flat, even hardcovers.

Print, Bind, and prep to Ship
Approve Advance Copies.

Approve 5 Advance Copies

The books are bound and put in cartons that are custom made for your books. The cartons go on pallets. We send 5 copies from the press run. Approve them promptly, so the shipment can release.

Advance Copies
DDP Delivery to Door

Book Delivery to Door

After approval, the books are shipped Delivered Duty Paid (DDP) to your door. We include all foreseeable costs in our quotes, including duty and customs, which we handle for you.

About Book Delivery
Your Website, Social Media and Marketing.

Website, Social Media, Marketing

Unless you have a network of buyers, create a website before design or printing. It takes time to build an email list, and find followers on social media. Marketing is ongoing, even with major publishers.

Free Marketing Guide
Open an Amazon Account

Open an Author Account at Amazon

You print with us for the best quality books. List your title on Amazon because it has the most traffic. Choose keywords that tie into your Author Page, and your website.

Star + Amazon

Especially for Self-Publishers

We cater to self-publishers and small publishers to want better book than on-demand providers can provide. We offer hard-to-find custom options, highest-quality book print and color reproduction, and at a reasonable cost.
Book Printing on Press - always High Quality

High-Quality Book Printing on Press

We are based in Bellevue Washington, and print on high-end presses — mostly in Asia — for US authors. Special attention is paid to color to match the proof. You can make corrections too.

Book Printing with SPB
Accurate CMYK Color

Accurate CMYK Color

We print from your files or PDFs. You will see a proof before we go to press. What is in your files, is what we print. Staff will give you practical advice, if asked. Also, see our Prepress Guide too.

Use Our Prepress Guide
Nearly any Size Book

Almost Any Size Book

Limited to specific sizes? Not here! Your book is manufactured in almost any dimension you wish. As a rule, our limit is 12 inches wide. Other than that, we can usually accommodate your title on press.

Deciding on Book Dimensions
Options that are often Hard to Find Elsewhere

Hard-to-find Custom Options

We pride ourselves on all the specialty items and embellishments we offer. That is what makes us stand out ... and the cost ... and the quality ... and the color ... you get it, Now get creative!

Many Book Options to see
Asia or USA Book Printing

Asia or USA Book Printing Services

With our select vendors, we print in Asia for USA authors, and authors everywhere. Our Asia books are higher quality and lower cost than USA; and as much as 70 percent less! USA printing is a little faster.

Asia & USA Choices
We Fix Design, or Create Original Book Design

Professional Book Design

We design books, and we also fix books designed by others. We are professional book designers, creating a style just for you. We will also work with you or your designer.

Award Winning Book Design

Why Star Print Brokers?

We print and design books for many self-publishers — just like you — since 1999.

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Gone Dogs - a book printed by Star Print Brokers.

Gone Dogs

Just wanted to let you know we launched Gone Dogs today and we could not be more pleased with the quality of the book. The entire process of figuring out how to self-publish a coffee table book has been pretty excruciating, but once we found you, a huge part of it became much much better. Star Print Brokers delivered on every front and then some.

Thank you for helping us produce such a stunning product, and thank you for being so easy to work with.

Please add me the top of your list of references. I would be delighted to be able to help a future client of yours decide to use Start Print Brokers.

Warmest regards,
Laurie (& Jim)

Jim Mitchem and Laurie Smithwick

Testimonials for Star Print Brokers, book printing and book design
2019-08-21T07:31:57-07:00

Jim Mitchem and Laurie Smithwick

Gone Dogs - a book printed by Star Print Brokers.
Just wanted to let you know we launched Gone Dogs today and we could not be more pleased with the quality of the book. The entire process of figuring out how to self-publish a coffee table book has been pretty excruciating, but once we found you, a huge part of it became much much better. Star Print Brokers delivered on every front and then some. Thank you for helping us produce such a stunning product, and thank you for being so easy to work with. Please add me the top of your list of references. I would be delighted to be able to help a future client of yours decide to use Start Print Brokers. Warmest regards, Laurie (& Jim)
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Testimonials for Star Print Brokers, book printing and book design

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Book paper weight choices, offering more custom options for self-publishers.

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Yes, we have Book Paper Weight choices, and Self-publishers have choices in finishes too. Book paper weight that is available at on-demand services is limited compared to what we provide at Star Print Brokers. They commonly have book paper weight sizes of 60 lb, 70 lb, or 80 lb text weight. We offer heavier book paper weight that you can’t get at on-demand…
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We stand behind our full color book printing.

Full Color Book Printing We Stand Behind

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Full Color Book Printing that you can count on, or we make it right! As book printing brokers, we offer full color book printing. We must deliver reasonably priced or low-cost book print manufacturing. Expert workmanship and bindings or expected. But, most importantly, self-publishers need someone who will really stand behind high-quality print and bind services. We really do. Star represents only…
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Compare book delivery costs in printing quotes. Are delivery costs added?

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Book delivery is almost always included at Star Print Brokers. Next in How it Works >> Yes, book delivery to the door is included unless stated otherwise in the quote. But, often book printers leave off delivery in their printer quotes, or include it as an extra line item. Book Printer Quotes need to be Compared When you receive book…
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InDesign bleeds and margins for white space. Troubleshoot your files.

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InDesign Bleeds, Printers Marks, and Margins for White Space. InDesign bleeds, printers marks, and margins are often not set-up properly to print well on press. Troubleshoot InDesign bleed problems and printers marks to save time. Create a better book! Typically, we see books in PDF form, provided to us as ready to print. We may find problems with files set-up by designers who have never worked on quality books….
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