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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.

Get a Book Printing Quote
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.

Read more Testimonials
Noname The Feral Cat

Noname, the Feral Cat | Cynthia O’Brien

Fabulous Printing Company for Children's Hardcover Books! I can't recommend this company enough to print your books with. They delivered on every level. Customer service was incredible. Edward emailed me and called me within minutes of an inquiry even over a weekend and holiday or at night.
The final printed product was beyond my expectations.

My Soulmate Noname
Meet children’s book author Cynthia O’Brien!
... Read More about Noname, the Feral Cat | Cynthia O’Brien

Noname Press

Testimonials for Star Print Brokers, book printing and book design
2017-08-25T21:43:09-07:00

Noname Press

Noname The Feral Cat
Fabulous Printing Company for Children's Hardcover Books! I can't recommend this company enough to print your books with. They delivered on every level. Customer service was incredible. Edward emailed me and called me within minutes of an inquiry even over a weekend and holiday or at night. The final printed product was beyond my expectations. My Soulmate Noname Meet children’s book author Cynthia O’Brien! ... Read More about Noname, the Feral Cat | Cynthia O’Brien

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Print on demand publishers & on demand book printing. Instead, print high-quality books on press, and we're reasonably priced!

Print on demand publishers & on demand book printing

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Here’s the scoop on Print on demand publishers & On demand book printing. Are print on demand publishers worth it? Is on demand book printing less expensive? Like many self-publishers you may be confused about what this all means versus printing high-quality books on press … with Star Print Brokers. You think technology may be more advanced. Technology cannot do…
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Patterns, Layers, Brushes and Gradients installation for graphic artists and book designers.

How to Install Patterns, Layers, Brushes and Gradients

| Filed Under: Book Design

Installing Patterns, Layers, Brushes and Gradients in Photoshop or Illustrator. Patterns, layers, brushes, gradients installation. Star Print Brokers prints books and designs books. This is a quick tutorial to make a book’s design that much more appealing. It may be advanced, so it is for accomplished graphic artists, or quick learners! We do not give personal instruction in using Adobe…
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Amazon prints books, but Star Print Brokers prints better books.

Amazon Prints Books, but we Print Better Books

| Filed Under: Ramblings

Amazon Prints books, but did you know … Amazon prints books, as do other print on-demand service providers. Some books print on press, but authors don’t have all the options available to them that Star Print Brokers offers. Nor do they have the expertise in color reproduction, or high-quality bindings. Page sizes, weights and finishes are limited. You can say…
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Black text, text color, CMYK to PMS color explained for book design.

Black Text, Text Color and CMYK to PMS Color

| Filed Under: Book Design

Working with black text, text color and CMYK to PMS color – and how to get it right! Black text, text color and CMYK to PMS color are all sort of the same topic, but there are differences. Avoid costly printing mistakes, or just time revising your files. So, here’s the scoop … Often those designing and laying out books…
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Case binding example. Note the smaller example image of Smyth sewn book blocks, ready for case binding. We also use adhesive instead of Smyth sewing to glue signatures together in a case binding, also called a hardcover book.

Case Binding discussed – Books with a Hardcover

| Filed Under: Book Binding

Case Binding is how we bind hardcover books. Case binding. What is it?  Simply, it is any book binding with a hard cover made from thick binding board, and has a cover wrap material permanently glued to the board. We throw around a lot of terms in bookbinding, whether it be for printing on press, or printing on demand. We…
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