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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

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

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 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

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 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

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

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 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

The Highest Quality at a Lower Unit Cost

We cater to authors, self-publishers and small publishers who want better than on-demand books.
SPB offers hard-to-find custom options — the highest-quality book printing —
fine color reproduction — beautifully bound books — and all at a reasonable cost.

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

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

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

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 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

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


Testimonials

Custom — Custom — Custom. Get options not found elsewhere.
We print and design books for many self-publishers — just like you — since 1999.

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Vines & Vision - Words by Matt Kettman, Photography by Macduff Everton

Vines & Vision Testimonial

Vines & Vision, The Winemakers of Santa Barbara County. Words by Matt Kettman, Photography by Macduff Everton. "Mil gracias - a thousand thanks - for another wonderful production. The printing is gorgeous. We’ve been so busy distributing the book, in small and large lots, for us, 7,000 books is a lot, especially during a pandemic, we haven’t had a chance to thank you properly. We unloaded at a winery, and they preferred only we came inside so we meet everyone outside. Yesterday my iPhone showed I walked over 21,000 steps carrying 4 tons of books from the winery outside to be picked up. Carrying the books feels like a Zen ritual." A few photos can be viewed in the Color Book Printing category See Vines & Visions - The Winemakers of Santa Barbara County.

Editor's note: Vines & Vision is 2 inches thick and 7,000 copies meant two full container loads. Thank you Macduff Everton, Matt Kettman, and Mary Heebner. It is an honor to print this incredible book. You can buy the book at the Vines & Vision website.

Words by Matt Kettman, Photography by Macduff Everton

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Words by Matt Kettman, Photography by Macduff Everton

Vines & Vision - Words by Matt Kettman, Photography by Macduff Everton
Vines & Vision, The Winemakers of Santa Barbara County. Words by Matt Kettman, Photography by Macduff Everton. "Mil gracias - a thousand thanks - for another wonderful production. The printing is gorgeous. We’ve been so busy distributing the book, in small and large lots, for us, 7,000 books is a lot, especially during a pandemic, we haven’t had a chance to thank you properly. We unloaded at a winery, and they preferred only we came inside so we meet everyone outside. Yesterday my iPhone showed I walked over 21,000 steps carrying 4 tons of books from the winery outside to be picked up. Carrying the books feels like a Zen ritual." A few photos can be viewed in the Color Book Printing category See Vines & Visions - The Winemakers of Santa Barbara County. Editor's note: Vines & Vision is 2 inches thick and 7,000 copies meant two full container loads. Thank you Macduff Everton, Matt Kettman, and Mary Heebner. It is an honor to print this incredible book. You can buy the book at the Vines & Vision website.
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Book Cover Dimensions (for Cover Wrap)

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Book Cover Dimensions for Hardcovers. Setup for book cover dimensions, for the cover wrap, in InDesign Book cover dimensions … we are getting technical here, but find that book cover dimensions are a source of confusion. Let’s slog through it together. Hardcover book cover dimensions may differ among printers. A measurement template to use for book cover dimensions is needed for any hardcover…
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The Prepress Guide for preparing files to print on press.

Prepress Guide (Essentials for Book Prep)

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The Essential Prepress Guide. Prepress Guide Helpful Hint 1: When you first set-up a book file in InDesign, make sure that you check “Facing Pages”. You can find it by going to File > Document Setup. Prepress Guide Helpful Hint 2: The crop marks, bleed marks, and printer’s marks are generated when making the PDF, not in the InDesign file….
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4 Social media best practices tips. It starts with brand building for the book or author.

Social Media Best Practices for Authors

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Social Media Best Practices for Authors and Self-publishers Social media best practices starts with brand building for your book. A professionally designed cover can go a long way in attracting readers, and is the basis for promotion, along with your synopsis, excerpt, reviews, or any other promotional text to build your brand. Authors want to start promoting their book as soon…
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Amazon prints books, but Star Print Brokers prints better books.

Amazon Prints Books, but we Print Better Books

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Amazon Prints books, but did you know … Amazon prints books as do other print on-demand service providers. Some books might 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. Digitally output…
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Book cover layout measurements and diagram explained for a soft cover, paperback book.

Book Cover Layout (Soft Cover Books)

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Book cover layout explained for Soft Cover book. They are created in InDesign. Measurements for paperback book cover layout and how to read them A book cover layout is essential when printing a book. Soft cover books, also called paperbacks, and hardcover books require different layout measurements. Star Print Brokers will supply the measurements in the form of a diagram. We first…
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