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Self-Publishing books and save to 70 percent. Star Print Brokers custom Book Printing in Asia. We never print in China. Self-publish and Keep more Profit. We stand behind the books we print for Self-publishers, Authors, Indie Authors, and Publishers.
Book Types

Custom Books & Book Types

An overview of the kinds of custom books we print, galleries of books types, and links to options to make your book stand out. We offer professional book design as an option.

Book types, design, custom books with options & bindings

About book types and custom books, options, bindings, and book design.


About book types for custom books … Read about the kinds of books we print. We have categories for the most common kinds of books that we print. But, we don’t stop with this list. If you have a photography book to print, also check out the coffee table book gallery. Are you publishing a coffee table book? See other galleries too for ideas and information.

  • Photography book printing
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  • Cookbook Printing
  • Art & Gallery Book Printing
  • Printing Novels
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  • Childrens board books printing for babies

View examples of custom books that print at Star Print Brokers. We have lots of books to view that we’re printing. Older books retire to the stacks. Need book design? View samples of our work.

See binding styles for different book types. Do you need a book that is landscape instead of portrait? Need a Wire-O book in hardcover or soft cover? Do you need a concealed spine on that Wire-O book? What about a 3-way binding or a journal notebook with an elastic band?

Whatever book type or style you choose, be sure to copyright your book. Add your copyright text to the copyright page. It is the second page of your book, which is a left hand page.


Let’s get down to Book types

Here are just some of the book types …

Click on a button to read about particular book types. Then click on the adjacent gallery button to see covers of books that we print. All of the books can be custom books within their print run. Just ask if you don’t see the style you are looking for! We are always happy to discuss your individual book type or style.

book Type

Coffee Table Books


Photography and art books are also considered coffee table books. They are usually defined by large dimensions and have custom options. The largest size book that we print on press is 11.8 inches wide by 13 inches in length.

About Coffee Table Books
Coffee table books gallery
Custom books. A sample of some of the coffee table books that print at Star Print Brokers. Choose book types and book options.
We print a lot of cookbooks. This is just a small sample and custom books options are available,.
book Type

Cookbooks


We’ve printed many cookbooks over the years. Cookbooks need to have fine process color printing on offset printing presses. We pay special attention to color for a pleasing color match. Food photography must entice the reader to prepare the author’s special recipes!

About Cookbooks
Cookbooks Gallery
book Type

Children’s Books


We print children’s books on offset press with real ink. Sounds simple, right? Many titles are printed on-demand which is usually toner on paper that is output from a digital output devices, not a press. Toner smears and ink does not. Our binding is superior to POD books too. You will never have a two-page spread with the image clipped off in the middle. That may happen with POD books.

We also print small children’s board books too. Always ask, is your provider printing or outputting?

About Children’s Books
Children’s Books Gallery
A sample of just some of the children's books that we print. We print custom books, meaning books with custom options, not personalized printed text.
Printing photography books and custom books since 1999. Choose book types and book options.
book Type

Photography Books


When you decide to print a book, what are you selling? You are selling your finest work in print. Only the finest quality color reproduction, paper stock, binding materials, and likely a few options are what most photographers demand. We print books for amazing National Geographic photographers. If they are printing multiple book titles with Star Print Brokers over the years, then know that we will treat your books with the same level of care and expertise.

About Photography Books
Photography Books Gallery
book Type

Art Books, a book type


Some artists come to us directly. Sometimes it is a gallery that prints books for one of the artists they represent. We work with small museum too. Often a gallery or museum needs a art catalog displaying upcoming exhibitions, but they want the best color reproduction to match the art work as closely as possible. That is why they reach out to Star Print Brokers. Our clients include galleries and artists in New York, San Francisco, Brussels, and other cities in the USA and Europe.

About Art Books
Art Books Gallery
We love to print art books, especially when color is so critical and we love custom books. Choose book types and book options.
Request a quote for book printing. Choose book types and book options in your process..
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… and More!


Don’t let this short list of book types stop you! We print all kinds of books, and have since 1999. Just ask us about another book type, binding, or option. We are here to produce the highest quality books available at a low unit cost. Don’t forget that we design books, but we only design for the books that we also are printing. We almost always provide a same day response with a ballpark quote. The estimator usually responds within hours. Request a book printing quote now right now!

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Printing on press and options for customs Books

Custom books with options make a book special

View custom options and embellishments. Are you thinking about extras like French Flaps, a French fold dust jacket, or foils? We have bronze foils, blue foils, and more, in matte or gloss. Add a ribbon marker, select from many cloth textures and colors. Add bumper boxes, slip cases, belly bands, sleeves, and more. We manufacture custom books with these options, and so much more with all the book types we offer! Expertise in book printing, binding, and color reproduction, make Star Print Brokers the best in book printing. You have options such as a standard book jacket or a French fold dust jacket, French flaps on a soft cover book, foil stamping, a book slip case, book sleeve, a book belly band, elastic band journal notebook, tip-on image, sewn-in ribbon bookmark, custom sized bumper box, and more!

French flaps on a soft cover book for custom books. Premium book prnting in Asia.
French flaps
A book jacket has a trimmed edge at the top and bottom. It is standard, if you wish a dust jacket. Nice for custom books.
Standard book jacket
French fold dust jacket has of folded edge on the top and bottom. It is optional and costs more than a standard dust jacket. Another one of our options for custom books. Premium book printing in Asia, never in China.
French fold dust jacket
Endpaper or endsheet, also called endsheets or ends, are glued to the inside front and back cover of a hard case book. A design on endpapers is great for custom books.
Endpapers printed with a pattern
Foil Stamping or blind stamping are options for custom books
Foil Stamping or blind stamping is an option.
Ribbon marker - Ribbon Bookmark in various width and colors. We have more to make custom books!
Ribbon marker options
Head and tail bands are the little pieces of colored twine found on the top and bottom of the spine of hard case, hardcover books. Color choices for custom books.
Head & tail bands options
A tip on, tip-on image for this hardcover binding is a permanent adhesive sticker placed on the cover. It is yet another option for custom books..
Tip-on image
Book sleeve option for hardcover or soft cover books.
Book sleeve
Ctrl Alt Del comic is a set of 3 hardcover custom books in a slip case.
Ctrl Alt Del – 3 hardcover set in slip case
Bumper box for books. Bumper boxes add to your branding for custom books.
Bumper box
Book belly band option. A belly band is a paper strip that wraps around the book. Print custom books.
Belly band around a book
This is Smyth sewn binding, but before the book is fully bound
Smyth sewn signatures
Book Options Gallery

Become familiar with binding styles

Hardcover, Softcover, Wire-O & more …

A gallery of binding styles start below. Even with our Wire-O books, we print and bind standard, concealed, and semi-concealed Wire-O bindings. Read more about a particular binding style. We can do custom binding for a print run. Let us know if you have any questions.

Hardcover binding for books. Hardcover books have a hard case at Star Print Brokers..
Hardcover (Available with printed cover, cloth, or bonded leather
Soft cover book binding. Also known as paperback books at Star Print Brokers.
Soft cover (paperback)
Wire-O binding that can be used on a hardcover or soft cover book. The spine is open, with no title on it, at Board books at Star Print Brokers.
Standard Wire-O (Conceal and Semi-conceal available in hardcover or soft cover
Concealed Wire-O binding can be on a hardcover or soft cover book. It is shown here on a hardcover cookbook. Great custom books.
Concealed Wire-O
Semi-concealed Wire-O binding.
Semi-concealed Wire-O
Board books at Star Print Brokers.
Board books
Elastic band notebook journal in hardcover binding.
Elastic band notebook journal
Hardcver binding. Printed covers for this cover wrap. It is glued down to the boards of a hardcover book. You can see where the cover bends on the left side. A dust jacket is different and not shown here. It is loose, and is folded over the book.
Hardcover (printed cover wrap)
Cloth cover wrap is for a hardcover book binding. Cloth comes in quite a few textures and colors. Some cloths even have a woven pattern. We have so many more options than print on demand or POD books.
Hardcover (cloth)
Perfect bound book binding.
Soft cover (paperback) PUR glue
Saddle stitch means to be stapled
Saddle stitch (stapled)
Binding styles Gallery

Design for press by Nancy Starkman, author of “Book Design: Simple & Professional”

Professional design and custom books is an option

Yes, we offer professional book design. We also fix designs by self-publishers or graphic artists who are not quite up to speed with their book design skills. Authors often come to us when they hire a trained graphic artist or simply a desktop publisher with no traditional book experience. Book are a different beast. It’s not like designing a brochure or POD book. Few schools offer book design specifically, which is why Nancy Starkman wrote Book Design: Simple & Professional. She can design your book, or authors can hire her to fix books that they know need a professional re-design or simple fixes.

An American Tale of Freedom's Promise
An American Tale of Freedom’s Promise
Book Design Simple & Professional for custom books
Book Design Simple & Professional
For the Record with a hardcover binding and a dust jacket. Beautiful custom books.
For the Record
Stephanie Bernheim From Paint to Pixels. Premium offset book printing in Asia.
Stephanie Bernheim From Paint to Pixels
Searching for Sweet Home. Book printing at Star Print Brokers.
Searching for Sweet Home
Happy Love Sprinkles
Happy Love Sprinkles
Wisdom from the Wilderness
Wisdom from the Wilderness
If You Could Ask Your Dog One Question. Book printing in Asia by Star Print Brokers.
If You Could Ask Your Dog One Question
Kit White - Line Into Form
Kit White – Line Into Form
High Altitude Paradise by James T. Williams is a book that SPB designed and printed.
High Altitude Paradise
Seasons of Nauvoo. Premium offset book printing in Asia.
Seasons of Nauvoo
In Search of the Light, a children’s book by Leonard Jacobson, illustrated by Fiammetta Dogi.
In Search of the Light
Dogs Tell Their Stories, words by Rex Paul Martin, photographs by Marcy Merrill, a hardcover coffee table book.
Dogs Tell Their Stories
Great Gray Owl
Great Gray Owl
Aspen Cooks - Recipes from the Thrift Shop of Aspen
Aspen Cooks- Recipes from the Thrift Shop of Aspen
Sweater 101
My Yacht Designs and the Lessons They Taught Me by Chuck Paine
My Yacht Designs and the Lessons They Taught Me
Venice Beach Heart & Soul
American Astrophilately - The First 50 Years. Custom books with French flaps.
American Astrophilately. Interior designed and cover typography at SPB.
book Design Gallery

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